First there was Napster, followed swiftly by the likes of iTunes and Spotify and now all music seems virtual or digital. But according to new research, music buyers still prefer to purchase their ...

But crucially, how does it sound?

In 1989, when global annual sales of cassettes peaked at 83 million, people were listening to the Christmas number one, But Seriously... by Phil Collins, on their Sony Walkmans. 30 years later and ...

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When Alexis Malbert plays a cassette, he doesn't just throw one on and hit play, but actually uses the tape as a musical instrument. The French musician, who performs under the name Tapetronic, has ...

Cassette tape sales are up by 443% in the US, driven by Gen-Z's interest in albums by Metallica, Taylor Swift, and Nirvana. Cassette tapes do not possess the audiophile status of vinyl records and ...

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and amid the postage-paid crates we'll use to ship home the spring interns is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, ...

From the moment I bought my Farmor's station wagon seven years ago (that's Swedish for "father's mother"), I've collected cassettes. I had no money to install a CD player at the time, so childhood ...

Described by some as “Europe’s biggest tech show,” the Berlin Radio Show has long been famous for exhibiting the next big thing in consumer electronics. In 1963, that was the compact audio cassette, ...