With services like Spotify and Apple Music, listening to your favorite artists is easier than ever before, and many assume that physical media no longer holds much value. For the large majority of CDs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bill Lear didn’t invent the concept of a tape cartridge, he inherited a flawed one and made it actually work. According to the format’s sourced history on Wikipedia, the lineage traces back to George ...

It's National 8-Track Tape Day, so I might as well make a confession: Sometimes, when my mind gets weird, I wonder if aliens might someday swoop down and ask to borrow my 8-track of Deep Purple's ...