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 ...

While CDs have been highlighted for their 'crystal-clear' quality, Emma Brennan argues the case for the cassette tape ...

In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture are almost inextricable from the commercial record industry. Created and incubated by people on the socioeconomic margins and firmly outside of the mainstream, ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

A sprawling factory on Water Street in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people still use ...

Cassettes may be a relic of the pre-digital era, but there are a few places in this country where those unloved plastic tapes are holding on strong. Although many corrections departments are tiptoeing ...

The cassette tape is making a comeback with prices of recent albums sold in the retro format as much as quadrupling in value ...

A grave rock 'n' roll injustice akin to Vanilla Ice outselling Ice Cube and Christopher Cross topping Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at the 1981 Grammys, cassette tapes have somehow re-emerged as a cultishly ...