Several items are synonymous with the golden age of hip hop in the 1980s: thick gold rope chains, fuzzy Kangol caps and enormous boom boxes. It was this train of thought that led Dreams Chow Yin-chi ...

The last VCR was manufactured in 2016. That means there are still VCRs out there ready to take care of all your video cassette needs. But there is a finite number out there. The amount of VCRs will ...

If you have a collection of old cassette tapes lying around the house, there are plenty of ways you can give them a second ...

At the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Cyndi Lauper hit Time After Time plays on a boom box. The installation is called Mixtapes, part of the multimedia I Am Here exhibit that looks at music and home ...

Inside a cassette is a long spool of plastic tape covered with a magnetic medium that holds the recording as analog magnetic fluctuations. Even if you do nothing, even if the tape is sealed and ...

One can explain the recent boom in vinyl record sales in terms that make sense to an audiophile: A vinyl record often sounds more nuanced than music in a compressed digital format. But the growth in ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Inspired by The Fine Bros, we gave kids an old cassette/CD boom box to see if they could put a cassette tape inside of it. They had a little trouble. Produced by Sam ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Keeping an ear to the music blogosphere The Purple Tape has become the kind of cultural touchtone that many music fans love to ...

Vanessa Moreno of ooomydesign created a tribute to the Eighties with her series of Cassette Tape Lamps. She took advantage of the cassette's structural properties, simply tying the tapes firmly ...

Aquarius has released a new deck of progressive rock band Pink Floyd that comes inside a cassette box. The Pink Floyd DSOM Cassette Playing Cards deck has 54 cards, including two jokers, with a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

How long is a piece of string? If you measure it with the Cassette Tape Measure it is anywhere form zero to 120 minutes long. As the blurb advises, “Measure twice, rock once.” In fact, you can measure ...