Time always seems to speed up around the holidays, and the best of gift-buying intentions can quickly become a procrastinator’s panicked nightmare as the shopper’s deadline approaches. The indecisiveness can be crippling, a horrific art of self-sabotaging inactivity. Don’t let it take you down this year!
Lucky for you, Crave’s got your gift ideas covered from top to bottom, in every price range. In addition to gift guides in virtually every channel CraveOnline has to offer, we’ve hand-picked a perfect assortment of items for our 2013 Music Holiday Gift Guide, to take the pain out of picking for the picky. No need to sit in traffic, wait in lines and get caught up in the retail insanity – a few clicks and you’ll be good to go! Check out ten gift ideas for the music lovers in your life.
Music Gift Guide: 10 Gifts To Rock The Holidays
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Concert Posters
PRICE: $20-$500
BUY IT NOW!: Ames Bros, Ground-Up Press, Beyond The PaleA music lover needs an environment reflecting their passions, and an assortment of incredible show poster artists have plenty of options to choose from to give your walls some rockin' visuals. Prints by Ames Bros, Ground-Up Press, Beyond The Pale & more offer reasonable deals on creatively boundless designs for gigs by Queens of The Stone Age, Pearl Jam, the Black Keys, you name it.
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Audioengine 5+ (A5+) Premium Powered Speakers
PRICE: $399
BUY IT NOW!: Audioengine USAIf you're serious about your music, you owe it to yourself to strive for audiophile-quality sound at an affordable price. Connect your computer, iPod, TV or any other audio component for great stereo sound in any room. The original A5 has been revamped to include customer-requested upgrades and features. With custom Kevlar woofers, silk dome tweeters, and hand-built cabinets, the Audioengine 5+ includes a remote control, dual audio inputs and enhanced thermal management. With superior stereo separation and incredible imaging, A5+ has a clear sonic advantage over boomboxes or all-in-one systems. Put it on your wish list or treat yourself this holiday season.
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Nirvana In Utero Box Set
PRICE: $149.98
BUY IT NOW!: Nirvana.comJust in time for its 20th anniversary, Nirvana's final studio album got an enormous box set reissue treatment, with a treasure trove of extras and outtakes.
The 3CD/DVD version of the reissue includes many favorite B-sides and compilation tracks, as well as a December 1993 Seattle live show, demos, and the long-awaited Steve Albini-mixed versions of “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.”
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Spotify Gift Card
PRICE: $10, $30, $50
BUY IT NOW!: SpotifySure, Thom Yorke and Beck might have some harsh words for the service, but the rest of the modern world is all about Spotify's music streaming platform. The perfect gift to help Mom & Dad get started on their digital transition (finally!), or as a more casual gift among friends for the holidays. Physical gift cards can be found in retail, while regional restrictions may apply with the Spotify online store.
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The Audioengine D3 Premium 24-bit DAC
PRICE: $189
BUY IT NOW!: Audioengine USAThis digital-to-analog converter bypasses your computer's headphone jack and sends music directly through USB, making any computer sound noticeably better. With it's high signal-to-noise ratio and low distortion, the D3 delivers sound quality generally heard only in more expensive DACs. The high-performance headphone amplifier was designed for a wide range of headphones and will satisfy even the most demanding headphone enthusiast.
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Smashing Pumpkins Aeroplane Flies High Box Set
PRICE: $89.49
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.comThe reissue for Smashing Pumpkins' platinum-selling 1996 box set The Aeroplane Flies High is flat-out amazing, with dozens and dozens of bonus tracks across a 6-CD +1 DVD package, or 5-LPs and Deluxe Digital and Standard Digital editions. With the original 33 tracks expanded to 104, fans will hear new unreleased demos, alternative versions, live recordings, a 46-page book hand-written by frontman Billy Corgan and more!
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What Is... Puscifer (DVD)
PRICE: $17.98
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.comNov. 26 marks the release of a defining chapter in the fully immersive backwoods enchantment of Puscifer, the latest and most fantastically bizarre project Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Circle) has concocted yet. This part mockumentary/part concert film is a two-hour sketch comedy show-meets-concert film that may as well be called The Red Pill, for its enchanting twists, turns, philosophical bends and peculiar hilarities.
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The Beatles - On Air: Live At The BBC Vol 2
PRICE: $17.98
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.comFor that insatiable Beatles fan in your life, the ultimate gift has arrived: the new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2, featuring a nearly overwhelming 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles’ first BBC release in 1994. The set also includes 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band’s members and their BBC radio hosts.
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The Clash Soundsystem Box Set
PRICE: $189.99
BUY IT NOW!: Music Direct.comThe ultimate box set for The Clash has arrived, featuring the band's first five seminal studio albums, newly remastered by The Clash with engineer Tim Young. That's 8 album CDs, plus 3 CDs of demos, non-album singles, B-sides, rarities and a DVD of previously unseen footage! Add to that some Clash fanzines, a poster, dog tags, stickers, badges and more, and you've got one of the greatest box sets of all time on your hands. But don't just take our word for it - founding guitarist Mick Jones says it all: "The concept of the whole thing is: best box set ever!"
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128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo’s Visual Guide to Music, Culture, and Everything in Between
PRICE: $21.62
BUY IT NOW!: Amazon.comGlobe-trotting twerk-inducing superstar DJ/producer Diplo has spun an assortment of tales from his years of travel into 128 Beats Per Minute: Diplo’s Visual Guide to Music, Culture, and Everything in Between. Take a vicarious trip through the eyes and mind of EDM's girl-adored golden boy.
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Cat Scratch DJ
PRICE: $34.99
BUY IT NOW!: Think Geek.comIf you've got a cat-loving music aficionado in your circles, you can't go wrong with this DJ-themed scratching post that's completely ridiculous and cute as hell all at once. The cat's new claw sharpener will keep it away from that precious vinyl, and provide endless entertainment - or annoyance, depending on which end of the Instagram and Facebook posts you'll be on for the holidays.
