As artists ditch Spotify and nostalgia reigns supreme, Punch Tab Tapes offers an easy and affordable entrance to physical ...

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

In the introduction to “High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape,” Phoenix-based author Marc Masters shares a vivid memory of freshman year at college. It’s the first week of school and ...

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.

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 ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

My previous daily driver was a 2000 VW Beetle that I inherited from my mom, and the only way to listen to pre-recorded music was by inserting a tape into the stereo. That prompted me to buy a few ...

That old copy of your favorite movie could be an environmental hazard. We found a DIY trick and specialist services that ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

The trend for all things retro shows no sign of stopping with Y2K fashion, flip-phones and episodes of Friends as popular as ever. While record players and vinyl got their comeback, VHS, floppy discs ...