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Cassette

Gadgets 

A Device That Wants to Bring Back Cassettes

May 2, 2017 Alan Cross 2 Comments BrainMonk, Cassette, Cassettes, Elbow, Player

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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Music History 

Tuesday Timesuck: A Documentary on Electronic Cassette Culture

November 29, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Electronic Music

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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Gadgets 

A Handy Guide to Which Music Storage Format Sounds Best–and Why

November 10, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment 7-inch single, 8-Track, Cassette, CD, FM Radio, iPod, MP3, Vinyl

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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Music News
Music News 

Random Music News for Tuesday, April 26, 2016

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC/DC, Album Artwork, Audio-Technica, Cassette, China, iTunes, Kid Rock, Radio, RippleBuds, Roger Daltrey, Spotify, The Who, Turntables, UK Radio

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Morrissey was so outraged about the flippant way the news

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Music News 

Eminem Is Going to Reissue The Slim Shady LP on Cassette

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Eminem, The Slim Shady EP

The Slim Shady LP, released on February 23, 1999, went on to sell somewhere close to 20 million copies, turning

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Cool! 

The Problem with Putting Audio in Time Capsules: The Cassette Conundrum

October 26, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Time Capsule

I love the concept of time capsules. Locking away artifacts of an age so that they may be discovered by

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Music News 

Arcade Fire Feels the Need to Release a Cassette

September 22, 2015September 21, 2015 Alan Cross 1 Comment 7-inch, Arcade Fire, Cassette, Reflektor, Reflektor Tapes

My feelings about cassettes are clear: they’re a hateful outdated technology that deserve to go the way of the 8-track.

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Music News 

Who’s Behind These Mysterious Cassettes?

September 18, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Mystery, Transviolet

Imagine this: you go to the mailbox one day to find an envelope containing and old-school cassette. The only information

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Gadgets 

The World’s Smallest Cassette

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Sony

At some point in the 1990s, this choking hazard seemed like a good idea.

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Cool! 

Kids Try to Figure Out a Cassette and a Boombox

May 24, 2015May 23, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Boombox, Cassette, Kids

Give a kid a cassette and a boombox and tell him/her to make it work. This might be the result.

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Music History 

Watch This: A History of the Cassette

May 7, 2015May 7, 2015 Alan Cross 0 Comments Cassette, Documentary

Today I look at the cassette as a vile piece of outdated technology. But back in the day, it was

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