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 ...

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 ...

The song was released by a beloved German group.

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 ...

Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider (pictured third from left) has sadly died at the age of 73. As announced by the band in a statement to Rolling Stone, the musician lost a short battle with cancer, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Back then, in the analogue world, we weren’t afraid that computers would replace us; it was more the dream ...

Synth pioneers Kraftwerk are currently on their Multimedia Tour that also doubles as a 50th anniversary celebration of their landmark album Autobahn. They hit NYC last week for shows at Brooklyn’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

Even before a single note of Kraftwerk's eight-night residency at London's Tate Modern is struck, the harmonics are fabulous. Early gigs by these German electronic pioneers routinely took place in art ...

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 ...

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 ...