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The cassette tape is the audio equivalent of the AK-47: cheap and easy to mass manufacture; highly usable with the minimum of skills and experience; and a symbol and tool of revolutions. Marc Masters doesn’t use that metaphor in his excellent and truly exciting book on cassette tapes, but he doesn’t have to. He outlines the story of how the cassette came to be the dominant recording medium on a global scale during the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, and by doing so shows how essential ca...

Late Junction's Casseptember will explore how the new format proved a watershed moment in the democratisation of audio culture

Sixty years since the cassette tape was invented in Germany, Middle East Eye traces how it became a vehicle for cultural, political, and religious innovation across the Middle East

When Yamen Mekdad and Mark Gergis met in 2018, the pair combined their love of Syrian cassettes into a project aiming to save them — and share them more widely.

When Yamen Mekdad and Mark Gergis met in 2018, the pair combined their love of Syrian cassettes into a project aiming to save them — and share them more widely.

When Yamen Mekdad and Mark Gergis met in 2018, the pair combined their love of Syrian cassettes into a project aiming to save them — and share them more widely.

Great news for fans of effortlessly weird American rock group Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (henceforth TFUL 282): The new Portland label Bulbous Monocle will reissue several titles from their long out-of-print catalog, beginning with two of their more “accessible” offerings: the 1993 EP Admonishing the Bishops and the 1994 album Strangers From the Universe. Both will be available digitally August 5 and on vinyl October 15. Mark Gergis—who’s worked with the revered Sea...

A Dadaist tornado more mind-blowing than CBGB’s infamous bathroom situation.

A Bay Area woman discovers her 77-year-old mother's past life as 'Vietnam's first rock star.'

“When you play these wedding tracks for a crowd in London, people jump off the roof, the music has that much energy. It’s so raw and so real and you feel that it’s thousands of years of accumulation of festivities being unleashed on people. I see the importance of sharing this onwards and onwards and onwards.”