There are 10 days until Christmas, which means there are only approximately 9.6 shopping days left in the holiday season. Chances are you've locked down your shopping list and you've got it all sorted out (congratulations!), but if you're like us, you've still got some shopping left to do. So Michael Christopher and Michael Marotta of Vanyaland put their Michaelness together to whip up a 2016 Holiday Gift Guide, geared towards the music lover in your life. Yeah yeah, we know, we should have published this shit right after Thanksgiving (turns out we're as tardy with our publishing as we are with our shopping). But we live in the age of expedited shipping, so buck up, order some of the goods below, or use it as a template as you venture into the commercial brick and mortar war zones this weekend.
Stockwell Bluetooth Speaker
Designed to look like the classic Marshall amp, the Stockwell Bluetooth speaker is one of the best sounding – and loudest – for such a small stature out there. That might have something to do with the two 2.25” woofers and two class-D amplifiers contained within the unit. The three knobs on the top for volume, bass and treble are retractable, so they can be set and pushed back in, keeping the preferred settings intact while traveling. The Stockwell can also be used to answer phone calls, and even has a USB port on the back so you don’t drain your phone’s battery, or just plug something else into it that needs charging. There’s also an optional flip cover case available with a red velvet lining made to look like the inside to a guitar casing.
$229, available at Marshall Headphones.
— Michael Christopher
