Cassette Week is a new celebration of the original portable, recordable format started by by online store Tapehead City (which has been around since 2014). The inaugural edition happens October 11-17 ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape, has died aged 94. Ottens' invention transformed the way people listened to music, and there has even been a resurgence ...

A flourish of gaily coloured audio tapes adorns the mantelpiece of an upstairs kitchen in Hackney. I pick out the only spine written in English. And there, in impeccable Letraset, reads the rather ...

The National have announced an upcoming live-recording release, Juicy Sonic Magic, which will be available on Nov. 29 as part of Record Store Day’s Black Friday celebration. The cassette box set ...

In the days before CD, MP3 or iTunes, when Sony's Walkman was just about the only mobile music player worth having, hip young music lovers engaged in the painstakingly intricate process of recording a ...

People of a certain vintage couldn’t help feel a twinge of sad nostalgia earlier this month with the news of the death of Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette. In the very early 1960s, when ...

Who said cassettes were dead? Definitely not Patrick Garcia and Michelle Grand, founders and owners of Miami-based record label Cheap Miami. "We started Cheap Miami around two years ago in the summer, ...

I’ve been playing a lot of music by Alex Gray, a guy from Oxnard, California, who tends to work under the name of Deep Magic. I’ve been playing a lot of music by Alex Gray, a guy from Oxnard, ...