Cassette tapes may seem like relics of the past, but the nostalgia boom and rise in physical media collecting have ...

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 ...

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

Nostalgia for the 1980s and 1990s is pretty strong these days, possibly due to the success of shows like "Stranger Things." The latest evidence that we're heading back to the era of Don Johnson, ...

Taylor Swift titled one of her albums 1989, but when her new record Midnights arrived this week, it really did feel like that year: Fans were able to buy it on LP, CD, and — find that old boom box — a ...

Once seen as a musical relic, audio cassettes have survived the eras of CDs and streaming to win over music lovers of a new generation. That’s in large part thanks to the National Audio Company in ...

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 ...

Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions. By Marc Hogan When Taylor ...