Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Segments of various Krautrock and Krautrock-influenced album sleeves It first crept into Britain in the early Seventies, a little ...

Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever. In West Germany in the early 1970s ...

Eager to liberate themselves from the legacy of World War II and the looming presence of East Germany, young musicians in several West German cities in the late 1960s and ’70s created a new form of ...

Kosmischer Läufer is so good that it’s largely irrelevant that it’s the fruit of a well-executed hoax. Kosmischer Läufer. This triumphant, all-instrumental collection of (mostly) synthetic baubles, ...

The experimental German band Can was formed in Cologne in 1968. Using elements of rock, jazz, and funk, the influential musicians helped pioneer krautrock, also known as kosmische musik, or cosmic ...

This week, Stereogum are media partners at Berlin's intimate psych-rock festival Synästhesie. To celebrate, we're looking back on a pivotal, deeply influential genre from Germany. For a corner of ...

The late drummer of krautrock band Can influenced the likes of Roxy Music and Talking Heads by restructuring rock’s basic rhythm and drumming like a machine Along with Klaus Dinger, a founder member ...

When underground-rock legend Damo Suzuki contacted Boston psychedelic band Cul de Sac to be his backup band on his current tour, he told them he had three rules: "No improvisation. No rehearsal. No ...

Yet to call krautrock a scene similar to, say, punk rock, is not strictly true. For a so-called genre, krautrock is defined as much by what it's not than what it is. Apart from an inclination for long ...