L.A. Times - Entertainment — Helena Hauff, "Discreet Desires" (Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune). The music of German electronic composer Helena Hauff sounds recycled from the remains of an abandoned Kraftwerk storage facility, as if the spare parts of old Roland, Moog, Nintendo, ARP and Bu... more info

Stereogum — Big Kraftwerk fan? Want the opportunity to go see them for free? Never been to Bean Town? Here’s your chance! We’re giving away a trip to see Kraftwerk when the legendary German group comes through Boston on 10/3 as part of their 3-D concert tour... more info

Stereogum — George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic collective isn’t always posed as a leading candidate for greatest or most important band of the ’70s, but try and imagine what music would sound like without them. You’d still have Stevie pushing forward... more info

Core News — “Iggy continues in his new Friday night slot serving you up a sonic cocktail to start the weekend off including tracks by Tame Impala, Frank Sinatra and Kraftwerk. Iggy’s musical legacy has inspired and energised rock and roll’s alternative spi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Kornel Kovacs is a Swedish electronic musician who, as he tells it, "grew up listening to his Hungarian parents' Kraftwerk tapes while taking drum, piano and singing classes, fell in love with jungle at the age of 10 and... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos: Kraftwerk @ United Palace Theatre in 2014 (more by PSquared) Kraftwerk are bringing their 3-D concert tour back to North America this fall. No NYC shows this time (they played two nights at United Palace last April), but they... more info

Nialler9 — The Kraftwerk documentary Pop Art screened on BBC4 in the last few days and while it’s not the definitive story of the band itself (it doesn’t really cover a lot of things about cycling, personnel changes or technology to name a few things), it ... more info

The Telegraph — Last week a British university hosted a conference on German electropop pioneers Kraftwerk. Quite right too, says Ivan Hewett more info

The Independent — The electronic music, robot-like performances and repetitive beats of the German band Kraftwerk ushered in a brave new world of pop and earned the group global fame. more info

Stereogum — Kraftwerk are not only a highly influential music group, but their music is prone to obsession and repetition, which makes them perfect candidates to have a whole academic conference surrounding them. The inaugural Kraftwerk academic conference — t... more info