As the 1980s began, Pete Shelley found himself at a low ebb. Since their very first gigs in 1976, his band Buzzcocks had ...

If you think of a 1960s mainframe computer, it’s likely that your mental image includes alongside the cabinets with the blinkenlights, a row of reel-to-reel tape drives. These ...

So far, so archival reissue of an underheard post punk band from the 1980s ... That their music has been reissued on tape in 2025 situates them in a slow trajectory of DIY experimentalism that ...

“[Cassettes] have never gone away, especially in the DIY-type punk scenes – it’s always easier to make 20 tapes than it is to make 20 records,” Morton said, “but more people are buying ...

“Punk rock” and “flea market” might seem ... some with unusual subject matter such as skulls, fangs, or cassette tapes. She says of the flea market, “It’s a great event.

After joining forces in Chicago, the band known as Bag People became a source of weirdo vitality in New York’s early ’80s post-punk/no ... some long-lost cassettes. The tapes have been turned ...

The Hattiesburg label Earth Girl Tapes mostly releases music from ... People Talking, a new cassette EP from the Chicago punk band Cucuy, dropped via Earth Girl a couple days after Christmas.

“Revival of a Friend,” includes lyrics about driving down the interstate while singing along repeatedly to a beloved cassette; the tape in question was by the Southern California punk-rock ...

For Glasgow’s indie and punk bands, as with today’s independent ... may feel quite far removed from the recent embrace of cassette tapes by mainstream pop stars, each arguably has its roots ...

The Cassette Tape and the Birth of Hip-Hop The cassette ... hip-hop tape trading like punk and metal flourished on the internet. Collectors traded tapes via message boards and AOL chat groups.