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Salt Lake City resident Joe Maloy has been a fan of cassette tapes for almost 10 years. In 2015, he bought a Jeep from his uncle. “The CD player didn’t work but it had a tape deck, and I was like, OK, ...

It feels like a cassette revival comes along every few years, and with the latest iteration in full swing, we were both startled and amused to see that at least one inventor is re-exploring the idea ...

In the introduction to “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape,” Phoenix-based author Marc Masters shares a vivid memory of freshman year at college. It’s the first week of school and ...

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the ...

This might sound like an old story. Something old surprisingly becomes cool again. Like what happened with vinyl, the music medium that was nearly obsolete before making an unexpected and triumphant ...

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 ...

Reinventing refuse for a retro look.

WAVERLY, NEB. — The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago, when compact discs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 ...