Watch out Vinyl because Cassettes are making a comeback too…

Watch out vinyl there is another comeback kid on the block… Cassettes! I wonder how Travis Gauthier with Acadiana Vinyl Haul feels about this?!

Anywho, apparently the cassette revival isn’t just for internet think pieces: It was the subject of an “NBC Nighty News” segment that aired this past Sunday night, as Stereogum points out. As NBC’s Kate Snow puts it: “When the CD came along we chucked all those old cassettes, but guess what? They’re back!”

The segment focused on the National Audio Company, a tape manufacturing plant in Missouri. There are interviews with the plant’s employees, close-up action footage of the tapes being produced, shots of tapes by Diet Cig, and a brief interview with Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin‘s Philip Dickey.

Read “This Is Not a Mixtape”, Marc Hogan’s feature on cassette culture.

-Matt@1063RL

Info Video pitchfork.com nbc.com