Every Thursday, the Paste staff and contributors will choose their five favorite songs of the week, awarding one entry a “Song of the Week” designation. Check out last week’s roundup here. Song of the ...

How military conflict has fuelled the development of technology that’s now essential in modern music production When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Acoustic vocoders play a key role in simulating the speech information available to cochlear implant (CI) users. Traditionally, the intelligibility of vocoder CI simulations is assessed through speech ...

Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” is a song that defied the usual release patterns of a pop hit. Originally featured on her 2019 album Lover, it took four years, the collective power of Swifties, and ...

New York grunge revivalists Pretty Sick are shedding their alt-rock skin for a more experimental, electronic sound—a pivot that bandleader Sabrina Fuentes feels she has earned after years of paying ...

Timothy Blake Donohoo is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he majored in Communication and minored in Creative Writing. A professional freelance writer and marketing ...

Never mind AI, we’re getting the robots involved in production, as we demystify vocoders, talkboxes, hard-tuning and harmonisers! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Neil Young’s 1982 electronic album Trans is a polarizing work designed to tear apart a particular perception of his music. His new wave experiment is equal parts krautrock and early synth-pop MTV, and ...

Neil Young released an electronic album one year after New Order’s debut Movement. But Movement still sounds like Joy Division, the post-punk band whose ashes New Order rose from following Ian ...

The term “differentiable digital signal processing” describes a family of techniques in which loss function gradients are backpropagated through digital signal processors, facilitating their ...