~ Trade Paperback
~ New Release - 2023
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
Charting the journey of the cassette tape from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to its decline at the birth and rise of the compact disc, High Bias illuminates how this little invention upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.
Celebrating cassette tapes as dangerous, vital and radical, High Bias introduces readers to the stories of underground tape artists, concert tape bootleggers, mixtape message makers, tape hunters who rescue forgotten sounds, and modern labels who reject streaming in favor of continuing cassettes.
“A loving tribute, High Bias is a clever taxonomy of cassette culture and its various subcults.” -- Wall Street Journal