Back in 1988, Kurt Cobain did what all the other cool kids were doing at the time: He made a mix tape. But instead of songs like "Never Gonna Give You Up," the tape the 21-year-old put together on ...

The pictures revealed the tapes were recorded on an AMPEX 1-inch Video Tape Recorder. There were three different standardized types of AMPEX machines, but it wouldn’t be impossible to find a ...

It’s strange to think about now, but for many of us 80s and 90s kids, the humble recorder would’ve been our very first taste of music and it likely inspired some of our classmates to go on to ...