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 ...

Kraftwerk have shaped the pulse of modern music more than almost any other group. Formed in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and the late Florian Schneider, the Düsseldorf outfit rewired the possibilities of sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago this month, an album was released in the U.S. that proved to be akin to a quake under a placid sea, one that created a ripple that grew into a tidal wave. That album was "Autobahn," ...

Kraftwerk are the founding kings of electronic music. Their venerated 1970s canon - which includes the seminal likes of Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express and The Man-Machine - forever changed 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 ...

On this edition of All Songs Considered, we take a musical journey honoring the genius of Kraftwerk's Florian Schneider, who died May 6, just a few days after turning 73. Kraftwerk's music was so very ...

The post Kraftwerk Make Dazzling Return to Coachella with Retrofuturistic Set appeared first on Consequence. Kraftwerk took the stage at Coachella 2025 on Sunday night for a retrofuturistic, immersive ...

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 ...

Kraftwerk’s “Trans Europe Express” is the most important pop album of the last 40 years, though it may not be obvious. The first high-art electronic pop record, “Trans Europe Express” set the tone for ...