We're hitting 'rewind' on the Billboard archives. By Joe Lynch Executive Digital Director While the use of magnetic tape to record and play music dates back to the 1930s, it wasn’t until 1963, at the ...

According to today’s New York Times, "Say So Long to an Old Companion: Cassette Tapes," the cassette tape is dead. Though long anticipated, the end came quickly. The cassette is survived by the CD ...

The inventor of the CD and cassette tapes has passed away. Lou Ottens, who is credited with not only inventing the cassette tape but also helping develop the CD, died at his home in the Netherlands ...

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 ...

Lou Ottens, the Dutch engineer who invented the audio cassette tape, breathed his last on March 6 in Duizel, the Netherlands. He was 94 years old. Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported his ...

Lou Ottens, an engineer who invited the concept of the cassette tape in the early 1960s and later helped develop compact discs, died Saturday at 94, according to news reports from the Netherlands.

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 ...

For people of a certain age cassette tapes bring back a lot of memories, from your first mixtape from a significant other to the unbelievable frustration of trying to tape a broken cassette back ...