When I was a much younger woman, I remember when the animated-only band Gorillaz went on tour and thinking something along the lines of, “Literally, how?” Maybe it was being a broke-ish college student at the time and the haze of waiting tables at a mall Italian restaurant. But paying a concert ...

Data is one of the most valuable commodities on the planet, and the people sitting on the biggest piles of it are a shrinking club of media and tech conglomerates horse-trading billions of dollars and data harvested through surveillance tech. There are obvious exceptions, but streaming services, ...

“Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.” Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composers Sound Practice, 2005 Link to FRFT Winter 2025 Mix.

It's hard out there. It's virtually impossible to keep track of what companies are engaging in extractive business practices, either as ad-tech surveillance to auction your info to the highest bidder, and/or feeding your content into the juicy maw of a proprietary LLM. Thus- we thought it might ...

Reading Please Kill Me on the middle school bus. Dumpster diving in high school for Pepsi bottle caps because Apple was doing a “free song with every bottle” Pepsi promotion around the Super Bowl. (LimeWire was too taboo for the family computer.) Collecting literal change in a styrofoam cup with ...

A friendly reminder that Tape Trade is a lossless streaming and storage platform. After you upload, you can send your collections to anyone, anywhere, for easy streaming and download, or just review your own music anywhere the way it was meant to be heard.

Yes, it's a little on the nose for a tech company, no matter how small, to come out strongly in favor of having customers pay for services. Imagine! The conspicuous conclusion of paying us for our software in particular would be a nice by-product, but at a level beyond the success/failure of this ...

Art is not made on a grand scale in some mythological process. It's made with long hours and attention to detail, and shaped in small, crucial exchanges and inputs over weeks and months or longer. These exchanges happen everywhere, from listening to a work in a new space, hearing thoughts from a ...

We're excited to debut v2 "Tweed" today, on all platforms.

Our Conspicuous Absence in the Drone Market At Tape Trade, Inc. we've built our reputation on a singular, unwavering commitment: safeguarding the delicate, ephemeral beauty of sound. From the raw demo to the mastered album, we are digital custodians of artistic expression. So, it might come as a ...