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Mirror Universe Tapes Helps Revive Interest in a Once-Dead Formatnew

It's hardly worth declaring a cassette revival, or even to say tapes are the new vinyl. But the recent success of the Charleston-based cassette-only record label Mirror Universe Tapes seems to indicate otherwise.
Charleston City Paper  |  Bryan Reed  |  10-14-2009  |  Music

Point Juncture, WA Creates Weird Tapes Projectnew

Instead of releasing normal full-length records on cassette, what if they used tapes as a creative jump -- off for their friends' home experiments -- those that, otherwise, would never escape the bedroom?
Willamette Week  |  Michael Mannheimer  |  05-28-2008  |  Profiles & Interviews

War Zones, Shipwrecks and Romance Caught on Cassettenew

What follows are excerpts from three tales, discovered on discarded cassette tapes. Three men, at different stages in their lives, reflect on relationships -- with their parents, with strangers in a strange land and even with a buzzing 1920s city named Detroit.
Metro Times  |  Rebecca Mazzei  |  04-22-2008  |  Culture

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