The humble cassette seems to be suddenly cool again. What’s driving the craze? And is it a full-blown revival?

There’s a museum practice called “de-accession.” That’s when, say, a gallery gets rid of its velvet Elvises to concentrate on poker-playing dogs. The term you’re more likely to hear these days is ...

The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...

DJ Shadow has long been revered as one of the pioneers of crate digger-driven instrumental beat music, but populating his upcoming album Action Adventure almost exclusively with vocal-free songs was ...

Andrew Simon, historian of media and popular culture in the Middle East, talks to Ahram Online about a dear element of Egypt's intangible cultural heritage, the audio cassette. In his book, Media of ...

It’s true almost no effort goes into [mix CDs]. You used to have to listen to those mix tapes in real time while you made them. You used to feel there was a real act of devotion in creating it that ...