Similar to the resurgence of vinyl records — though to a lesser degree — the two-spooled, magnetic cassette tape hasn't quite ...

In the summer of 1997, the only reason I survived a family road trip through western Canada was my trusty Walkman. It wasn’t my dad’s Walkman, which was adult, boring, and gray. While I can’t quite ...

There are countless ways to consume music today: online streaming services, digital downloads, and video playlists on YouTube keep music at the tips of your fingers. But nothing beats holding a ...

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Let me be clear from the outset: I do not like cassettes. Anyone who fetishizes them in today’s digital world probably didn’t live through the era when they were our only option when it came to ...

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 ...

SHIMA, Mie -- Radio-cassette players and cassette tapes were inarguably must-have items for youthful music fans in the 1970s and '80s. However, the dominance of digital formats has driven cassettes to ...

Children of the late ’70s and early ’80s (plus mid ’90s-born retro fetishists) — your portable music player has arrived at last. The Ion Tape Dock, coming October 23, is essentially a Walkman with an ...

There was a time when fingers punched play, cassettes got stuck, pencils reeled the tape back in, and Kumar Sanu played on side A. A lot has changed since then; tape recorders went out of fashion to ...

Lou Ottens, inventor of the humble cassette tape, died on March 11. He was 94. Ottens was a Dutch design engineer who worked as a product development officer for Philips. Before the cassette tape, he ...