David Bowie is best known for his larger-than-life persona, his flamboyant and culture-changing aesthetics, and his legendary songs. He’s also known for having an unusual voice. Some love it, some don ...

We couldn’t leave out this classic. “Black Hole Sun” comes from the 1994 Soundgarden album Superunknown and is by far the band’s most memorable hit song. It also happens to boast one of Chris ...

Scientists carried out an analysis of hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020 to determine the lead vocal to accompaniment ratio, or LAR. The study considered the four highest-ranked ...

Last month, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury’s vocal track for “Under Pressure” began to go viral around the Web, and for good reason: Heard on their own, the power of their vocal performances was ...

Kiss wanted to be "the Beatles on steroids," with everybody in the band capable of writing and singing songs. Even though it took a few years, they eventually achieved a version of that lofty goal, ...

I can’t imagine there’s anyone left in the world who needs to be convinced that Rob Halford is a great singer. Regardless, these isolated Halford vocal tracks are just, like, nuts. I mean, listen to ...

People with hearing loss often have difficulty hearing the vocal tracks in songs, especially in recently produced music in which the vocals are already at a relatively low volume compared to the rest ...

Properly mixing the various elements of a song is an important step in producing professional-sounding music. Generally, the more parts and effect processors an unmixed song contains, the more ...