Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession ... ANP/AFP via Getty Images But Lou Ottens, the inventor of the cassette, is ready for his ...

Every product is carefully selected by our editors. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Classic cassette tapes may not be as trendy as vinyl or even CDs but they’re still ...

Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. In an era of music streaming and digital downloads ...

We have done Billie Eilish tapes before, put it that way.” Welcome to the unexpected, ongoing, and sometimes baffling world of the cassette revival. For much of the Seventies and Eighties ...

His slightly older sister is content to listen to Spotify. So, news that more and more members of Gen Z are purchasing cassette tapes by current hitmakers, including Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and ...

For people of a certain age cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories, from your first mixtape from a significant other to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a broken cassette back ...

This article is adapted from the book High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. Will the Grateful Dead ever actually die? Though the band ended when Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995 ...

Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world of entertainment — but, just a half-century after they came on the scene, they’ve largely gone the way of the dodo. In 2025, digital media is king.