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 ...

After decades in decline with the emergence of CDs and then digital music, cassette tapes — released by the likes of Swift, Billie Eilish and Harry Styles — have experienced a 443% increase in ...

Cassettes degrade quickly, unlike CDs, and are more of a nostalgic trend rather than a logical choice for music collection. You might have seen the news reports with tongue-in-cheek segments noting ...

With that, the cassette seemed headed the way of the 78 rpm, the 8-track, and other relics of the 20th century music-listening experience. Nostalgia for the audio cassette would seem to be a stretch.

Bust out your old C90s, because there’s a new portable hi-fi system on the way that looks a lot like the ones we grew up with ...

Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions. By Marc Hogan When Taylor ...

The Wall Street Journal says more than 430,000 cassettes were sold in the U.S. last year, about five times the number bought nearly a decade earlier, citing data from Luminate. Music lovers today ...

The re-recordable nature of the format, meanwhile, helped music fans collate and circulate their own mixtapes. At its peak in 1989, the cassette tape was shifting 83 million units per year in the ...

She continued: “It was also nice having the cassette player when my phone’s battery was dying. I was able to listen to music without draining my phone further. And having the inserts with the ...

Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world ... and the latest albums are available instantly on Spotify or Apple Music for a flat monthly fee. But on April 27, physical media will rise once ...

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 ...

He’s part of a small, dedicated community that believes cassette tapes are the best way to listen to and archive the Sufi music of Indian-controlled Kashmir, where music inspired by local and ...