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 ...

Meanwhile, cassettes break and jam quite easily. Choosing a particular song might involve several minutes of fast forwarding or rewinding, which clogs the playback head and weakens the tape over time.

In an era of music streaming and digital downloads, an old format is once again becoming popular. Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

In the introduction to “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape,” Phoenix-based author Marc Masters shares a vivid memory of freshman year at college. It’s the first week of school and ...

As a professional musician and teacher at Dave Janssen’s School of Music in Simi Valley, Lynnzee Fraye knows one of the best ways to build a following is by posting videos on social media. “But you ...

Spotify and Apple Music might be more convenient, but nothing quite beats the nostalgia of cassette tapes. According to the Nielsen Media Research Music Year-End Report for 2017, sales of cassette ...

Cassette tapes brought Veronika Cloutier to Pittsburgh. Vinyl LPs have kept her here. Before moving to Pittsburgh from North Carolina in 2021, the former vocalist and guitarist for the band Attack Cat ...