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  Roskilde's Epic 2013 Lineup: Queens of the Stone Age, Rihanna, Sigur Ros, Kraftwerk

  April 19, 2013 – Denmark's epic Roskilde Festival will return later this year for nine days (June 29 to July 7) of musical performances from nearly 200 acts. …
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  Kraftwerk Win Bizarre Sampling Lawsuit in Germany: 'Planet Rock' for All

  December 20, 2012 – Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock," the pioneering 1982 single that helped give birth to hip-hop and electro, was based on two Kraftwerk songs, but it didn't technically sample either of them. Instead, Bambaataa and producer Arthur Baker recreated the synthesizer melody and drum-machine patterns themselves. …
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  3D Kraftwerk to Headline Sonar's 20th Anniversary in Barcelona

  November 28, 2012 – Barcelona's Sónar festival today announced the cities and dates for five separate events taking place in the first half of 2013, including the 20th-anniversary edition of the festival in its home base in Barcelona, where Kraftwerk will present a new 3D show.In February, Sónar travels to Reykjavik, Iceland, for the first time with a two-night event including James Blake, Squarepusher, Modeselektor, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, and oth …
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  N.W.A, Kraftwerk, Public Enemy Nominated for Rock Hall of Fame's Class of 2013

  October 4, 2012 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced this year's nominees, and the list offers the hopeful prospect of an increasingly open definition of rock'n'roll. Hip-hop innovators N.W.A and Public Enemy both made the ballot in their first year of eligibility, the only acts to do so this year. As electronic dance music continues to conquer the U.S. …
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  We Are Also the Robots: 8 Essentials of Post-Kraftwerk Pop

  June 22, 2012 – Kraftwerk envisioned popular music's future. A future in which you didn't have to sweat much or get dirt under your finger-nails or master organic instruments; a future free of manual labor and manual dexterity; a future of looped repetition, sleek Teutonic technology, robots, and computers. Then that future came true. …
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  Kraftwerk Invade MoMA for Residency: Byte at the Museum

  April 11, 2012 – Face it, mensches: The concept of Teutonic technologists Kraftwerk performing eight live shows, each based on a single album, at New York's Museum of Modern Art could have packed all the surprises of Wagner's Ring cycle — just substitute robots with computers for the fat lady and the symphony. …
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  Reunited Make-Up May Play a Stateside Show

  February 17, 2012 – A few days ago, beloved D.C. …
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  Kraftwerk Bringing Eight Full-Album Shows to NYC

  February 15, 2012 – In the wake of the Grammys' weirdo mashup salute to electronic music, Kraftwerk have returned to remind EDM-ers from whence they came: The Museum of Modern Art in New York has commissioned an eight-night retrospective, "cleverly" titled "Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8," celebrating the German electronica pioneers' legacy. …
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  'Drive': The Secrets to an Awesome Soundtrack

  September 16, 2011 – Drive, which opens today, stars Ryan Gosling as an unnamed stuntman/getaway driver who gets mixed up with mob, leaving him with no choice but to speed around Los Angeles trying to save his life and that of the woman he loves (Carey Mulligan). …
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  Kraftwerk Co-Founder Leaves Band

  January 6, 2009 – Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has officially announced his departure from the legendary German electro outfit he formed with Ralf Hütter in 1970 [via Billboard.com]. The news comes via a statement posted to the band's fansite: "Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk after a 40 years partnership with Ralf Hütter. This partnership has generated an incredible music and huge advances in music technology. …
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