Jack White’s Third Man Records has teamed up with Nixon to create custom headphones based on Nixon’s Master Blaster design featuring a mini Third Man 45. The headphones will be sold in limited quantities at the Third Man store in Nashville. The Master Blaster’s typically retail for $200, but no word on how much these will cost.

(via Consequence of Sound)

Boom Cases are classy vintage stereo suitcases that can be made from a variety of suit cases or even your own that you send in. The cases start at $250 with additional costs for add ons such as battery packs, ipod/iphone charger and solar power.

Check out some more Boom Cases below. You can purchase them on IamSimo’s Etsy Shop.

Have you ever tried recording concert footage with a flip cam or your iPhone…it usually sounds like FFFSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH (best consonants I could use to describe static sound). Samson has luckily developed a small HD camera, the Zoom Q3HD that takes sound quality into account offering 24-bit/96kHz audio via built in condenser mics. The camera also shoots in 1080p at 30 f/s. Let’s hope that a focus on audio quality will catch on to help reduce the YouTube noise pollution on fan shot clips.

This will set you back $299 when it is released later in the fall. Find out more details then you probably need to know at Samson’s website.

Fender has released their new Blacktop series which features very affordable versions (priced at $449) of the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazzmaster and Jaguar most with Seymour Duncan humbuckers.

Check out more photos below and Music Radar for all the specs.

Sennheiser has added 3 new additions to their 500 series of headphones that look spectacular and based on the specs should sound great too. The HD 598 pictured above features -

• Innovative “Eargonomic Acoustic Refinement” (E.A.R.) design channels that place audio signals directly into your ears, Highly constant, compressed cellulosefleece reduces total harmonic distortion
• Premium beige and high-gloss burl wood parts for a sophisticated finish
• Extremely comfortable velour ear pads and headband
• Special diaphragm geometry reduces intermodulation distortion
• Excellent connectivity, also with home Hifi equipment

More info at Sennheiser’s website.

(via Gizmodo)

Microsoft will be releasing a new X-box 360 wireless controller on Nov. 9th that has the new feature of a D-Pad that pops out as you twist it clockwise. Two possible uses of the new function according to Microsoft:

“Select the traditional plus for distinct cardinal direction movement in games like Halo: Reach to change weapons and perform complicated combinations and deadly finishing moves in Street Fighter games, or rotate the D-pad to the disc format for sweeping motions in games such as Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.”

The redesigned controller will only be available with the Play & Charge Kit. The bundle will set you back $64.99.

(via Joystiq)

Canon’s newest DSLR, the 60D is boasting some impressive new features, namely a vari-angle LCD screen which allow for shooting and different angles as well as taking HD video shooting to a new level for a DSLR. Another interesting feature is in-camera raw processing and creative filters. While the professional photograpers might be unimpressed, the creative filter addition are a nice bonus.

The filters included

• The Soft Focus effect filter helps dramatize an image and smooth over shiny reflections.
• The Grainy Black and White filter can give a different nostalgic perspective to any shot.
• Canon’s “Toy Camera” filter deliberately adds vignetting and color shift for a creative option when shooting a colorful scene.
• Users can also make a scene appear like a small-scale model, simulating the look from a tilt-shift lens, with Canon’s Miniature Effect filter, great when shooting any scene from a high vantage point.

Look for the camera to hit stores in the end of September, retailing at around $1099 or $1399 with an EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS zoom lens. Watch a video testing out the camera after the jump and find out more info on Gizmodo and CNet.

Nikon will soon be releasing the D3100 their newest DSLR that adds the functionality of full-time autofocus when taking 1080p HD video. It will retail at the fairly inexpensive $699.95. The camera is currently available for pre-order with a 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S DX VR Nikkor Zoom Lens.

FInd out all the specs here and check out more photos below.

PlayThisRiff.com, a site dedicated to showing you how to shred has posted some tutorial videos and tabs from Mike McKenzie from the Red Chord. Check out the video below and find the tabs and sheet music at this link. You can also find lessons from Clutch, 3 Inches of Blood, Kyuss, Every Time I Die, Fu Manchu and The Circle Jerks, Mike Watt, These Arms Are Snakes and a ton more on the site. Get ready to form some calluses on your fingers.

It’s about time! Sonic Youth’s guitar wizards Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo have been changing the way people approach playing a guitar for 20 + years and have officially made noise an art. Fender has given the two their own signature line of Jazzmasters, one of their most used guitars according to their extremely extensive gear guide.

You can find out all the techy stuff and a download of a new Sonic Youth track from The Eternal on the official site for the guitar.