Singer whose idiosyncratic performances helped the German band Can stretch the limits of experimental rock
June 2021
Jon Hassell: radical musician who studied with Stockhausen and worked with Eno
Alexis Petridis
Jon Hassell, avant garde US composer, dies aged 84
June 2018
All Gates Open by Rob Young and Irmin Schmidt review – in praise of the rock band Can
Whether or not the German experimental band, beloved of the Fall and John Lydon, are the ultimate chin-stroking rock outfit, their albums will endure
May 2018
'I grew up in total ruins': Irmin Schmidt of Can on LSD, mourning and musical adventures
The last founding member of the visionary German band left alive, the 81-year-old recalls how he rejected his Nazi father to find freedom in music
September 2017
Holger Czukay obituary
Holger Czukay, bassist with Can, dies aged 79
January 2017
Jaki Liebezeit obituary
Drummer and co-founder of the pioneering German krautrock band Can
Music blog
Can's Jaki Liebezeit: the man who marched to the beat of his own drum
The late drummer of krautrock band Can influenced the likes of Roxy Music and Talking Heads by restructuring rock’s basic rhythm and drumming like a machine
Jaki Liebezeit, drummer of seminal krautrock band Can, dies at 78
German avant garde rock group announces on Facebook page that drummer died from pneumonia
February 2016
The playlist
Irmin Schmidt of Can's playlist: Swans, Laibach and more
The keyboard-playing founder of Can shares his favourite tracks – by turns interesting, complex and plain weird – for this week’s playlist
August 2014
Future Days review – an absorbing history of Krautrock and 1970s Germany
David Stubbs’s story of Can, Kraftwerk and Germany’s postwar generation is enthusiastic and well researched, writes Ian Thomson
March 2014
Krautrock pioneers Can to release official biography
The two-volume book is a collaboration with Faber Social and is due for release in spring 2016
March 2010
Music blog
Elektronische musik: a guide to krautrock
Jon Savage: It might be more than 30 years old, but krautrock, Germany’s experimental music from the 1970s, still has a freshness that sixth-generation British indie bands can’t match
October 2009
Krautrock: the Rebirth of Germany/Peep Show
Even you don’t like abstract drumming and bands named after God’s genitalia, the story of how krautrock was an attempt to atone for Germany’s past was fascinating, says Sam Wollaston
May 2008
'I always wanted to be different'
They took rock music apart and put it back together in a way no one had ever dreamed of. Matt Bolton meets the original Krautrockers - and the new bands keeping the flame alive
