With services like Spotify and Apple Music, listening to your favorite artists is easier than ever, and many assume physical media no longer holds much value. For most CDs, cassettes, and even vinyl, ...

Marc Sendik has seen many a music format rise and fall and rise again: the vinyl album, the compact disc, even the humble cassette. But the 8-track cartridge? When Sendik, who owns High Fidelity ...

National 8-Track Tape Day is observed on April 11 every year to celebrate the great music of the 60s and 70s that have been immortalized on 8-track tapes. Developed by William Powell Lear, a jet plane ...

The old box of 8-track tapes sat on the closet floor, untouched and unwanted for years. When it was pulled out into the light, the contents looked more like the inside of a gumball machine than it did ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is an audio and video creator at The Verge since 2015. The Oh Sees’ latest release is a 12-album box set in an ...

CORRECTION, Dec. 31: This story originally misidentified the band that released Business as Usual. For Jason Niebaum, who’s known as “The 8-Track Guy,” getting musicians to sign 8-track tapes is less ...

8-track tapes are a curious technology. They were only briefly popular, specifically in the context of the North American automotive industry of the 1960s through the 1980s. As an analog magnetic ...

An earlier magnetic tape cartridge technology introduced by Lear Jet in 1964 as Stereo 8, although widely known by its 8-track moniker. Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz Autostereo, ...

A song I hadn’t heard in a long time played on my car radio the other day, and I realized just how long it had been since I’d heard it because my ears went out of synch for a moment when the song didn ...

The electronics from the cassette adapter are simply placed inside an old 8-track tape, with holes cut in the chassis for the charge port and on switch. Then, all you need to do is pop the adapter ...