One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

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 ...

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 ...

This might sound like an old story. Something old surprisingly becomes cool again. Like what happened with vinyl, the music medium that was nearly obsolete before making an unexpected and triumphant ...

The evolution from owning physical music to streaming has transformed listening from a focused, personal experience into an ...

When Charlie Kaplan started Tapehead City, an online store devoted to selling used audio cassettes, friends called him crazy. The year was 2014 and cassettes had all but vanished, with yearly sales ...

LIKE DEBBIE GIBSON, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...

It turns out there’s a place for archaic physical media of questionable audio fidelity–even in the Spotify era. For Andy Molholt, there’s something oddly special about hitting play on his boombox at ...

As perplexing as it might be, cassette tapes are making a comeback. Much like vinyl's resurgence in popularity over the past several years, cassette tapes are finding their way into retail stores 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 ...

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 ...