Fifty years ago, German rock groups including Neu!, Can and Kraftwerk created an eclectic sound that had never been heard before. It remains as exhilarating as ever. In West Germany in the early 1970s ...

Eager to liberate themselves from the legacy of World War II and the looming presence of East Germany, young musicians in several West German cities in the late 1960s and ’70s created a new form of ...

Krautrock is an entire secret history of rock unto itself. Krautrock is an entire secret history of rock unto itself, and we don’t have the space here to trace its origins, ephemera and trajectory. (I ...

The experimental German band Can was formed in Cologne in 1968. Using elements of rock, jazz, and funk, the influential musicians helped pioneer krautrock, also known as kosmische musik, or cosmic ...

Weirdness is a requirement if you lay claim to being America’s best krautrock band, and with the end-times dance rock Møtrik makes on their latest LP, Earth, that claim feels accurate. It was largely ...

A new book exploring the Krautrock genre is to be published in March. Krautrock Eruption, a 160 page illustrated paperback ...

Kosmischer Läufer is so good that it’s largely irrelevant that it’s the fruit of a well-executed hoax. Kosmischer Läufer. This triumphant, all-instrumental collection of (mostly) synthetic baubles, ...

This week, Stereogum are media partners at Berlin's intimate psych-rock festival Synästhesie. To celebrate, we're looking back on a pivotal, deeply influential genre from Germany. For a corner of ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

Mr Agreeable once took a holiday in Southern Bavaria and for reasons that remain unclear has been furious at our Teutonic cousins ever since. Therefore tidings of a new book about German experimental ...