There was a time when cassette tapes were essential. You would rewind them with a pencil and record songs straight off the ...

Yet cassette tapes are having a moment. According to Luminate, an entertainment industry data collector, U.S. tape sales increased by more than 440 percent between 2015 and 2022.

HOGAN: "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is among the thousands of tapes the company has produced. National Audio got its start in 1968, just a few years after the cassette tape was invented.

Back-to-the-future adventurers can tape their LPs, and take pure analog sound on the road with an old Sony Walkman cassette player, or buy a brand new portable player.

On a mid-January morning in Springfield, Mo., a tractor-trailer backs up to the National Audio Company’s loading dock and unloads more than 600,000 empty compact cassette shells from factories ...