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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — The vinyl resurgence has been keeping independent record stores alive for years, and it hit a milestone in 2020: Music fans spent more money on LPs than CDs last year for the first time ...

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 ...

Cassette tapes reached their peak from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, with an estimated 500 million cassette tapes sold in Japan alone in 1989. However, with the advent of CDs and the spread of ...

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 ...

The boombox is back but this time it has Bluetooth and can even double as a guitar amplifier. The We Are Rewind Curtis cassette tape boombox is now availabe in the U.S.

WASHINGTON — When recorded cassettes and the boomboxes to play them upon hit the shelves of Urban Outfitters, it’s official — vinyl isn’t the only retro music format striking a chord with young people ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

Strewn all over the front seats of this car were dozens and dozens of cassette tapes (Fun Fact: did you know that this audio format predates the 8-track tape? It's true). Nothing to see here… but wait ...