There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the radio. Then came CDs, MP3s, and streaming, and tapes were tossed in drawers, ...

TASCAM has introduced a new line of analog cassette tape. You read that right. It’s been a long time since we got a press release about a new line of cassettes, but TASCAM says “many aspiring and ...

Music lovers everywhere are embracing a resurgence of the once popular and inexpensive, easy-to-handle audio cassette tape. For those of you too young to remember, cassettes were a music format ...

We're hitting 'rewind' on the Billboard archives. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director While the use of magnetic tape to record and play music dates back to the 1930s, it wasn’t until 1963, at the ...

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 ...

The cassette tape is back! Or at least this is what the organizers of Cassette Store Day, held in September, would have us believe. Cassettes? Really? Let’s play along, if only for nostalgia’s sake.

You can listen to plenty of broadcast radio these days. There’s a lot of choice too, with stations on AM, FM, and digital broadcasts to boot. However, if you want the broadest possible choice, you ...

One of the more interesting things about technology is that as new advancements are made, people simultaneously become more interested in long-forgotten technologies from the past. This is ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

Lou Ottens was fiddling with a reel-to-reel tape recorder one night in the early 1960s, trying to thread a wafer-thin piece of magnetic tape through mechanical guides so that he could listen to . . .