Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. 50 years ago, Kraftwerk scored its first hit single around the ...

The musician who helped define a groundbreaking electronic sound and embraced the nickname 'The Robot' celebrates his 79th ...

If you haven't had the chance to see the German legends on their recent tours, this 2xCD live album hints at what you missed. Save this story Save this story When Lester Bangs interviewed Kraftwerk ...

It's near impossible to measure the musical impact and importance of Kraftwerk, so far-reaching and enduring is their influence in the foundations of electronic music. Emerging in the 1970s, the ...

Florian Schneider-Esleben, one half of the German electronic band Kraftwerk, died from complications of cancer, a few days after his seventy-third birthday. Schneider-Esleben was famously ...

Given its title and lyrics, it should come as no surprise that the German electronic band Kraftwerk's 1974 hit "Autobahn," off the Autobahn album, is still recognized as an iconic ...

When Kraftwerk needed a video to match its electronic music nearly three decades ago, the band turned to Rebecca Allen, a pioneer in the field of computer art. Allen was the creative genius at the ...

Imagine an era when mainstream music wasn't filled with synthesizers. When electronic music wasn't a force propelling everything from pop and hip-hop to music from the underground. There was a time ...

I’m standing on a street corner in downtown Dusseldorf, listening to two jolly German musicologists called Michael Wenzel and Sven-Andre Dreyer explaining the genesis of electronic music. It all feels ...

In a trademark fight over "kraftwerk," who has the power? By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large Get out the German translation dictionary because Ralf Hutter has met a machine where coexistence ...

From cycling soundtracks to anti-nuclear protest music, we celebrate the work of the late Florian Schneider and the groundbreaking group he co-founded Kraftwerk’s first new and original music since ...

In the early-to-mid-'70s, the four members of Kraftwerk were still under-the-radar music experimentalists from the art-leaning city of Düsseldorf – a path they never really diverged from. After all, ...