WASHINGTON — When recorded cassettes and the boomboxes to play them upon hit the shelves of Urban Outfitters, it’s official — vinyl isn’t the only retro music format striking a chord with young people ...

Like Debbie Gibson, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...

Jimmy Borges, pictured with his wife, Vicki, made his last concert appearance at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in 2015. He left about 80 cassette tapes, unplayable in the outdated format but preciously ...

Spotify and Apple Music might be more convenient, but nothing quite beats the nostalgia of cassette tapes. According to the Nielsen Media Research Music Year-End Report for 2017, sales of cassette ...

DJ Shadow has long been revered as one of the pioneers of crate digger-driven instrumental beat music, but populating his upcoming album Action Adventure almost exclusively with vocal-free songs was ...

Earlier this week we talked about the 40th birthday of the iconic Sony Walkman cassette player that everyone wanted in the '80s. Cassettes were the go-to form factor for portable music for a lot of ...

If you find that having your music in good quality, being able to skip tracks with fast forwarding and fitting all your media onto one device is just too convenient, then we've got good news: Cassette ...