The bearer of the bad news is Amber, stationed behind a strip of plexiglass which serves as an ersatz 21st century sales counter. She seems--no, is--befuddled by my request for a Sports Walkman tape ...

The Sony Walkman was launched on I July, 1979 and was a massive breakthrough in personal music listening. We’d never seen anything like it and I remember seeing the first Walkman and thinking that I ...

Maybe it’s a natural consequence of living with two messy children, or maybe I just watched one too many episodes of “Hoarders,” but lately I’ve been on a tidiness kick around the house, trying to ...

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 ...

This might sound like an old story. Something old surprisingly becomes cool again. Like what happened with vinyl, the music medium that was nearly obsolete before making an unexpected and triumphant ...

There’s little that’s more hipster than an audio cassette. Its sound is far from perfect, it’s impractical, and — most important of all — it is easy to see that you’re using one. But that doesn’t mean ...

Here are three tracks from a mix tape made by Thurston Moore. Trying to control sharing through music is like trying to control an affair of the heart — nothing will stop it. Before the iPod and the ...

Lou Ottens, who brought joy to many music lovers with his invention of the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94. Ottens started working for the Phillips electronic manufacturing company in ...

CHICAGO (August 31, 2023) – This fall WBEZ Chicago and Radiolab will present Mixtapes to the Moon: how the cassette changed the world, an immersive live audio and storytelling event experience. WBEZ ...