When Minneapolis drummer and music fanatic Michael Reiter went to the merch stand to buy a CD by Los Angeles buzz band Wand after a local gig last week, he was out of luck. The band had only vinyl ...

According to the American listening public, the vinyl LP just isn’t stacking up anymore. It seems this new kid on the block, the compact disc, combined with an improved cassette tape, is squeezing out ...

If it weren't for my love for music and the arts, this column would not exist. Over the years, I’ve shared countless testimonies of its power. Music is a healer and unifier. I learned how to love a ...

PHILADELPHIA — The vinyl resurgence has been keeping independent record stores alive for years, and it hit a milestone in 2020: Music fans spent more money on LPs than CDs last year for the first time ...

Cassette tapes brought Veronika Cloutier to Pittsburgh. Vinyl LPs have kept her here. Before moving to Pittsburgh from North Carolina in 2021, the former vocalist and guitarist for the band Attack Cat ...

Cassettes were my gateway into hi-fi. In my early years, this was my format of choice. Cheap, portable and robust, cassettes were way more accessible to eight-year-old me than vinyl records. I write ...

My first car was a silver 1990 Buick Park Avenue handed down from my grandmother, and like all early '90s cars, it came equipped with a tape deck. It always had a cassette loaded. Most were homemade: ...

AUSTIN, Texas — On the second day of this year’s South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival, Philadelphia-based Free Energy, like other buzzed-about acts, played the Levi’s Fader Fort, a ...

Vinyl records aren’t the only analog music media undergoing a revival in the modern era. A company that specializes in another nostalgic format — cassette tapes — just had its best year ever. NAC is ...