Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

For years now, many have been talking about the comeback of cassette tapes anticipating their return since the early ’00s. Record stores such as Amoeba Records and Jacknife records have started ...

While CDs are making a comeback with the younger generations, let's hope the terrible portable CD players that skipped with ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

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 ...

The inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands ...

Vinyl is experiencing a huge resurgence — we all know this. But a rising tide lifts all ships and it has actually spawned renewed interest in other old-school audio formats as well, including CDs and, ...