Kraftwerk

Charli XCX and Kraftwerk playing back-to-back nights in Austin may as well be billed as a crash course in the history of electronic music. Fifty years before brat, Kraftwerk dropped Autobahn, their five-song, 42-minute fourth album that solidified the Düsseldorf band’s evolution from Krautrock scenesters to minimalist synthesizer innovators. Founding vocalist/keyboardist Ralf Hütter, now the band’s only consistent member, celebrates the project’s golden jubilee with the Multimedia Tour, a reliably inventive trek that combines music, visuals, and performance art. – Carys Anderson