Tag Archives: Kraftwerk
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REWIND: Going to Coachella? Here’s some recommendations from an old guy
Kraftwerk performs at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, on July 6, 2022. The band is slated to play Coachella next spring. There’s a post making the rounds on Bluesky that shows the Coachella lineup and says, “Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you…
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REVIEW: Kraftwerk goes 3D at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Kraftwerk performs at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, on July 6, 2022. Derek Tobias/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — After more than two years of pandemic-related delays, German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk brought their 3D concert experience to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Wednesday night. The multimedia spectacle was…
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REWIND: The new plan is to become an Excel influencer with these songs
Kat Norton, aka Miss Excel. TikTok screenshots. This week I learned that Excel influencers are a thing on TikTok. It’s possible all the youths know this but as I am brutally, cripplingly old and don’t have TikTok it was news to me that there’s a whole category of influencers…
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The 22 concerts we missed most in 2020, starring Billie Eilish, BTS and Taylor Swift
Among the shows we most regret were canceled or postponed: BTS, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Killers, Mew, Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, BottleRock Napa Valley, Bad Religion, Rage Against the Machine, My Chemical Romance, Bob Dylan, Outside Lands, Kraftwerk, Supergrass, Roger Waters, Tame Impala, The Airborne Toxic…
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In Memoriam: Eddie Van Halen and 24 other artists we lost in 2020
Row 1: Neil Peart, Riley Gale, Martin Birch, Peter Green, Lee Kerslake. Row 2: Ken Hensley, Pete Way, McCoy Tyner, Billy Joe Shaver and Bill Withers. Row 3: Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen, Ennio Morricone, Andy Gill and John Prine. Row 4: Florian Schneider, Fredderick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, Adam Schlesinger, Bones Hillman and…
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Obituary: Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider dead of cancer at 73
Florian Schneider with Kraftwerk. Courtesy. Influential band Kraftwerk on Wednesday announced that pioneering electronic musician Florian Schneider died of cancer a few days after his 73rd birthday in early April. Schneider founded the German group with Ralf Hütter in 1970. The innovative band emerged from West Germany’s Krautrock scene and…
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Avoid the week of love with our jilted editor and these songs
If you’re like me—and odds are either you are or you aspire to be—you don’t really want to be associated with Valentine’s Day. Some people spend weeks festooning everything in cutesy red hearts and some spend those weeks raging against the mere concept with songs about getting dumped. But not people…
