Prince wowed them at Coachella, said Ann Powers in the LA Times but seemed to point to a music scene in terminal decline. The other headlining acts - The Verve, Portishead, Roger Waters and Kraftwerk for Chrissakes - were also bands way past their creative peak who the mainstream probably consider extinct. Of the younger [...]

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This clip of one of the world’s most influential bands first appeared on daffy British science show Tomorrow’s World in 1974. The rather fuddy duddy voiceover that burbles about musical instruments sewn into jacket lapels can’t ruin this riveting “live” performance. Here Kraftwerk reveal their debt to the Beach Boys and demonstrate just how great [...]

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