cassette

With its young band cutting demos on a four-track cassette recorder, “Nimrods” could have been set in 2026, 1996 or 1976 — phones and social media are practically nonexistent in the plot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

It all started with a guitar and a cassette tape.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

In 1986, Bruce Pavitt was just a music-loving guy putting out a cassette zine and writing a column in Seattle’s bi-weekly music paper, “The Rocket.”

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

A lively, talkative little girl, she spoke fluent Korean at the time, and her adoptive father recorded her on a cassette that then sat gathering dust for years.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Later that night, when my uncle and aunt returned from prayers, all my new family gathered around a cassette player on the verandah to listen to stories.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

By 24 September, the custody suite a mile or so away at Paddington Green had access to the video cassettes.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Somewhere in the bowels of my music collection hides 1985’s George Clinton-produced “Freaky Styley” and 1987’s “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” on crumbling cassettes.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

It’s easy to forget that when cassettes debuted in the mid-1960s, the technology was groundbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

A doting Duran Duran-loving sister helped, as did his father’s jazz fusion cassettes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2025

On a Bangkok stopover en route to Manila, he’d bought a number of Thai music cassettes, which he played over and over again at night while he was going over games.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady