Question My daughter and her friend recently each got old-fashioned Walkman cassette players and I thought it would be fun to make them a mixtape as that’s what we used do when I was her age. I have a ...

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For those of us who grew up in the cassette era, “mixtape” isn’t just a backronym; we can actually remember listening to music that was encoded on a spool of tape inside a plastic case. And all the ...

Anyone else miss mixtapes and mix CDs? Those custom-made, carefully curated pieces of physical media that you could share with other people in an attempt to expand their musical horizons? Amid the ...

In the days before CD, MP3 or iTunes, when Sony's Walkman was just about the only mobile music player worth having, hip young music lovers engaged in the painstakingly intricate process of recording a ...

In anticipation of this weekend’s indie and punk rock FYF Festival, event promoters Sean Carlson and Phil Hoelting had an idea for a contest. It involved cassette tapes, the anachronistic music medium ...

If you ever made – or listened to – a mixtape, please press the pause button for a few moments to mark the passage of Lou Ottens, the engineer who oversaw the development of the cassette tape. The ...

A cassette Walkman may now be nothing more than a puzzling artifact to some, but for those of a certain age it was the gadget of the day. Alas, it has long since been surpassed by other, more portable ...

Last month, the second-annual California 24 Hours of Lemons Rally-- the Monterey Car Weeeeak Rally, to be exact -- took place, with drivers of street-legal hoopties traveling from Monterey, California ...