​Kraftwerk celebrate 50 years of ‘Autobahn’ with North America tour

Kraftwerk have announced a North American tour for 2025, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their fourth studio album ‘Autobahn’.

The 27-stop tour is due to begin on March 6, 2025, at Philadelphia’s Franklin Music Hall, and will continue for almost two months across America and Canada.

Kraftwerk will hit 25 different cities, including stops in Montreal, New York, Miami, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Vancouver, Denver, Nashville, and more. The tour is set to conclude on April 24 at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Texas.

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The legendary German group will also make two festival appearances throughout their North American tour, both shows at the 2025 edition of California’s Coachella.

The tour marks 50 years of Kraftwerk’s seminal 1975 album ‘Autobahn’, which after its release, saw the group tour North America for the very first time.

Kraftwerk’s ‘multimedia concerts’ – which are set to bring together live music, visuals, and performance art – have previously been described as “gesamtkunstwerk”, or “a total work of art”.

In May, the group performed a nine-night stint of shows at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall in celebration of the 50th anniversary of ‘Autobahn’.

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Each night, the group performed their studio albums in sequence. The ninth night saw Kraftwerk perform a compilation of their greatest hits, spanning their 50-year discography.

‘Auobahn’ was composed, produced, and recorded by founding Kraftwerk members Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1974. The album marked their fourth studio record, landing on Philips Records.

Tickets for for Kraftwerk’s 2025 North America tour go on sale on Friday, December 13, at 10:AM. Sign up for presale access here, and check out the full list of tour dates below.

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