If you haven’t been listening to pop radio in the past few months, you’ve missed the rise of two seemingly opposing trends. In a medium in which mediocre singing has never been a bar to entry, a lot ...

On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction plugin became a dominant sound in music, and how the next technical revolution might follow its lead. On The Vergecast: how a simple pitch-correction ...

There are few musical technologies that are as ubiquitous, maligned and misunderstood as Antares’ Auto-Tune. What was conceived in 1997 as a discrete tool for cleaning up vocals and optimizing the ...

Name any hip hop song played on the radio in the past year or so. Did any of the lyrics sound sort of warbly – as if sung by a robot? Chances are, the answer is “Yes.” That’s called Auto-Tune. And now ...

In January of 2010, Kesha Sebert, known as ‘Ke$ha’ debuted at number one on Billboard with her album, Animal. Her style is electro pop-y dance music: she ...

Britney Spears preforms live … Why are the pundits so incensed by her turning to Auto-Tune in the studio? STR/EPA Put Britney Spears into a YouTube search and the third auto-fill on the list is ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Paul McCartney believes John Lennon would have loved using Auto-Tune, the controversial production tool invented nearly ...

In a performance for NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series on Wednesday, T-Pain proved to the world that he’s more than just a human ringtone. “This is weird as hell for me,” he told the audience before ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- The thousands of fans who crowded Sunday evening's T-Pain concert at Bay Fest suggest that reports of Auto-Tune's demise have been greatly exaggerated. The rapper-turned-singer's ...