Remember the days of freestyle? Ah, a simpler time with much more complicated ideas about what constituted good style. But just try to tell us that you didn’t think you were the absolute shit back in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. September 7 was election day. It was also Cassette Store Day. It has been 50 years since the first portable and affordable technology ...

Got some old cassette tapes lying around? I thought not. But keep reading anyway, as Thanko's Cassette Mate is quite a curiosity, in a retro-useless kind of way. Looking like a Walkman that has been ...

The cassette should have died. Instead, it's turning 50 in an atmosphere of celebration. Whether it's Cassette Store Day, new releases or simply nostalgia, the old tape cartridge isn't going gently ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back when I came of driving age, the early 1980s, not-too-terrible-quality cassette recorders and blank cassette tapes were just becoming cheap enough to put mixtapes within reach of ordinary ...

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 ...

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, ...