With the advent of the CD, and then the MP3, it looked like the cassette tape had had its day. But in the last few years, the humble cassette has enjoyed a revival that few could have predicted.

China’s current crop of DIY cassette labels is extremely small and very new. The flow of dakou (打口)—discarded Western tapes sold in the grey market created after China’s 1978 economic opening—raised ...

In 2010, Billboard Magazine’s annual album sales evaluation read thusly: physical sales were sinking like a septic tank full of concrete, except for vinyl. Sales of records were up 14 percent to 2.8 ...

For nearly a decade now, the cassette revival has been a subject of debate. Much of this chatter surrounds the trend’s unlikelihood and the reasons behind it, while others fret over supposed ...

Five labels releasing forward-thinking music on backward-looking technology. The humble cassette tape has re-emerged as the medium of choice for a new wave of experimental producers and bedroom beat ...

[15.07.2021. Content warning: an article published by J.-H. Kabuiku on July 9th 2021 points out Dominick Fernow’s consistent links with metal and noise artists, bands, labels and productions using ...

Cassette Store Day is indeed a thing and the national event is returning to Orlando – Park Ave CDs, to be exact – this Saturday, Oct. 12. It’s like an even more niche Record Store Day, with the ...

Six years ago, aspiring Chicago-area musician Ryley Walker was browsing merchandise at the Pitchfork Music Festival when he struck up a conversation with vendor Dustin Drase, founder of Chicago-based ...

The much-maligned format whose popularity declined sharply in the past decade with the advent of digital downloads is enjoying a nostalgic revamp lead by indie bands and a generation of fans who weren ...

There was a time when Parlour Tapes — cassette label, event planners, and sound-experiment extraordinaires — came precariously close to breaking into the nut butter business. Deidre Huckabay, Jenna ...