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 ...

When the Internet and MP3s began taking off in the early 2000s, many hand-wringing critics believed the rise of digital media would spell doomsday for their physical counterparts. While that looks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the vinyl LP began its modest but highly publicised commercial comeback a few years ago, it felt easy to love the format again.

Those of our readers old enough to remember the 90s will almost certainly recall cassette tapes fondly. The clacky little tapes and their creaky cases have more or less disappeared from the world, and ...

First introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the ...

“We were little boys who had fun playing. We didn’t feel like we were doing anything big. It was a kind of sport.” Although cassettes are no longer as ubiquitous as they were back in the day, ...

In late noughties Soho, after gigs at the The Spice of Life pub, you’d find a man named Jackie with CDs and cassettes lined up outside. “He’d ask what instrument you play, you’d tell him and he’d ...