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 ...

Researchers in China have created a cassette tape capable of storing enough data to hold every song ever recorded. The team from the Southern University of Science and Technology in Guangdong made the ...

The Wall Street Journal claims cassette tapes are making a comeback for hard-to-believe reasons like that terrible hissing sound and the smell, but we have a different theory for why these sub-par ...

A sprawling factory on Water Street in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people still use ...

Music lovers everywhere are embracing a resurgence of the once popular and inexpensive, easy-to-handle audio cassette tape. For those of you too young to remember, cassettes were a music format ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

I’m pretty sure this is what zen feels like. I’m not arguing we should go back to cassette tapes, but after watching them get made I’m semi-certain this trance-inducing process is how Buddhists find ...

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 ...

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The demo’s history extends beyond the music itself, it marks the rise of Carey’s worldwide stardom The post Mariah Carey’s ...