Remember the days of freestyle? Ah, a simpler time with much more complicated ideas about what constituted good style. But just try to tell us that you didn’t think you were the absolute shit back in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. September 7 was election day. It was also Cassette Store Day. It has been 50 years since the first portable and affordable technology ...

Sales of audio cassettes are dwindling, but what use is there for the estimated 500 million tapes gathering dust? Cassette tapes were once at the cutting edge of personal music collections, offering ...

Got some old cassette tapes lying around? I thought not. But keep reading anyway, as Thanko's Cassette Mate is quite a curiosity, in a retro-useless kind of way. Looking like a Walkman that has been ...

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 ...

The cassette should have died. Instead, it's turning 50 in an atmosphere of celebration. Whether it's Cassette Store Day, new releases or simply nostalgia, the old tape cartridge isn't going gently ...

There’s a museum practice called “de-accession.” That’s when, say, a gallery gets rid of its velvet Elvises to concentrate on poker-playing dogs. The term you’re more likely to hear these days is ...

Andrew Simon, historian of media and popular culture in the Middle East, talks to Ahram Online about a dear element of Egypt's intangible cultural heritage, the audio cassette. In his book, Media of ...

It might be time to dig out those old mix tapes because the ultimate 1980s music accessory is making a comeback. Yes, we’re talking about cassette tapes. That’s because a Kickstarter project launched ...