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 ...

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 ...

It is not just that Kraftwerk invented the future of music; it is that a startling amount of the music you hear today, from the most obscure indie rock to the most mainstream pop to literally every ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider, front, along with bandmates, from left, Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter and Wolfgang Flür, in ...

Kraftwerk is currently on its 3D Concert tour of North America, with a stop planned for the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Wednesday, September 23. The multi-media show includes a performance of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today Kraftwerk are widely – and quite rightly – regarded as the most influential musicians of modern times. A group that ...

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Kraftwerk have spent much of their career blurring the lines between man and machine. They are from a generation that grew up thinking that computers and machines would depersonalize us all and make ...

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 ...

Florian Schneider, who co-founded the seminal German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1970 and went on to become a godfather of genres including synth-pop, hip-hop, electronic dance music and post-rock, ...