For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

Evocative sounds from the past, complete with hiss and warp.

Last week my writer-daughter, Beth, wrote a story about her MTV years. She recalled the 1980s watching music videos. She wrote, “When my sister and I visited Dad in July of 1984, we fell into a ...

Music moves all of us. It lifts us, makes us feel, and can even bring us back to a different time. One digital creator is spreading joy with music—using just a mini retro Fisher-Price cassette player.

This video is no longer available. For a generation that’s grown up with streaming music, the act of holding a physical recording is something a lot of young music fans have never experienced. My ...

More musicians, both international and domestic, are releasing their work on cassette tapes, which have long been out of fashion. However, experts say there is a long way to go before the format ...

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 ...

Cassette tapes brought Veronika Cloutier to Pittsburgh. Vinyl LPs have kept her here. Before moving to Pittsburgh from North Carolina in 2021, the former vocalist and guitarist for the band Attack Cat ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

The boombox is back but this time it has Bluetooth and can even double as a guitar amplifier. The We Are Rewind Curtis cassette tape boombox is now availabe in the U.S.