Your Old Audio Cassette Collection Is Destroying Itself

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic ...

As Rare Mariah Carey Demo Tape Hits Auction Block, Producer Says ‘She Was a Star Even Back Then’

The cassette tape includes early, unreleased recordings from the singer, along with 'raw' demos of tracks that eventually ...
PBS

Cassette tapes make unexpected comeback in era of music streaming

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 ...
Springfield News-Leader

The world was running out of cassette tape. Now it’s being made in Springfield.

A sprawling factory on Water Street in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people still use ...
Mother Jones

Enough Is Enough: Cassette Tapes Died For Good Reason

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. I am, of course, familiar with the hipster love of music on vinyl. But I didn’t know ...
Seattle Times

Springfield factory makes cassette tape

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A sprawling factory in downtown Springfield will soon be the only place in the country, maybe even the world, to make the tape that goes inside audiocassettes. Yes, people ...
Los Angeles Times

Cassette tapes are making a comeback. But it’s about the culture, not the sound

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 ...