With vintage tape duplicators whirring beneath a dizzying backdrop of art supplies, busted keyboards, and shelves of tapes, Billy Sprague describes his long-term relationship with cassettes and the ...

Between the undisputed popularity of streaming services and the resurgence of vinyl, cassette tapes fall into a cultural no-man’s land. They aren’t vintage enough like, say, a Super Nintendo, nor as ...

Five labels releasing forward-thinking music on backward-looking technology. The humble cassette tape has re-emerged as the medium of choice for a new wave of experimental producers and bedroom beat ...

Four years ago, cassette tapes were headed toward their funeral. In 2007, British tabloid The Sun declared the death of the cassette, after the announcement that a major electronics retailer in the ...

As part of our 9th Anniversary, we asked our regular contributors to share their favorite Hypebot posts. This one comes from Hypebot Senior Contributor Clyde Smith. Though numerous individuals have ...

The cheap plastic. The unruly ribbon. Leave them on a car dashboard on a July afternoon and be prepared to come back to a warped, melted mess. To those who can remember loading a Walkman or boom box ...

Tapes are due for a midlife crisis. Invented in 1963 by Lou Ottens and later introduced at the Funkausstellung radio exhibition in Berlin, compact cassettes would go on to become the most prevalent ...

Careful who you’re calling obsolete. The humble cassette tape might seem like a relic of rock 'n’ roll’s past. But for a growing segment of people, it is a major part of making — and enjoying — music ...

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For nearly a decade now, the cassette revival has been a subject of debate. Much of this chatter surrounds the trend’s unlikelihood and the reasons behind it, while others fret over supposed ...

In the era of digital downloads and streaming, much publicity has been given to the revival in sales of vinyl records, both of new releases and reissues. However, all the noise surrounding that ...

My interest in cassettes as a music format was initially somewhat of a novelty and a way of taking the gradual mainstreaming of vinyl and contrasting that process with something that seemed more out ...