Five labels releasing forward-thinking music on backward-looking technology. The humble cassette tape has re-emerged as the medium of choice for a new wave of experimental producers and bedroom beat ...

With vintage tape duplicators whirring beneath a dizzying backdrop of art supplies, busted keyboards, and shelves of tapes, Billy Sprague describes his long-term relationship with cassettes and the ...

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So there’s the Yakima music scene you know, and there’s the one you don’t. The one you know, which takes up a lot of space in these pages, is centered around The Seasons Performance Hall, the Yakima ...

Check your old box of cassette tapes. Some tapes cost a few dollars in the 1980s, but are now worth a lot of cash. Here are ...

In 2010, Billboard Magazine’s annual album sales evaluation read thusly: physical sales were sinking like a septic tank full of concrete, except for vinyl. Sales of records were up 14 percent to 2.8 ...

Four years ago, cassette tapes were headed toward their funeral. In 2007, British tabloid The Sun declared the death of the cassette, after the announcement that a major electronics retailer in the ...

Careful who you’re calling obsolete. The humble cassette tape might seem like a relic of rock 'n’ roll’s past. But for a growing segment of people, it is a major part of making — and enjoying — music ...

For nearly a decade now, the cassette revival has been a subject of debate. Much of this chatter surrounds the trend’s unlikelihood and the reasons behind it, while others fret over supposed ...

There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the radio. Then came CDs, MP3s, and streaming, and tapes were tossed in drawers, ...