Jason Bitner is a master of turning garbage into gold. His new book, “Cassette From My Ex,” is a compilation of 60 reflections from musicians and writers — including ex-Rolling Stone writer Jancee ...

Remember the cassette? Mix tapes and mangled favourites in the car stereo? It's back. As an art object. In 1989 Britain was a nation in love with the pre-recorded cassette. We bought 83 million that ...

September 7 was election day. It was also Cassette Store Day. It has been 50 years since the first portable and affordable technology was invented, and the humble cassette tape still has a devoted ...

In the days before CD, MP3 or iTunes, when Sony's Walkman was just about the only mobile music player worth having, hip young music lovers engaged in the painstakingly intricate process of recording a ...

Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a high-end audio salesman, and as a record producer. Steve reviewed audio products for CNET and worked as a freelance writer for ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA — The vinyl resurgence has been keeping independent record stores alive for years, and it hit a milestone in 2020: Music fans spent more money on LPs than CDs last year for the first time ...

Cassette album sales continued to show growth in 2017, led by all things Guardians of the Galaxy. By Keith Caulfield Cassette album sales continued to show growth in 2017, led by all things Guardians ...

The Sony Walkman was launched on I July, 1979 and was a massive breakthrough in personal music listening. We’d never seen anything like it and I remember seeing the first Walkman and thinking that I ...