Torres, Sprinter, Sprinter, Partisan, 2015.Sleater Kinney, Surface Envy, No Cities to Love, Sub Pop, 2015.Eleventh Dream Day, Go Tell It, Works For Tomorrow, Thrill Jockey, 2015.Redbone, Come and Get Your Love, Wovoka, Epic, 1973.The Soup Dragons, Pleasantly Surprised, Hang-Ten!, Sire, 1987.Bow Wow Wow, C30, C60, C90 Go, The Best of Bow Wow Bow, RCA, 1996.Metallica, Hit the Lights, Kill ‘Em All, Megaforce, 1983.Taylor Swift featuring Kendrick Lamar, Bad Blood.

Lupe Fiasco, Madonna and Other Mothers in the Hood.

The Decemberists, The Singer Addresses His Audience.

Snooty Garbagemen, No Such Thing as Superman.

Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment, Sunday Candy.

Death Cab for Cutie, The Ghosts of Beverly Drive.

Le Butcherettes, Oil the Shoe If the Critter Knew Any Better.

Listen to Greg’s Mixtape Jim DeRogatis’s 2015 Mixtape

Courtney Barnett, Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party.

The Best Songs of 2015: Mixtapesīefore we fully jump into 2016, let’s say goodbye to 2015 with the year’s best singles. Jim and Greg talk to Steve Stepp, the owner of the National Audio Company, about this surprising comeback.

Despite the convenience of mp3 files, cassette-tape listeners value the sound and sentiment of this old-fashioned music medium. In fact, the best-selling release of Record Store Day this year was not a vinyl record at all but a cassette- Metallica’s No Life Til Leather, selling close to 3,000 copies. and MGMT have put out cassette tapes to a widely positive response. In recent years, big-name bands like Dinosaur Jr. The National Audio Company – the biggest of the few audio cassette producers that still exist – reported upward of 10 million cassettes sold in 2014 and a 20% increase in profit. Much like vinyl, cassette tapes are peeking out from obsolescence to make a significant reappearance. And in this age of instantly downloadable music, the real question is: has anyone?Īs it turns out, yes. On this mixtape-centric episode of Sound Opinions, Jim and Greg confess they haven’t recently listened to an actual cassette tape. Audio player Download Subscribe via iTunes The Return of the Cassette

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