Airships Are The Future

Published July 7th in Historical Exhibition


Photo of newspaper article: B. Stone (Founder of the internet's telegraph, Twitter!!!!)

Some are saying airships are the future!

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Live this weekend!

Published June 12th in Shows
Yes, The Cassettes are playing this weekend in Richmond, VA and on Sunday in Arlington at IOTA CLUB AND CAFE.. our last Arlington local appearances until the FALL when we will return with our new album in tow! 0 comments | Post a comment

Fixed gear... steampunk.

Published May 22nd in Of High Importance


This article by Momus about fixed gear bikes I think captures some spirit of what I think is "steampunk". Steampunk is more than a throwback cosplay consisting of RPG and theatre nerds putting on turn of the century clothing and pretending they are characters in Chrono Trigger. It's very much now... and it's looking back and carefully choosing the well-crafted things in the past from clothing, gears, music, tradition and reinventing/re-adopting them for now.

I think Steampunk CAN "blow up" in the mainstream and like anything that is eaten by major media there will be a split of "fashion steampunks" (whom as of now I would like to name "steamos") and steampunks that are into the whole concept beyond the clothing. It can be seen as a version of the whole disconnect between the DIY Dischord-inspired punk-ethic to the Good Charlotte "punk" of mainstream media culture.

But I digress... here is the excerpt from Momus' article that spoke to me... the whole article is also linked afterwards:

"Limitation is what gives something flavour. Nobody wants a bassoon that can also sound like a guitar, although for a while synth makers gave us digital sampling synths which were supposed to be able to make any sound known to man. It turned out, though, that people wanted synths that sounded like synths -- analog synths, the ones that didn't sound like anything else. Well, fixie bikes are like that. They're like Lomo cameras, digital synths, vinyl record players. Their limitations -- the things they can't do -- are a crucial part of their lo-fi charm. It's amazing how few marketers and manufacturers understand the value of limitation. People don't want you to be able to -- or claim to be able to -- do it all. They want you to be able to do one thing, and have a flavour.

This, by the way, is also why postmodernism is failing. Nobody wants a culture which eats and quotes all others. That culture, that society, will turn out to have no flavour of its own. Nobody will be able to remember what it was about, and nobody will be able to revive it."

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Megablog

Published May 13th in Coffee, Tea & Travels
Megablog is a blog dedicated to the biggest, the largest, the most expansive, and superlatives as they shape the built environment. Can we even luxuriate to imagine such ambitious progress? A tunnel directly through the earth? 0 comments | Post a comment

New York Times: Your Article on Steampunk has a Pedestrian and Uninteresting Title!

Published May 8th in Of High Importance
New York Times Steampunk Article
We, at the Cassettes would like to suggest that the New York Times modify it's article title to read as follows:
Venerable and Most Industrious Worldview Energizes America
Kind Words for Pioneer Practioners who Endured Hardship and Privation.
Notable Exposition of Steampunk.

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NASA Show A Success

Published April 15th in Of High Importance


Our show at NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER in Maryland was a huge success! We also managed to convert the space capsule and go back in time! We hope to return again to the good people of NASA and be the first band in the upper... 1 comments | Post a comment

Yuri's Night April 12th, 2008

Published March 30th in Shows

All ages show:
THE CASSETTES At Yuri's Night 2008
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Visitor's Center
IceSat Road, Greenbelt MD

All ages
Doors at 8pm
$10 Cover
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Australian Release

Published March 30th in Of High Importance

On the 28th of March our CD has been released as a DOUBLE CD in Australia on Rogue Records (a subsidiary of Inertia Music )! One can purchase it directly from Rogue by clicking here! We have been doing a stream of interviews and such for Australian...

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The Lab, April 5th, 2008

Published March 29th in Shows

All ages show:
THE CASSETTES w/ Nunchucks, Tsarina
THE LAB
1819 N. Quaker Lane (at Crestwood Drive)
Alexandria VA 22302


All ages
Doors at 8pm
$5 Cover
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CassettesWorld Presents: The J-O-Matic with Arthur Harrison

Published March 16th in Of High Importance
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