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Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. In an era of music streaming and digital downloads ...
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 ...
The latest evidence that we're heading back to the era of Don Johnson, Saturday morning cartoons, and regrettable "Rocky" sequels is the seemingly amazing revival of the cassette tape.
His slightly older sister is content to listen to Spotify. So, news that more and more members of Gen Z are purchasing cassette tapes by current hitmakers, including Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and ...
We have done Billie Eilish tapes before, put it that way.” Welcome to the unexpected, ongoing, and sometimes baffling world of the cassette revival. For much of the Seventies and Eighties ...
Sales of cassette tapes quintupled between 2015 and 2022. The music technology is cheap to publish, and allows fans to have an inexpensive token of their love for a band. With the rise of modern ...
By Steve Knopper In late 2020, when Eyeball Records co-owners Zac Nadile and Alex Saavedra decided to put out small runs of cassette tapes for indie artists like one-man synth band N8NOFACE and ...
Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world of entertainment — but, just a half-century after they came on the scene, they’ve largely gone the way of the dodo. In 2025, digital media is king. Online ...
Modern music audiences are rewinding and hitting play on a cassette tape revival. Stephanie Sy reports for our arts and culture series, CANVAS. PBS News Hour is available to stream on pbs.org and ...
Cassette and VHS tapes once ruled the world of entertainment — but, just a half-century after they came on the scene, they’ve largely gone the way of the dodo. In 2025, digital media is king.