Cars have had DRM-like measures for longer than you might think. Go back to the 1990s, and coded cassette decks were a common way to stop thieves being able to use stolen stereos. Sadly, they became ...

Apparently a rare, early Deftones demo from 1992 became the most expensive cassette ever sold on popular music marketplace DIscogs, having sold back in May of this year for a whopping $5,000 for a ...

The boombox is back but this time it has Bluetooth and can even double as a guitar amplifier. The We Are Rewind Curtis ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th.

For a middle-school music-appreciation class in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the late nineteen-seventies, our teacher asked each of us to bring in a piece of recorded music to play on the ...

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 ...

Historians can argue the exact date of the compact cassette tape's birth, but as far as Philips is concerned, it was on this day in 1963 when the company first launched the format at its headquarters ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. Just when cassette tapes appeared to be making a comeback, a worldwide shortage of gamma ...