In 2025, Kraftwerk, with legendary electro pioneer Ralf Hütter, soon return to North America to commemorate their breakthrough album Autobahn and their first USA Tour, which took place in 1975.
Kraftwerk are pleased to announce 50 Years of Autobahn with their MULTIMEDIA CONCERTS, including a show at The Anthem in DC on Sunday, March 16!
Bringing together music, visuals and performance art, Kraftwerk concerts are a true “Gesamtkunstwerk — a total work of art.” Shows will be held in 25 cities across America and Canada starting on March 6 in Philadelphia and including Coachella festival appearances on April 13 and 20.
In 2009, Kraftwerk released The Catalogue, a box set of eight albums that have shaped the modern American view of the groundbreaking band’s music.
The box set includes the following albums, which have formed the basis for Kraftwerk’s multimedia tours in recent years:
- Autobahn (1974)
- Radio-Activity (1975)
- Trans-Europe Express (1977)
- The Man-Machine (1978)
- Computer World (1981)
- Electric Café (1986)
- The Mix (1991)
- Tour de France (2003)
Watch the official music video for “The Robots” by Kraftwerk from their seminal album, The Man-Machine, on YouTube:
To accompany Kraftwerk’s MULTIMEDIA TOUR announcement comes a special video created by and featuring Kraftwerk fan, modern vertical skateboarding pioneer Tony Hawk and friends.
Watch the Kraftwerk Multimedia Tour announcement on YouTube:
The multimedia project Kraftwerk was started in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. They set up their electronic Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they conceived and produced all Kraftwerk albums. By the mid 1970s, Kraftwerk had achieved international recognition for their revolutionary electronic sound scapes and their musical experimentation with robotics and other technical innovations. With their visions of the future, Kraftwerk created the soundtrack for the digital age of the 21st century. Their compositions, using innovative techniques, synthetic voices, and computerized rhythms, have had a major international influence across an entire range of music genres: from electro to hip hop from Techno to SynthPop. In their live performances, Kraftwerk composer, author, and producer Ralf Hütter illustrates his belief in the respective contributions of both man and machine.
Starting with the retrospective of their catalogue at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012, in recent years Kraftwerk have returned full circle back to their origins within the Düsseldorf art scene of the late ’60s. Most recently, Kraftwerk played eight nights with their eight Catalogue albums at Los Angeles’ famed Walt Disney Hall. In 2014, Ralf Hütter and his former partner Florian Schneider were honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kraftwerk
The Anthem
Sunday, March 16
Doors @ 6:30pm
$79.50-$143.50
All ages
