In 2024, rap music and hip-hop culture are almost inextricable from the commercial record industry. Created and incubated by people on the socioeconomic margins and firmly outside of the mainstream, ...

Amy Campbell recently bought her first cassette. Her next step: Learning how to play it. “I struggled a little bit,” the 26-year-old said about the Kacey Musgraves album she ordered in March from the ...

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 ...

When Yamen Mekdad was a teenager in Damascus, Syria, there was one place he'd go almost every day: his friend's cassette shop. "So I'd just sit with him, hang out with him, smoke cigarettes and just ...

Demonstrations and lectures by David Locke; a percussion ensemble from West Africa (tape 3) Accompanies Drum gahu : a systematic method for an African percussion piece, by David Locke, MT655.L814 1987 ...