Music gifts: play music, read about music, listen to music, wear clothes with music equipment logos.
An apron with KISS's bass player doing that tongue thing he does. details
Play them with your fingers, hear electronic drums, record it, loop it. details
Hook up an iPod or another mp3 player and it projects a light show that goes with the music. "A total of 33 LEDs compose four light modes: Smooth, Flow, Vibe, and Pulse." It's like a screen saver for real life. details
Smells like... Kurt Cobain! Complete with lefty Mustang and racing stripes. details
Plug your guitar into its 1/4" jack, plug it into your computer, and look at all the effects you get. details
iPods? Oh, please. The 21st-century Swiss Army knife does several of the typical things in addition to being an MP3 player and USB storage device. And it can cut you, man. details
Two speakers and a volume switch for your iPod or MP3 player, but much cooler than any Bose docking station, because it looks like a ghetto blaster. A cardboard kit that you build yourself. details
1 and 2 and 3 and 4, really big drumsets, an obnoxious Eurotrash accent... Everything you need to master Complicated Drumming Technique. details
E is the most popular key for acoustic blues; play an A harp with that and draw more notes than you blow, and it will sound bluesy. (Or get a D harp to play with a band playing in A, etc.) details
Car sirens, ringing cell phones, little dog barking, fingernails on a chalk board, and 95 more annoying noises. details
Looks like an old audio cassette, but actually a memory stick holding 64 megs. Fill it up with tunes and write out the playlist on the accompanying cardboard label, and give it as a very cool gift. details
Ebony and ivory and qwerty. OK, plastic and qwerty, but it's all the keyboard you'll ever need. details
A classic percussion instrument for latin music at a great price. details
With one 8" speaker, you won't blow any windows out, but you also won't find a better coolness/price ratio in any other amp. (Don't miss the T-shirt.) details
Hendrix on "Voodoo Chile"! Clapton on "White Room!" This is it—the original Crybaby Wah Wah pedal. details
Legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus' autobiography. More about his sex life than music; chock full of useful tips for the guys! details
Plug in your ax and headphones. Handmade. Comes with 9V battery. Goes great with the Hello Kitty Pink Mini Strat, Squier Mini Red or Black Strat, the Cheap Squier Telecaster, the Cheap Epiphone SG, or the Cheap Epiphone Les Paul. details
3/4 size, also available in black, which may look cooler, but red Strats can look cool too. details
A DRM-free MP3 music store. You may not find the latest Justin Timberlake hits there, but they have tons of great stuff from a wide variety of categories (over 2 million MP3s from more than 90,000 albums as of May of 2007), and you get 30 DRM-free MP3s a month for $9.99 or 50 for $14.99 after the 25 free songs you get for signing up. 8 Belle and Sebastian albums! 11 Howlin' Wolf albums! 12 Charlie Mingus albums! 48 Luaka Bop albums! Gift certificates available. details
The classic pedal steel brand. Excellent with a trucker hat for that faux redneck look! details
Anarchy in the UK! Baloney and cheese on white bread with a banana and three Oreos in a Baggie! Now it all makes sense. details