National 8-Track Tape Day is observed on April 11 every year to celebrate the great music of the 60s and 70s that have been immortalized on 8-track tapes. Developed by William Powell Lear, a jet ...

The 8-track cartridge, aka the Stereo 8, first appeared at trade shows in 1964, just 18 months after the cassette, and it did initially seem to have it all: it was comparatively small, portable ...

But over time, as the 8-track’s faults were realized and cassettes got a closer look. They were also smaller and cheaper to make. Cassette tapes did have their drawbacks. Working with tape ...

For nearly four decades, Bob Hiemenz has been the pied piper of eight-track tapes. They've followed him wherever he goes. As he'd move from town to town, people — friends, neighbors ...

although widely known by its 8-track moniker. Stereo 8 was an 8-track version of the 4-track Muntz Autostereo, the first commercial music player for a car. Stereo 8 allowed two stereo recordings ...

Metallica will revisit their 1996 album Load ... more live shows, soundboard tapes and more. In total, the set houses 245 unreleased songs. The DVDs feature making-of footage from the studio ...

You can see all the configurations at Metallica's website and see the full track listing below. Hetfield describes the album's concept in an official statement: "Seventy-two seasons. The first 18 ...

as time constraints forced the track to be cut short on the original 78-minute-and-59-second-long album. Ahead of the reissue’s arrival, Metallica shared the lyric video for the remastered ...