Newbies are hitting the rewind button on cassettes: “Everything Old is New Again," #Baylor expert says

Pop and vintage music expert Robert Darden of Baylor University, a former editor with Billboard Magazine, is available for interviews about international independent cassette labels and how music enthusiasts — especially fans of heavy metal bands — are fanning the so-called “low-fi” craze. Oct. 17 is Cassette Store Day.Darden, a former gospel music editor for Billboard, is a professor of journalism, public relations and new media in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences. He also is a champion of vinyl, rescuing old warped and scratched gospel records from “the golden age of black gospel music” to digitize them through Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. To learn more about vinyl and cassette trends, visit http://www.baylor.edu/mediacommunications/news.php?action=story&story=161868