Kraftwerk

Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

Alexis Petridis

28, Mar, 2024 @2:23 PM

Forty years of New Order’s Blue Monday: who inspired it and who it inspired

The Mancunians spliced Donna Summer with Ennio Morricone to make a futurist dance smash – and ended up influencing Rihanna, Pet Shop Boys and Detroit techno

Alexis Petridis

07, Mar, 2023 @2:00 PM

From Bowie to Beyoncé: the gateway albums to get into the greatest artists

Keen to explore an artist’s oeuvre but overwhelmed by choice in today’s stream-heavy world? Fear not: from Joni to Fela, Madonna to Miles, our critics tell you which album to begin with

Guardian writers

19, Nov, 2022 @11:00 AM

‘Grace Jones was in a state’: legendary producer Trevor Horn relives his mega-hits

From Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Grace Jones, ABC and Tatu, he gave pop some of its greatest, most forward-looking moments. He also sang for prog rockers Yes. The trailblazing knob-twiddler recalls his best – and worst – decisions

Alexis Petridis

24, Oct, 2022 @4:09 PM

Green Man festival review – the absurd, the wonderful and the otherworldly

From the magisterial glam rock of Yves Tumor to the comedy surf-pop of Melin Melyn, Green Man froths with positivity and subversion

Sophie Walker

22, Aug, 2022 @2:28 PM

Karl Bartos: ‘Kraftwerk turned into the dehumanisation of music’

As the band’s drummer he co-created some of history’s greatest albums – but then the machines took over. As he publishes his memoir he explains how their computer world crashed

Daniel Dylan Wray

03, Aug, 2022 @11:00 AM

Berlin Krautrock exhibition celebrates groundbreaking genre

Posters of Kraftwerk, Neu! and Can span movement’s roots in the counterculture scene of 1968

Philip Oltermann in Berlin

21, Mar, 2022 @5:30 AM

Peter Zinovieff, British composer and synth pioneer, dies aged 88

The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk all used Zinovieff’s EMS synthesisers

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

26, Jun, 2021 @11:13 AM

The Guardian view on Europe by train: virtue signalling | Editorial

Editorial: A continent-wide rail renaissance can play a vital part in the battle to meet net zero climate targets

Editorial

02, Feb, 2021 @6:48 PM

From finger painting to ice-cold perfume: this week’s fashion trends

What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

31, Jul, 2020 @6:00 AM

Electronic at the Design Museum review – a sweaty rave paradise lost

From squat synthesisers to a gyrating cube, a new exhibition dedicated to dance music culture poignantly brings the spirit of communal celebration to a museum

Dorian Lynskey

28, Jul, 2020 @3:33 PM