Its owner, Harry, has taken over the business from his grandfather. One day, Harry comes across a cassette tape in the back room. He shows it to Ei, a university student studying Japanese culture ...

Vinyl has the audiophiles to keep it relevant, and CDs still have the people who are scared of streaming music, but who mourns for the cassette tape? Yesterday we would have said nobody ...

Cassette tapes are impractical, and the people who buy and produce them agree. Yet, a community of listeners continue to keep them alive. “It’s ridiculous buying cassettes and having a cassette player ...

Interest in the 1980s and 1990s appears to be growing, as one staple of the period is seemingly making a comeback: the cassette tape. Artists like Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift seem to be ...

Discogs has revealed the most expensive cassette tape ever sold on their popular music collector archive and marketplace. The record-setting tape is a limited edition, independently released ...

Miyaka has released tapes of that interview to NHK with the wish to pass on their contents to future generations. In them, Oshima speaks of regret and makes an admission of guilt. “I keenly feel ...

Other delay pedals have been mentioned on the site before, like this digital delay pedal and here’s another take on the cassette tape delay.

but Japan is still pursuing better-writing, higher performance pens.

Music journalist Marc Masters has announced a revival of a less-mythologized medium in his new book, “High Bias: The ...

Street artist Neck (Oliver Gelbrich) created tapedeck.org, a wonderfully nostalgic online gallery of analog audio cassette ...

To achieve this, each C60 cassette housed approximately 281.25 feet (85.73 meters) of magnetic tape, which measured 1/8 inch (3.81 mm) wide and 16 µm (0.0006 inches or 0.0159 mm) thick.

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