In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture are almost inextricable from the commercial record industry. Created and incubated by people on the socioeconomic margins and firmly outside of the mainstream, ...

When Charlie Kaplan — founder and owner of Long Island-based online store Tapehead City — noticed that Urban Outfitters had devoted a section to cassettes and their players, he knew that a new ...

TV and home video editor Ty Pendlebury joined CNET Australia in 2006, and moved to New York City to be a part of CNET in 2011. He tests, reviews and writes about the latest TVs and audio equipment.

Urban Outfitters, one of the largest vinyl sellers, began a new push last week to sell cassettes, including exclusive pressings from Run the Jewels and Halsey. I see this sentimentality-fueled cash ...

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, ...

While the format's popularity pales next to vinyl, it's enjoyed a 443% sales increase in the last seven years – good news for a small number of manufacturers. By Steve Knopper In late 2020, when ...

The latest French Cassettes album, Benzene, hasn’t even been out for a month, but the ten tracks that appear on it aren’t necessarily new, according to lead singer and songwriter Lorenzo “Scott” ...

Remember cassettes? They were, for many of us, our first opportunity to record sound and carry music around. Mixtape love letters, kids' violin lessons, early hip hop releases — cassettes were a cheap ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

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 ...