Ever bought a DJ mix tape? Perhaps you appreciate a specific DJ's skills, or their selection of super fresh hip-hop, house or drum & bass tunes. Perhaps you've discovered artists and albums you'd ...

Got some old cassette tapes lying around? I thought not. But keep reading anyway, as Thanko's Cassette Mate is quite a curiosity, in a retro-useless kind of way. Looking like a Walkman that has been ...

After a harrowing 2007 — a year that started with the arrest of leading mix-tape maker DJ Drama — hip-hop mix tapes played it cool in 2008. Collections co-signed by top-level talent were scarce, ...

In heart-tugging drama Mix Tape, two ex-lovers are thrown back together with the music they wooed each other with 20 years earlier. Here, writers dig out their most treasured tapes and CDs full of ...

Despite the plethora of plus-points stemming from the dawn of the digital music era, it’s difficult not to hanker for the halcyon days of yore, when mix-tapes ruled the roost. I’m sure mix-tapes can’t ...

Donald Barks' record collection was impressive, even way back in 1985. Now, the stay-at-home dad has more than 4,000 albums on vinyl, stacked high along the walls of his Oakland home. He had more than ...

Recently, I started on a quest to find some hot new makeout music. I found Milly Beau. And now I've discovered Katie Costello, whose new album, Lamplight, is an intimate collection of sultry notes, ...

Dan Lipton longs for the good ole days. Looking back, there’s a particular beauty in simpler things ─ like hopping in the family’s station wagon with a collection of your favorite cassette tapes for a ...