Beck’s Edison bottle merges suds and sounds
Beck’s takes a cue from the history books to create the first playable beer bottle.
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Pop socks: Miike Snow adorns feet with jackalopes
Miike Snow and Happy Socks team up in a Swedish power pairing that will leave your feet covered in jackalope silhouettes.
Unlocking the Truth: Not your typical ’tween music
Sixth-graders Jarad Dawkins and Malcolm Brickhouse expound on their lives as some of the youngest metal-heads around.
Hip helmet: A hand-painted job courtesy of Corpses from Hell
Maxwell Paternoster — designer and illustrator behind the motorcycle club Corpses from Hell — sat down in a London diner to adorn Ruby’s Castel helmet with his acid-trip vision. Here are the gold-leafed results, complete with melting greasers, zombie hands, and circuitry.
Amps to 11 (PM): Marshall’s Hanwell home-speaker system
As one of the most iconic names in amps over the past 50 years, Marshall is a name that’s synonymous with music. Now, for the first time, you can bring its sound and design to your living room with the special-edition Hanwell hi-fi home-speaker system.
5 last-minute Father’s Day gifts
Still haven’t picked out a Father’s Day gift this year? Let us suggest a few last-minute ideas.
Backstage Confidential: Brent Amaker on naughty bits and prison performance
When you’re on the road as much as country-western front-man Brent Amaker, you’re bound to see unusual things. And when your typical show includes burlesque dancers and “whiskey baptisms,” things can get downright weird.
Marshall Monitor: Stacked sound in a pair of headphones
Sometimes the rules of etiquette have a thing or two to say about blasting a volume-pinned Marshall stack in public. Sometimes the rules of etiquette are exhausting.
Introducing the Wheelharp: Part barrel, keyboard, and hurdy gurdy
Hoping to bridge the gap between live and synthesized, Kickstarter’s latest oddity (the Wheelharp) is a barrel-shaped keyboard instrument with the ability to produce actual bowed-string sounds.
Dim-sum sneakers? See Puma’s food-themed products
The latest collaboration between Puma and Hypebeast pays homage to that most wonderful of mid-morning meals: dim sum.
