What exactly was the 8-Track tape? Gather round youngsters! As the old(er) staffer at Loudwire, when we recently saw National 8-Track Tape Day coming up on the calendar, it sparked some moments of ...

If any cassette ever belonged in an 8-track adapter, it's Led Zeppelin II. Here's where the magic happened. This device was pretty clever. There was a motor driving the cassette mechanism and a ...

If you are a connoisseur of analogue audio, it’s probable you might have a turntable and a stack of records at home somewhere. If you are of a certain age you may even have a cassette deck, though you ...

The 8-track cartridge, aka the Stereo 8, first appeared at trade shows in 1964, just 18 months after the cassette, and it did initially seem to have it all: it was comparatively small, portable, and ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the 8-track player became a symbol of modernity and innovation in the automobile industry. Detroit automakers, synonymous with the American car revolution, embraced this ...