Open Reel Ensemble doesn't play conventional instruments, like guitars, drums and keyboards. Instead, the Japanese band uses reel-to-reel tape recorders built by Pioneer and TEAC in the 1970s and '80s ...

A newly discovered tape of the Beatles laughing and chatting during an early recording session has sold for about $23,000.A newly discovered tape of the Beatles laughing and chatting during an early… ...

"It [the collection was consigned by the artist Alan Sondheim who taught at RISD in the early 1970s, and the work was by ...

While recording “I’ll Follow the Sun” — released on the Beatles For Sale LP — John Lennon and Paul McCartney repeatedly collapse in laughter as they try finish the track. Lennon is heard saying to ...

Less than a year after declaring independence from the quickly dissolving USSR, and shortly before the Baltic Republic of Latvia officially came into being, Modris Skaistkalns aka Mr. Tape, appeared ...

My first musical memory is probably my mother singing me a lullaby. It actually is. [He sings.] I think it's Brahms's Lullaby. [It is.] What drew you to become a musician? I was born in a house where ...