There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the ...

Of course, cassette tapes aren’t meant to be used in this way. Simply throwing a chain through the cassette would lead to tape reeling out everywhere.

Cassette tapes are making a comeback. But it’s about the culture, not the sound. Sales of cassette music tapes climbed 23% in the U.S. last year. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) ...

WAVERLY, NEB. — The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago, when compact discs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about ...

Cassette tapes are, of course, not unleakable. Low-cost technology now exists to convert cassettes to MP3s. But for those who value the physicality of cassettes — something that can’t be ...

CDs where well into their popularity by that point, but I remained a cassette kind until I was about 10. So tapes have always held a special place in my heart. While my extensive collection of ...

Mix tapes were the best thing about cassettes, but they were a royal pain to make. Cueing up the LP and starting the recorder at exactly the right time took a lot of skill, but even then it was a ...

Exploring the impact of the humble compact cassette on the sound and inspiration of Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones during their late 1960s period.

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 ...