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 ...

Counting Crows first made their mark on the music industry in 1993 with their hit album August and Everything After, pumping airwaves with a thick dose of the addictive “Mr. Jones.” Over the next two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I admit that, before arriving at the NAMM show this week, I didn’t know that Auto-Tune was an actual brand. Like ...

The first thing I saw on Twitter this morning was a video of a cat letting out sweet, little T-Pain yowls. Joaquin Baldwin, a Disney animation artist, had auto-tuned his cat Elton and then made a ...