Back in the 1970s, Kraftwerk anticipated the machine-dominated world we now inhabit. We prise open The Man Machine to see how ...

Here are five takeaways that seal the band's legendary Man Machine status - and shed a light on how Kling Klang really ...

Sometimes a new artist changes music entirely. These are three genre-defining one-hit wonders from the 1970s we can't quit.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Kraftwerk percussionist Karl Bartos features in the new issue of Uncut (February 2013, Take 189), out now, discussing the upcoming Kraftwerk retrospective shows in London, and his own new solo ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the German electro pioneers’ landmark album ‘Autobahn’, Kraftwerk’s entire eight-CD catalogue is being remastered and reissued by Mute. Think of German music today, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Up in the second floor’s atrium, a scrim was raised at the appointed hour to reveal the quartet – led by 65-year-old co-founder Ralf Hütter, providing all the vocoderfied vocals – squeezed like ...

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 ...