Join us for a conversation between Marc Masters and Beca Grimm about Marc's new book High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape. Followed by Q&A at the eyedrum art & music gallery. Doors open at 6pm, talk starts at 7pm. Admission is FREE and all ages are welcome.

A history of the cassette tape, from its technological rise to its cultural impact on listeners, musicians, and movements, up to its recent resurgence among independent-minded music-makers. The cassette altered and shaped the way we make, listen to, and share music, and High Bias shows how.

The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities.

This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.

Marc Masters is a music journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Pitchfork, Bandcamp Daily, NPR Music, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of “No Wave”