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 ...

Standing stoically onstage at the Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk ran through their notable music catalogue. Even if you ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. Kraftwerk—the pioneering electronic-music group that débuted more than half a ...

Three weeks later, with the single at 75 on its charts, Billboard went into it a little more. “With all the German avant-garde groups knocking vainly at US doors for the past five years, Kraftwerk is ...

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," ...

No one can accuse the Top-40 radio stations of the mid-1970s of not being eclectic. Take, for example, the Billboard Hot 100 from March 15, 1975. The Doobie Brothers’ uncharacteristic foray into ...

To my ears, there is a depth of emotion to that song’s elegant, heavenly arpeggio that matches the best of the rock and pop music coming out of that era. Kraftwerk’s music bears all of the qualities I ...

Half a century ago, give or take a year, two of the most influential artists of the late 20th century released their respective breakthrough albums, each featuring a very long title track about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Fröhling/Kraftwerk/Getty Images & CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Depending on how much broad-brush history you absorb as ...