I was a wee lad with little journalism experience in 1998, when I interviewed German guitar god Michael Rother, who’d cofounded pioneering experimental rock outfits Neu! and Harmonia in the 70s. Not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German guitarist Michael Rother carved his name into the veneer of underground rock 50-plus years ago via a brief stint with Kraftwerk and longer productive (and highly influential) tenures in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following Michael Rother’s 2020 solo album Dreaming is this, his first collaboration with his Italian partner Vittoria Maccabruni. Recorded shortly after Rother’s move to Pisa to join Maccabruni after ...

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 ...

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 ...