SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine ...

Musicians and fans have developed a new taste for an old format, but manufacturers largely stopped making players. Listeners are finding creative (and vintage) solutions. By Marc Hogan When Taylor ...

Good ideas rarely go out of fashion… except for those boombox cassette players that we used to carry around in the 1980s. They disappeared along with leg warmers and shoulder pads and were eclipsed by ...

Once seen as a musical relic, audio cassettes have survived the eras of CDs and streaming to win over music lovers of a new generation. That’s in large part thanks to the National Audio Company in ...

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 ...