Controlling the environmental conditions where your tapes are stored is key to their longevity.

With cassettes enjoying a revival, here are a few vintage tapes by Metallica, Eazy-E, Radiohead, and more that actually ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These refrigerator-sized units ...

Vinyl is making a comeback, but for all intents and purposes the reign of cassette tapes is long since over, right? Perhaps not, if Sony has anything to say about it. At today's International ...

I was never a fan of cassettes; they were the MP3s of their time. Neither format ever sounded good to me. Prerecorded tapes from the record companies were the lowest of the low. True, they were less ...

Tapes are due for a midlife crisis. Invented in 1963 by Lou Ottens and later introduced at the Funkausstellung radio exhibition in Berlin, compact cassettes would go on to become the most prevalent ...

Cassettes, like LPs are enjoying something of a “comeback,” but I can’t say I was ever a big fan of the format. Sure, with a great Nakamichi or high-end Pioneer cassette deck the sound of recordings ...

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the ...

Ro$ama turns family roots, lyrical precision and competitive drive into his solo statement, "My Forte." ...

A song playing on YouTube made my heart ache.A long time ago, I received a single cassette tape from someone I loved.Young ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Steve Stepp knew audiotapes were going to come back before you did, and not just ...