Ongoing History Daily: A brief history of mixtapes
Before the mid-60s, there was no such thing as personalized playlists, this idea that you could collect all your favourite songs in one place so you could listen back to all of them
Read MoreBefore the mid-60s, there was no such thing as personalized playlists, this idea that you could collect all your favourite songs in one place so you could listen back to all of them
Read MoreBack in the day before CD-Rs and streaming, making mixtapes on cassette was something everyone did. Not only were these tapes used for the car, the Walkman, and the boombox, but they were
Read MoreThere will be plenty of unexpected and unintended consequences from the coronavirus pandemic. There will be few areas of our lives that won’t be altered in some way, even after this goes away/we
Read MoreThe Cuban Missile Crisis began on this day in 1962. We don’t need another one of those, ever. Otherwise, how would I do things like bring you music news for October 16, 2019?
Read MoreA recent excavation of my basement uncovered a trove of ancient mixtapes, compilations I made up for my car (gawd, I can’t even remember how many cars ago had a cassette player). They
Read MoreAnyone who has ever created a playlist or mixtape knows how easy it is to get bogged down deciding on what to include. It gets even harder when you try to create playlists
Read MoreOn this day in 1941, Canada declared war on Finland. (It’s complicated; we followed the UK and Finland was at the time occupied by Germany.) And now, the music news. This new rock
Read MoreSaturday (October 8) was International Cassette Store Day? Really? Sorry I missed it. Actually, I’m not. I hold in my heart the absolute truth that cassettes are an old, outdated technology that deserves
Read MoreNow that you mention it, I’d probably agree. Medium.com goes further. We tend to think of it as a cultural anachronism. A short-lived oddity born out of that time between analog vinyl albums
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