From the shelves of Urban Outfitters to the celebratory Cassette Store Day, tapes are in the middle of a renaissance. But the return of the humble cassette isn’t just hipster nonsense – they’ve ...

Yes, Cassette Store Day is a thing – and actually, that's not at all unjust considering tape sales are the highest they've been since 2004. Inspired by the popularity of Record Store Day, Cassette ...

Picking a blank cassette can be more puzzling than picking any other audio component. After all, amplifiers, tuners or tape decks have clearly discernible features and stated specifications to set ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On the second day of this year’s South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, Philadelphia-based Free Energy, like other buzzed-about acts, played the Levi’s Fader Fort, a ...

Meanwhile, cassettes break and jam quite easily. Choosing a particular song might involve several minutes of fast forwarding or rewinding, which clogs the playback head and weakens the tape over time.

The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago when CDs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 last year, according to the ...

While CDs have been highlighted for their 'crystal-clear' quality, Emma Brennan argues the case for the cassette tape ...