From robotic disasters to electronic masterpieces, join us as we explore when vocal processing elevated tracks to new heights ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

Where Did the Posse Cut Go? For decades, rap crews honed their skills in all-star anthems that doubled as moments of unity. In an era built for short singles and solo stars, the posse cut’s communal ...

Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...

It seems as if, in these waning weeks of our Music & Technology series, we've generated a contradiction. And as it has been so many times before, the resolution is -- wait for it -- Kanye West. On one ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Swamp Dogg has tried out plenty ...

We spend most of our days trying to be virtually perfect, so why should we care what singers really sound like? When we go to concerts, we don't bother looking at them. Instead, we hold up our cameras ...

Auto-tune may be popular with some artists, but it's not on the must-have list for Big & Rich. They focus on authentically doing their best instead of relying on tuning to keep them on pitch.

TikTok absolutely loves this incredibly talented husky. It currently has seven million views, 1.7 million likes, 8,839 ...

The sound and feel of modern music was changed forever in the late 1990s when Antares launched its Auto-Tune pitch correction technology. As well as putting some life back into flat performances, the ...

Brian Eno is a tireless champion of music technology, having worked at the bleeding edge of electronic music for five decades. But while he embraces innovation, he remains wary of its pitfalls. In a ...