For years now, many have been talking about the comeback of cassette tapes anticipating their return since the early ’00s. Record stores such as Amoeba Records and Jacknife records have started ...

Cassette tapes may seem like relics of the past, but the nostalgia boom and rise in physical media collecting have ...

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic fluctuations. Even if you do nothing, even if the tape is sealed and ...

The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago when CDs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 last year, according to the ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

Cassette tapes now appear to be one of music’s hottest collectibles, with resale prices climbing as much as 1,000%. A study ...

Bust out your boom box and get your fingers ready for some manual rewinding. The guys behind a do-it-yourself Bushwick recording studio are celebrating two years in its current location by releasing a ...

NORTHSIDE, Ohio (WKRC) - There was a chance to find some great music in Northside Saturday. The Northside Record Fair ran from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the former location of North Church off ...

In late noughties Soho, after gigs at the The Spice of Life pub, you’d find a man named Jackie with CDs and cassettes lined up outside. “He’d ask what instrument you play, you’d tell him and he’d ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

Whether you’re a dedicated digger of crates, a touring name in turntablism, or merely a tocadisco-dilettante hoping to start ...

A guide to Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, including Bay Area-connected releases, collector highlights, and where to find ...