cassette

As a child I was once gifted a “custom” cassette tape with songs “written for me.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

It was made by a company called Kidselebration that in 1986 made “personalized” cassette tapes like these for a whole boatload of names.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Dad labelled everything, recorded everything and backed it all up to cassette, over and over," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The more he listens to the cassette, the more he likes what he hears and the more his spirits rise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Esther must have noticed what was happening to me, because she took the cassette from me and put it in her bag.

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

To commemorate the release, Rideaux and Hussle’s team dropped multiple limited edition vinyl records of the album as well as cassettes and T-shirts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Along the conveyor belts runs everything you could imagine, from shoes, to old VHS cassettes and blocks of concrete.

From BBC ● May 4, 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

Although it's very much a niche market, cassettes also saw a 53.8% sales increase to 164,491 units in 2025.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

During holidays, he brought me cassettes and taught my friends and me how to dance to what we came to know as hip-hop.

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