For Andy Molholt, there’s something oddly special about hitting play on his boombox at the beach. The Philadelphia-based musician tours frequently with his band Laser Background and, between that and ...

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 ...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

Move aside vinyl, another retro music format has spun back into the local spotlight. As emblematic to 1980s culture as the boom boxes and Sony Walkmans that played them, cassette tapes are back in ...

Salt Lake City resident Joe Maloy has been a fan of cassette tapes for almost 10 years. In 2015, he bought a Jeep from his uncle. “The CD player didn’t work but it had a tape deck, and I was like, OK, ...

When Charlie Kaplan started Tapehead City, an online store devoted to selling used audio cassettes, friends called him crazy. The year was 2014 and cassettes had all but vanished, with yearly sales ...

LIKE DEBBIE GIBSON, “Howard the Duck” and other pillars of the 1980s, the once-ubiquitous cassette tape doesn’t get a lot of respect today. If your entire tape collection melted in the back seat of ...

The Boulder Public Library is hitting the stop button on its cassette tapes, phasing out the adult books on tape to make more room on its shelves for higher-circulating CDs and DVDs. Children’s books ...

Once considered relics in the wake of MP3 players and then streaming services like Spotify, CDs and vinyl records have experienced a revival in recent years. And so too has another piece of seemingly ...

Music fans, who like to impress their friends with their collection of vinyl records, might feel out of step with hip people who are tuned into cassettes, which have made a such a big comeback that ...

My wife and I moved recently and that means I’ve become intimately reacquainted with all my stupid stuff — I mean, treasured possessions. Among my things was a box of cassettes. Although I didn’t own ...