Meanwhile, cassettes break and jam quite easily. Choosing a particular song might involve several minutes of fast forwarding ...

The humble cassette seems to be suddenly cool again. What’s driving the craze? And is it a full-blown revival?

My first car was a silver 1990 Buick Park Avenue handed down from my grandmother, and like all early '90s cars, it came equipped with a tape deck. It always had a cassette loaded. Most were homemade: ...

From the shelves of Urban Outfitters to the celebratory Cassette Store Day, tapes are in the middle of a renaissance. But the return of the humble cassette isn’t just hipster nonsense – they’ve ...

Picking a blank cassette can be more puzzling than picking any other audio component. After all, amplifiers, tuners or tape decks have clearly discernible features and stated specifications to set ...

A 1/8" inch, analog audio tape format that was widely used for music distribution and home recording. In the past, millions of pre-recorded and blank cassettes were sold each year; however, sales ...

The Performers Association and other groups representing artists and producers have sent Baltic governments an open letter demanding that the laws regulating blank media levies be updated to keep pace ...

Sony introduced the Walkman in 1979, and I got mine a year later. The Walkman boosted the profile of audio cassettes, which had been challenging LPs and 8-Tracks as a music medium. They soon dominated ...

Sales of audio cassettes are dwindling, but what use is there for the estimated 500 million tapes gathering dust? Cassette tapes were once at the cutting edge of personal music collections, offering ...