Culture Bully — Kraftwerk perform their track Numbers live from the Manchester Velodrome, as part of the Manchester Festival 2009. more info

Perfect Porridge — NYC’s Vinyl Life is sharing this mash between themselves and Kraftwerk to promote their new, self-titled LP coming out August 4 on Vinyl (the only way to listen to a band called Vinyl Life, you know), August 18 on cassette (what?) and September 15 ... more info

Guardian Music — This child's toy was created in the late 60s and later deployed to dazzling effect by Kraftwerk, David Bowie and, er, Rolf HarrisWhat is it? The sound of parents' nightmares in the 70s. The original Dubreq Stylophone – a kind of stylus-operate... more info

German godfathers of electronica peddle their way into the people of Manchester's hearts more info

The Quietus — Amazing scenes... more info

BBC News - UK — German godfathers of electronica peddle their way into the people of Manchester's hearts more info

Rolling Stone — Wilco return with their seventh album, the almost-eponymous Wilco (The Album) this week. Now seven years removed from their 2002 breakthrough Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Jeff Tweedy and crew obliterate all the experimental vestiges from that disc for an al... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Leonel Garcia said...Leonel Garcia - Proceed At Your Own Risk! [2009]My latest album, enjoy!http://leogt.blogspot.comPaulo said...# Snowy White & The White Flames - Restless (2002) - @320# Snowy White & The White Flames - Keep Out - We Are Toxic (199... more info

Guardian Music — In the these hard times of cuts and credit crunches, we want you to suggest songs that lament the effects of unemploymentThere was a point in in compiling this week's playlist, roughly at about post 850, when I was overcome by a transcendent feeling ... more info

Guardian Music — The bikes ... the robots ... the dream of man and machine in perfect harmony. How is the Kraftwerk vision of the future shaping up? Ralf Hütter gives a rare interview to John HarrisThis is how it starts. I dial the arranged number, and a female voic... more info