From the shelves of Urban Outfitters to the celebratory Cassette Store Day, tapes are in the middle of a renaissance. But the return of the humble cassette isn’t just hipster nonsense – they’ve ...

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: ...

For a supposedly obsolete music format, audio cassette sales seem to be set on fast forward at the moment. Cassettes are fragile, inconvenient and relatively low-quality in the sound they produce – ...

The first obituaries for cassette tapes appeared more than 20 years ago when CDs hit the market. Sales of music tapes plummeted from 442 million in 1990 to about 700,000 last year, according to the ...

Cassette tapes reached their peak from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, with an estimated 500 million cassette tapes sold in Japan alone in 1989. However, with the advent of CDs and the spread of ...

For more stories like this one, subscribe to A People's History of Kansas City on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the past decade music cassette tapes have experienced a revival. Sales have increased ...

Steve Stepp likes to tell people his company is still around after 45 years thanks to his stupidity and stubbornness. As the owner of family-run National Audio Company, the last business to ...