Several items are synonymous with the golden age of hip hop in the 1980s: thick gold rope chains, fuzzy Kangol caps and enormous boom boxes. It was this train of thought that led Dreams Chow Yin-chi ...

There will never be anything quite like the mix tape. For better or worse, it really changed the way people listened to music. So it’s sort of bittersweet to see Sony releasing its final ...

BrussPup, we well know, is a master of illusions. For his next trick, watch him render an impressively detailed boombox using only unraveled cassette tape. Don’t worry, you’ll remember what both of ...

While testing out the We Are Rewind GB-001, the cassette-tape boombox with modern connectivity, something clicks in my brain. As I’m cueing up tracks and recording them to a ferric oxide cassette tape ...

Cassette tapes were a major way of listening to (and recording) music througout the 1980s and 1990s and were in every hi-fi stereo, boom box, and passenger vehicle of the era. Their decline was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Channel the 80's with this retro boombox available in four hot colors Retro just jumped a generation. Forget record ...