What couldn't be used at all, though, was the tape player, a Fisher CR-W780. When I put in a cassette and pressed the play switch, I could hear the purr of an electric motor running, but there was ...

We were both frustrated by the extremely limited selection of new cassette tapes, considering that most of the new releases we could find were Top 40 titles that rarely appealed to our tastes.

Why did sales of cassette tapes nearly double from 2020 to 2021? Sales of the 80’s technology have spiked in recent years. To stream KHOU 11 on your phone, you need the KHOU 11 app.

There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the ...

Salt Lake City resident Joe Maloy has been a fan of cassette tapes for almost 10 years. In 2015, he bought a Jeep from his uncle. “The CD player didn’t work but it had a tape deck, and I was ...

The cassette tape was king until the compact disk or CD passed it in 1991. ... And it puts a shine on the back side of the tape. And on the front side, the oxide side, ...

Every Walkman singalong, every road trip compilation, every mix tape to a crush or healing from a breakup or just the thrill of cranking up a boombox — it all goes back to Lou Ottens, the ...

As any ’80s or ’90s kid will tell you, all we cared about was using the cassette player to record our favorite songs off the radio (*groans in ancient*) or play that Spice Girls song on repeat ...

Classic cassette tapes may not be as trendy as vinyl or even CDs but they’re still making some noise. According to recent reports, sales of the analog audio format have increased each of the last ten ...

Cassette tapes are back, baby. Sales of the retro recordings have skyrocketed over the past few years. Since 2017, the number of cassette tapes sold in the U.S. has been increasing by double-digit ...

More and more members of Gen Z are purchasing cassette tapes by current hitmakers, including Taylor Swift, Charlie XCX and Ariana Grande… Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines ...