Bomb threat in North Carolina declared over a Journey cassette
When someone in the mailroom of The Duke Energy Building looked at the package, it seemed…suspicious. A rectangular shape could
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Here’s an interesting use for cassettes
My hatred for cassettes as a music storage technology is well known. However, I don’t have an issue with using
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This old cassette machine plays digital music. It’s a cool way to fake out your friends.
There were a couple of attempts to bring cassette technology into the digital era. The first, Digitial Audio Tape (DAT)
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A Possible Xmas Present: The Cassette Coffee Table
Although I believe that cassettes are a horribly outdated technology that deserves to die, I kinda like the kitchiness of
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KFC Has Just Released a GPS Cassette. It’s as Dumb as It Sounds, But It’s Still Kinda Fun.
In case you’ve ever wanted driving directions from KFC HQ in Louisville, Kentucky, to its Big Chicken store (the one
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Random Music News for Wednesday, July 26, 2017
The back-to-school ads are now all over TV. I’m not ready for this. Seriously. After all, it’s only July 26,
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The Fish I Did Not Catch: The Tale of the Lost Our Lady Peace Demo Cassette
One day in the spring of 1993 as I was preparing for my afternoon shift at 102.1 the Edge, I
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A Device That Wants to Bring Back Cassettes
Please. Why do we want to bring back an obsolete bad-sounding music storage format? Those who are nostalgic for cassettes
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Tuesday Timesuck: A Documentary on Electronic Cassette Culture
What is it about cassettes–a hateful, obsolete technology, in my opinion–that engenders so much love in certain quarters? The Vinyl
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A Handy Guide to Which Music Storage Format Sounds Best–and Why
I’m currently working on a children’s book for Kids Can Press which traces the evolution of the gadgets we’ve used
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Random Music News for Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Morrissey was so outraged about the flippant way the news
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