There will never be anything quite like the mix tape. For better or worse, it really changed the way people listened to music. So it’s sort of bittersweet to see Sony releasing its final ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

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, ...

You can still walk into music stores in Japan and see albums released on cassettes. I’m not sure which is more amazing: Being able to walk into a music store or being able to buy new music on ...

Sandwiched between the reel-to-reel tape and the rise of the cassette as we used to know it, there was, for a brief moment in 1958, what RCA Victor called “A Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape.” ...

This video is no longer available. For a generation that’s grown up with streaming music, the act of holding a physical recording is something a lot of young music fans have never experienced. My ...

Auckland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment.

While a few bands are still sticking to the old-school format, cassette tapes as an audio format have mostly been left in the dust. But instead of leaving them to unravel, try repurposing them with ...

Our Audio expert Chris Haslam gives his personal recommendation for buying a modern portable cassette or CD player ...

A fancy-pants iPod Touch is all well and good, but there's nothing like the halcyon days of crappy old cassette tapes. In fact, while most of us would gladly forget the damned things, coming only into ...

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