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From the innovator that brought us the revolutionary VHS IS LIFE mold cleaning machine, there’s a new online destination built to bring together every walk of life among the rewind-inclined and those of a physical media mind. Tony Crouch’s REWIND ROLODEX functions like the Yellow Pages for Tapeheads. It’s an online directory focused on video culture: a place where every entity aligned with VHS appreciation, celebration, and preservation, can be seen, heard and connected.    The directory site also expands into physical media and video rental storefronts, digitizing services, and any businesses that are relative and active within tape culture....

  Interview with Mike Beck by Josh Schafer, Dec 1 2025, Raleigh, NC.   Blockbuster Video is arguably the most divisive cultural icon of the 90s. For some, it’s the beacon of premium nostalgia, a literal sign of the times that offered countless movie nights at home, making memories of glory days gone by. To others, the blue and gold ripped ticket represents an evil corporate giant, censoring content, and stomping out the small town Mom and Pop shops that created the foundation for the video rental era.   This is the classic example of both things being true. They...

Yo, Tapeheads! We are wildly VHStoked to team up with author and illustrator extraordinaire Tony Rodriguez to bring you VIDEO FOREVER – an incredibly vibrant and dynamic art book curating a collection of the most colorful video store fronts in the world. VIDEO FOREVER blends art, storytelling, education, and the enduring charm of the video store era.   VIDEO FOREVER Drops SAT, 6/15 at 12PM EST on LUNCHMEATVHS.COM!    This hardcover edition is strictly limited to 100 copies. The first 30 orders receive a signed, high-quality print featuring one of the video stores in the book!       Presented...

By Brantley Palmer  Hey, Tapeheads! I’d like to introduce you to one of the best video stores in the country (until its closing in 2015, at least), Video Headquarters in Keene, New Hampshire. It wasn’t just an amazing physical video retailer. The other thing that made it so special was how this one video store and its owner, Ken McAleer, far outside the film hubs of Los Angeles and New York City, were able to support and benefit other independent video retailers around the country, and how their presence would clash directly with studios and larger chains.      Boasting...

Hey-yo, Tapeheads! We are super VHStoked to team up with Tribeca Film Festival to present the new video store-driven documentary from filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin! KIM’S VIDEO screens at Tribeca on Tueseday, June 13 at 8:30 PM at Village East! You can grab your tickets HERE, and if you use the code LUNCHMEAT, you’ll receive 20% off your ticket!    MORE ON KIM’S VIDEO:  If you were a New Yorker with a taste for unconventional movies, you likely perused the aisles of Kim’s Video and Music. Its owner, Yongman Kim, became as much of a legend as the films...