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 ...
Back when I came of driving age, the early 1980s, not-too-terrible-quality cassette recorders and blank cassette tapes were just becoming cheap enough to put mixtapes within reach of ordinary ...
The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, ...
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 ...
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 ...
When we heard the news about the death of Lou Ottens, the man who oversaw the creation of the audio cassette, it led us to reminisce about mixtapes. And we weren't alone. Readers responded on social ...
Naturally, the big appeal of the We Are Rewind GB-001 is going to be that tape deck. That means you can pick up your parents’ ...
Although the debut of the cassette can be traced back to a 1963 Berlin fair, Philips dates the format’s official launch at the company’s headquarters in Amsterdam on Sept. 13th, 1963. With the advent ...
Vinyl is making a comeback, but for all intents and purposes the reign of cassette tapes is long since over, right? Perhaps not, if Sony has anything to say about it. At today's International ...
For someone whose portable listening career began with MP3 players, sitting and watching that cassette rewind felt like an ...
UPDATE: You can BUY IT RIGHT HERE! Punknews is absolutely psyched to announce the release of the My Org mixtape. Seriously, we are stoked. The tape includes 42 bands, runs for two hours, and is ...