Christopher Wenn has received funding from a City of Hume COVID-19 Arts Activation Grant in 2020. That’s a great question. To answer it very briefly, music is recorded onto a cassette tape using ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

Despite the odds, cassette tapes are making a comeback. And one family-owned company in Springfield, Missouri is a leader in the revival. Decades ago, a commercial for high-quality cassette tapes ...

In an era of music streaming and digital downloads, an old format is once again becoming popular. Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports ...

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 ...

Cassettes were my gateway into hi-fi. In my early years, this was my format of choice. Cheap, portable and robust, cassettes were way more accessible to eight-year-old me than vinyl records. I write ...

The cassette tape was once the king of portable music, shaping how people listened to albums in the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s. Long before CDs or streaming, cassettes offered affordability, ...

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate ...

When Philip Weintraub recorded a message for his son to listen to on prom night, he could've never known that years later, the Internet was listening in Ami Weintraub The year is 1988 and it's prom ...

Cassette tapes may seem like relics of the past, but the nostalgia boom and rise in physical media collecting have transformed certain tapes into valuable collectibles. Some are rare because they were ...