Music

Ravenchord Piano

The Ravenchord Piano. Surprisingly, that name checks out. Top to bottom. The instrument is a stunning new creation from Dan Harden, CEO of the award-winning product and experience design firm Whipsaw. They're also responsible...

Pickaso Guitar Bow

$79.99 - $99 Pickaso »

You can strum your guitar, you can pick your guitar, you can slide your guitar, and now thanks to Pickaso, you can bow your guitar. Nope, not tie your guitar up in a pretty bow, and not bow to your guitar - though feel...

TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist Sounds Speaker

TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist's Sounds high-performance wireless speaker looks like a high-rise building hatching from a slab of stone. It's as much a piece of high art as high fidelity. And something you can't tell by...

Mother Earth's Plantasia - An Album for Houseplants

$9.49 - $48.88 Amazon »

If Mother Earth's Plantasia, an actual album recorded with 10 actual songs for houseplants, sounds like some hippie dippie stuff from the 70s, well. That's because Mother Earth's Plantasia is indeed some hippie dippie...

BALMUDA The Speaker

$318 Amazon »

BALMUDA The Speaker is BALMUDA's much-anticipated follow-up to BALMUDA The...Toaster? Huh. Who knew the experts on steaming bread into toast were also experts on acoustics? Wonder what paradoxical method BALMUDA uses...

Sirius P5 Sci-Fi Earbuds with Interchangeable Cases

$89.95 Gravastar »

GravaStar has some Sirius sci-fi and Sirius cyberpunk for audiophiles in their Sirius P5 Earbuds. The company says it's the first to offer interchangeable cases to house and charge wireless buds, and their debut line's...

Pro-Ject x Metallica Ninja Star Turntable

$1,599 Metallica »

Metallica's Ninja Star Turntable, a collaboration with Pro-Ject Audio, brings back childhood memories of possibly being afraid of the song "Enter Sandman," and having a babysitter who always played it about 17 times throughout...

GPods - Earbuds With Light Control

$79 - $99 HHOGENE »

GPods, self-described as the world's first earbuds with light control, could be simple earphones with red pill / blue pill-looking baubles that flash your favorite LED colors light one of those smart light bulbs, or a...

Studebaker Portable Boombox

$199.99 Amazon »

Studebaker's SB2140R Portable Boombox is a mashup of the ages. Housed in its prime 80s case are a Boomer AM/FM radio, a Gen X cassette deck, a Millennial CD player, and a Gen Z Bluetooth receiver and transmitter. The...

Conduction Labs Allegro Open-Ear Headphones

$59.95 Conduction Labs »

Conduction Labs Allegro Earphones send audio right into your earhole without ever touching it. Kind of like how your brother used to dangle his finger in front of your face, sending peak levels of annoyance and rage right...

The Hydra Guitar

The Hydra Guitar might not have as many heads (well, necks) as its mythological namesake, but it has 3 times as many as a standard guitar and, more importantly, looks to have the same disposition as its serpentine sea...

LAVA ME 2 Carbon Fiber Guitar with Effects

$399 Amazon »

While I can't play a guitar, and know nothing about guitar builds and quality, I do LAVA ME some carbon fiber, and LAVA's LAVA ME 2 unibody guitar is made with Super AirSonic carbon fiber material. And not only to make...

OMA K3 Cast Iron Turntable

Girl, put your records on...but don't try to move the record player. The platter alone on OMA's K3 cast iron turntable weighs over 30 pounds...

Reddick Voyager Modular Guitar

$1,499.99 Reddick »

According to Reddick, "Voyager is a boutique modular guitar designed for the gigging musician." And if this Dude is anything, I am...farther away from being a gigging musician than The Beatles are from getting back together...

Nothing ear (1) Wireless Earbuds

"Dude, check out my new wireless earbuds." "Dude, where? I see nothing." "Naw, dude, you see Nothing. Nothing ear (1)'s - they're tiny, they're wireless, and they're clear." "Dude, sweet. Why clear?" "Dude...I don't know...

Pocket Piano - Modular, Magnetic Portable Piano

$1,032 - $1,215 Pocket Piano »

The Pocket Piano isn't quite pocket-sized, but this modular, snap-together magnetic piano is definitely portable enough to take and set up anywhere you want to play a 7-octave, 2-pedaled professional piano. Your mama's...

Hringpoki Guitar Pick

$45 - $175 Etsy »

Joy Complex calls their Hringpoki Guitar Pick a deliberate effort to create "the most unique guitar pick in the world." And also, they admit with unabashed frankness, "the most expensive." Optionally most expensive, I'd...

LUMI Keys Light-Up Portable Keyboard & Piano Teacher

$299 Lumi »

Chopsticks meets Chopin meets chomp, chomping up alien music notes in a LUMI Keys arcade-style piano tutorial. LUMI Keys is a portable keyboard and piano teacher. It accomplishes the former with a 2-octave digital piano...

Marshall Mode II True Wireless Earbuds

AirPods, Galaxy Buds, Bose QuietComfort - you've all had your turn in the true wireless earbuds spotlight. With their Mode II in-ear Bluetooth headphones, the Marshall audio brand is hoping to turn you all into Jans crying...

Rainbow Customizable Hi-Fi Headphones with 3D Sound

$120 Monixibi »

You might choose your headphones for the sound of them, but there's nothing wrong with the sight of them getting you pumped to pump some audio too. Minoxidil's Rainbows are modular over-ear headphones that will boost...

McIntosh MHA200 Vacuum Tube Headphone Amplifier

$2,499 McIntosh »

McIntosh has a swell idea for drowning out the sound of too much time at home with the fam: a vacuum. Actually, 4 vacuums - the pairs of 12AT7 and 12BH7A dual triode vacuum tubes that power their MHA200 Headphone Amplifier...

Artiphon Orba Musical Instrument

$100 MoMA »

Orba looper doompety doo / I've got a handheld soundbox for you / Orba MIDI doompety dee / Tap to make music immediately. Couldn't quite fit synthesizer in there, but the Artiphon Orba Musical Instrument is that too -...

The CityRadio - Major City Radio Stations in Real Time

$113 Palomar »

Tune in, Tokyo, tune in, Tokyo - holy crap, CityRadio! It worked! That never happens when I try it with boobies. (Though as cool as the CityRadio is, the game is still more fun with boobies. Am I right, young Jonathan...

Steel Tongue Drum

Sold Out Amazon »

Want to march to the beat of your own steel tongue drum? Don't worry, it's not the kind of percussion instrument you mash on like a drum kit. The steel tongue drum is relaxing, meditative; its 11-tone pentatonic scales...