Several items are synonymous with the golden age of hip hop in the 1980s: thick gold rope chains, fuzzy Kangol caps and enormous boom boxes. It was this train of thought that led Dreams Chow Yin-chi ...

The last VCR was manufactured in 2016. That means there are still VCRs out there ready to take care of all your video cassette needs. But there is a finite number out there. The amount of VCRs will ...

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

Aquarius has released a new deck of progressive rock band Pink Floyd that comes inside a cassette box. The Pink Floyd DSOM Cassette Playing Cards deck has 54 cards, including two jokers, with a ...

Vanessa Moreno of ooomydesign created a tribute to the Eighties with her series of Cassette Tape Lamps. She took advantage of the cassette's structural properties, simply tying the tapes firmly ...

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 ...

Green Day is releasing a new box set. The box set includes all of the band's studio albums and greatest hits releases, through Revolution Radio … in cassette format. The release also comes with a ...

At the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cyndi Lauper hit Time After Time plays on a boom box. The installation is called Mixtapes, part of the multimedia I Am Here exhibit that looks at music and home ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keeping an ear to the music blogosphere The Purple Tape has become the kind of cultural touchtone that many music fans love to ...

The biggest mix tape of the year will soon be available to buy on cassette tape. The 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1' soundtrack will be issued on cassette Nov. 28. By Keith Caulfield The ...