Kraftwerk
German electronic music band
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| 2024 | Release of 'Autobahn' / 'Kometenmelodie 2' single from the Autobahn album |
| December 4 2024 | Announced their Multimedia Tour to coincide with the 50th Anniversary of their first album, collaborating with professional skateboarder Tony Hawk. |
| July 27 2024 | At the Fuji Rock Festival, Kraftwerk performed their first-ever cover song, 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' by Ryuichi Sakamoto, followed by 'Radioactivity'. |
| May 2024 | Performed nine nights at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, presenting one of their eight albums each night. |
| 2023 | Georg Bongartz joins the band as a live video technician, and Henning Schmitz takes over electronic percussion, signaling another evolution of the group. |
| 2023 | Falk Grieffenhagen transitions to electronic percussion, and Georg Bongartz joins as a live video technician. |
| 2022 | Fritz Hilpert leaves the band after being an electronic percussionist since 1990. |
| 2022 | Falk Grieffenhagen concludes his role as live video technician. |
| May 27 2022 | Kraftwerk began a successful North American tour, performing in 24 cities from May 27 to July 10. |
| March 25 2022 | Kraftwerk released the Remixes compilation on CD and vinyl through Kling Klang/Parlophone/WEA labels. |
| 2021 | Release of 'Heimcomputer / Home Computer' single from the album Computer World |
| October 30 2021 | Kraftwerk were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. |
| May 12 2021 | Kraftwerk were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the class of 2021. |
| 2020 | The Guardian ranked 'Ruckzuck' at the tenth spot in their list of thirty 'greatest songs' recorded by Kraftwerk, highlighting its 'driving repetitive rhythms' as 'almost proto-techno'. |
| 2020 | NME ranked Kraftwerk's debut album second-to-last in the band's discography, noting its historical significance despite not being groundbreaking in 'electronica'. |
| 2020 | Planned vinyl releases of the first two albums for Record Store Day were ultimately cancelled. |
| December 21 2020 | Kraftwerk released a Remixes compilation digitally, featuring remixes from 1991–2022. |
| April 21 2020 | Florian Schneider died at age 73 after a brief battle with cancer. |
| 2019 | Stereogum ranked the 1971 Radio Bremen version of 'Ruckzuck' among twenty essential Krautrock tracks, praising Schneider's 'ascent-descent flute intro' as iconic. |
| October 2019 | Kraftwerk were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2020. |
| July 20 2018 | German astronaut Alexander Gerst performed 'Spacelab' with the band via live video link from the International Space Station during a concert in Stuttgart. |
| January 2018 | BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 30-minute documentary 'Kraftwerk: Computer Love', examining how their album Computer World changed people's lives. |
| January 28 2018 | Kraftwerk won their first Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Album for 3-D The Catalogue. |
| May 26 2017 | 3-D The Catalogue was released, available in multiple formats including a 4-disc Blu-ray set with a 236-page hardback book. |
| April 2017 | Kraftwerk announced 3-D The Catalogue, a live album and video documenting performances of all eight albums. |
| 2014 | Received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy. |
| 2013 | Falk Grieffenhagen begins working with Kraftwerk as a live video technician. |
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