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 ...
Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...
The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago when CDs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 last year, according to the ...
In late noughties Soho, after gigs at the The Spice of Life pub, you’d find a man named Jackie with CDs and cassettes lined up outside. “He’d ask what instrument you play, you’d tell him and he’d ...
NBC did a report on them, Urban Outfitters is carrying them, and there’s even a whole day devoted to them. Some might say that cassette tapes are making a comeback. But according to a local record ...
If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...