Step aside, Strip DJs: Electronic music innovators Kraftwerk are coming to town. The genre godfathers will play a show at the Chelsea inside the Cosmopolitan on June 28, marking the first time Kraftwerk has performed in Las Vegas in its 43-year career.
The German innovators, who earned a Lifetime Achievement Awards at this year's Grammy Awards, will incorporate 3D visuals in the show for a multimedia performance that features surround-sound speakers, synchronized audiovisual elements and 3D glasses for the audience. The group recently brought the new show to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, where they performed eight of their classic albums over the course of a week in in March.
Founded in Düsseldorf, West Germany, in 1970 by Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter, the quartet tapped into the programmable beats and tones of early computer technology to create sleek, syncopated songs that helped lay the foundations for new music genres like New Wave, hip-hop and, above all, the electronic dance music dominating Las Vegas nightclubs and pop music charts today.
Tickets for the Las Vegas show cost $40 for general admission and $50 for reserved seating, and go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster and the Cosmopolitan box office.
