When Taylor Swift released “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” in an array of physical formats last year, Cora Buel knew she had to get the cassette right away. Buel, 48, who is based in Daly City, Calif., is a ...
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 ...
In case you haven’t heard, Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Last week, Swifties were given the chance to pre-pre-order a physical copy. But, with the majority ...
Nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s is pretty strong these days, possibly due to the success of shows like "Stranger Things." The latest evidence that we're heading back to the era of Don Johnson, ...
Salt Lake City resident Joe Maloy has been a fan of cassette tapes for almost 10 years. In 2015, he bought a Jeep from his uncle. “The CD player didn’t work but it had a tape deck, and I was like, OK, ...
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 ...
I recently saw an article which identified yet another “trend” among those who like to follow fads: the revival of interest among the so-called “Gen Z” (born 1997 to 2012) in audio cassette tapes ...
Social media and streaming services have come to dominate the way people around the world consume music over the past few years. So, when I moved to Shanghai, I was delighted to find a small, but ...
First it was vinyl, and now here comes tape cassettes as we go back into the future. It appears a whole generation of music lovers has just realised that streaming is all well and good, but actually ...