After being fired from Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne hit rock bottom. A few months later, he met Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley, ...

Artist Amy Corson has developed a unique medium over the last decade: portraiture with cassette tape. It all began one day when she picked up a cassette of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and pulled ...

My first car was a silver 1990 Buick Park Avenue handed down from my grandmother, and like all early '90s cars, it came equipped with a tape deck. It always had a cassette loaded. Most were homemade: ...

Antiquated as they may seem, tapes were once both an important adjunct of teenage dating rituals and a staple of rock-show bootleg culture. On September 7, more than 50 bands—Flaming Lips, Animal ...

Six years ago, aspiring Chicago-area musician Ryley Walker was browsing merchandise at the Pitchfork Music Festival when he struck up a conversation with vendor Dustin Drase, founder of Chicago-based ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — In 2021, your favorite artist or band is literally just a click away. Naturally, anyone over the age of 16 knows that this hasn’t always been the case. Over the years, collecting ...

You could say that Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer has been creating fossils out of fossils in a project he’s been working on since 2005. His relics are welded from cassette tapes, of either the ...

The Wall Street Journal claims cassette tapes are making a comeback for hard-to-believe reasons like that terrible hissing sound and the smell, but we have a different theory for why these sub-par ...

There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the radio. Then came CDs, MP3s, and streaming, and tapes were tossed in drawers, ...