Zedd mans the keys and the vocoder while Grey handle guitar and drums. Morris belts it out while the audience goes wild. By Kat Bein “The Middle” is the song that keeps on giving. The song peaked at ...

If you were in close proximity to any working radio this summer, you probably heard Zedd and Alessia Cara’s vocoder-laced dance pop track “Stay” a couple of times — at least. The song ruled the radio ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

Wanting to follow up "Stay" with another listen to "Poltergeist" is fine by me, though, and Cara's voice is by far the biggest asset on "Stay," injecting emotion that the distorted vocoder-esque ...