Various decades have their musical signature, like the excessive use of synthesizers and hairspray in the 1980s pop music scene. Likewise, the early 2010s was marked by a fairly extreme use of ...

In a recent social media post, T-Pain, a prominent figure in the music industry known for his distinctive use of auto-tune, addressed an old photo of Christina Aguilera wearing a controversial T-shirt ...

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 ...

American Idol has already run eight seasons. Since its debut in 2002, watching non-singers belting out of tune has become an amusing addiction. When Karaoke was introduced in the 80's from Japan, it ...

It's Carl Sagan like you've never heard him: his digitized, remixed voice sounds more like something emanating from a radio tuned to a pop music station than from a TV playing a public television ...

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Released late Friday, Jay-Z’s new single, “D.O.A (Death of Auto-Tune),” from the now thoroughly-announced The Blueprint 3, is less a Martin Luther-like cry for hip-hop reformation than an awkward slab ...

Wolf howls! Auto-tune! Random, creepy, nine-second voice-over interlude! This is going to be blasting from my speaker dock from now until forever. You’re welcome. And yes, those are real wolf noises, ...