Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “If you had asked me 50 years ago what I would be doing in a year, I wouldn’t have had an answer,” says Michael Rother over Zoom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rother formed NEU! with drummer and multi-instrumentalist Klaus Dinger in Düsseldorf, West Germany, in 1971. The group’s 1972 ...

Following their performances at Big Ears 2025, Michael Rother (Neu!, Harmonia) and Japanese singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi headed to NYC to play Knockdown Center on Sunday as part of the venue’s ...

Perched inside the recording room at Star Studio in Hamburg, guitarist Michael Rother heard his own playing in a new light. It was a couple days into the four-day session in December 1971 that would ...

This humble musical revolutionary would rather you not use the term "krautrock," but he's not offended by it. Credit: GRÖNLAND RECORDS The first three LPs by the former established the motorik ...

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 ...

Rother goes on to say, “the trio with Florian, Klaus Dinger on drums and myself on guitar only lasted for 5 or 6 months but I remember some truly exciting concerts, and everything that followed in my ...

Rother and Dinger, along with their contemporaries – including Kraftwerk, Faust, Amon Duul II and Tangerine Dream – were post-war children of West Germany, whose ‘economic miracle’ went hand-in-hand ...

Fifty years from the release of their debut album, the music of the German duo NEU! sounds as fresh, intriguing, and arresting as it must have for those early adventurous and curious listeners. NEU!

Michael Rother, founding member of krautrock groups Neu! and Harmonia, has announced a new box set: Solo is out February 22 via Groenland. The box collects Rother’s first four solo records—Flammende ...

Michael Rother of influential German band Neu! has revealed that he is a fan of Oasis track 'I Can See It Now'. The song, which originally featured on the Japanese version of 2005's Don't Believe The ...

Michael Rother, the Neu! co-founder who briefly played in Kraftwerk, has penned a tribute to his old schoolmate Florian Schneider for Uncut. The news of Schneider’s death last week, says Rother, “hit ...