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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors, even strangers — ...

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 ...

Remember good ol’ 8-track tape? This old-school sound-recording technology was around from the mid-1960s to around the early 1980s before the compact cassette tape became the hot new thing in music ...

Through the ages, we've seen several physical music formats come and go. These mediums are each very much a product of their time, with distinct strengths, weaknesses, and attributes that make them ...