“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 from his partner’s house in Pisa, Italy. Although he would never have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...