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Last month, Montblanc debuted the MTB 03, its first-ever in-ear headphones. The new addition to the luxury brand’s tech category is inspired by the signature aesthetics of the Meisterstück writing instrument and “represents the next generation of audio technology with seamless, everyday integration and stylish yet functional design,” according to the company.
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Released on July 1, the $395 headphones feature a 7mm beryllium driver offering “optimal sound quality and acoustics” with active noise cancellation, Bluetooth 5.2 (10-meter range), an ergonomic fit and sleek design. Montblanc launched its MB-01 over-ear headphones in 2020.
“Headphones have become such an essential part of our daily endeavors and digital routines, we wanted to create a high-performance solution that used premium materials to ensure a subtle yet elegant statement of quality, with a design that was uniquely Montblanc. Just as everyone’s handwriting is different, so is everyone’s hearing, requiring the level of customization that Montblanc Sound Signature can offer for an optimal experience,” Dr. Felix Obschonka, director of new technologies at Motblanc, said in a news release sent to Billboard.
The water-resistant headphones utilize the bespoke Montblanc Sound Signature crafted by Axel Grell, the sound guru known for designing Sennheiser headphones. MTB 03 headphones offer 5-6 hours of playback and up to 18 hours with three additional charges from the case.
The headphones are sold out at Montblanc.com but they’re available in select stores and at Nordstrom.
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Robbie Robertson, who died Wednesday (Aug. 9) at the age of 80, was a road warrior, songwriter and guitar hero who helped shape rock’s late-sixties golden age in The Band, provided or curated music for many of Martin Scorsese’s films and made several important solo albums. Over the years, he also emerged as one of rock’s most influential storytellers — myth-maker might be a better word, although he told true stories with dramatic resonance — first in Scorsese’s concert film The Last Waltz, later in the book Testimony: A Memoir and the Band documentary Once Were Brothers, and throughout his career as one of the most compelling raconteurs in the history of popular music.
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Robertson spent the first part of his career backing up Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan and then, with The Band, writing and playing songs rooted in American mythology. The stories were his, but the characters seemed so entrenched in the landscape that it sounded like they had been waiting for him to sing about them — Carmen and the Devil, Virgil Caine, the man with the stage fright. Many of these songs sketch out whole stories in small details — if you need to ask why Carmen and the Devil are walking side by side, you’re missing the point, but you can see it’s bad news from a mile away.
Over the course of his time in The Band, Robertson seemed to age into a kind of mythic character in his own right, and in The Last Waltz, made about The Band’s farewell to the touring life and the star-studded concert they played to commemorate it, he started to examine rock’s own myths. “The road has taken a lot of the great ones,” he says in the movie. “It’s a goddamn impossible way of life.” Along with his bandmates, Robertson turned barstool stories about highway hotels and dodgy dive bars into widescreen epics. “Sixteen years on the road is long enough,” he says elsewhere in the movie, all of 33 at the time. “Twenty years is unthinkable.”
More than any other work of the time, The Last Waltz gives the main characters of rock’s second chapter the chance to take a bow just as punk and disco took the stage. The concert, famously held at the Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day, 1976 — complete with a turkey dinner and an orchestra for formal dancing — featured not only Band collaborator Bob Dylan, but also a Beatle (Ringo Starr), a Rolling Stone (Ron Wood), a Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter (Joni Mitchell), a New Orleans pianist (Dr. John), a blues great (Muddy Waters) and a rock star who may have been celebrating the seventies in an eighties style (Neil Young, who according to unconfirmed legend had a visible particle of cocaine in his nose that had to be edited out). The film recounted the story of rock, right up to the point when it splintered into sub-genres.
Robertson understood this vision better than his bandmates, who seemed to have found his concept pretentious. (The fact that he had a magnetic onscreen charisma that they lacked probably didn’t help, either.) “We were in the moment — we were playing songs we had hardly played before with people from Joni Mitchell to Muddy Waters — and all we could think about was trying to rise to the occasion,” Robertson told me in a 2016 interview. Over the years, the movie became its own myth, to the point that there have been tribute concerts commemorating what was essentially meant to be its own kind of tribute concert. (The film resonated so much with me that in 1998 I bought the movie poster, which has followed me to every apartment or office I’ve had since — a reminder of the music I grew up listening to that by then had come to seem a bit old-fashioned.)
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Robertson’s first solo album, released in 1987, also seemed shrouded in myth — both figuratively in songs like “Somewhere Down that Crazy River” and literally in co-producer Daniel Lanois’ haunted, reverb-heavy production. At a time when mainstream rock was growing slicker, Robertson found a way to maintain some mystery, partly thanks to a list of guest musicians that included U2, Peter Gabriel, Maria McKee and two former members of The Band. He followed that with the New Orleans-themed Storyville (in 1991), projects that explored Native American music and what was then called electronica (Music for The Native Americans in 1994 and Contact from the Underworld of Redboy in 1998), and much later two more solo albums (How to Become Clairvoyant in 2011 and Sinematic in 2019).
In between those last two solo albums, Robertson published one of the best-ever music memoirs, Testimony, partly because he was there more than anyone else who remembers and he remembered more than anyone else who was there. Even this decision he cast in terms that loomed larger than life. “I just couldn’t carry around all of these stories anymore,” he told me in the 2016 interview. “There were too many and they got too heavy.” This sounds true enough, but it’s an unusually dramatic way to talk — you can practically picture the man weighed down by his memories, like a character out of one of the Scorsese movies for which he provided music.
In the book, Robertson tells his story with the same eye for detail and epic sweep he used in his songwriting. “It’s a cinematic piece of work and I had to structure the scenes so they fold into one another; as opposed to, then in February this happened, and in March that happened,” he said in 2016. When we spoke, he talked about writing a second book, devoted to his later career — and it’s hard not to wish he had lived to complete it.
Robertson had an incredible memory, and it says a lot about who he was that he even had a mythic — and true — explanation for it. In Testimony, he writes about how his birth father’s mother was a bootlegger who kept addresses and phone numbers in her head for safety. “My birth father,” he told me, “went on to become a gambler and won because he was a card counter.” You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried — and Robertson never needed to.
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The popular coffee chain is celebrating the end of Taylor Swift’s U.S. leg of her Eras tour by bumping a playlist of her music inside its U.S. company-operated stores, according to TMZ. As expected, the 122-track playlist is called “Starbucks Lovers,” in reference to the often misheard lyrics in Swift’s 1989 hit, “Blank Space.”
To add to the fun, Starbucks also assigned each of Swift’s album eras with one of their signature drinks, with the brand’s iced blonde latte giving Fearless while the Pink Drink radiates Lover energy and Reputation is a strong nitro cold brew, among others.
The show on Wednesday (Aug. 9) marks Swift’s last night at SoFi Stadium, where she’s played a total of six nights, concluding the first U.S. leg of the Eras Tour. Starting Aug. 24, she’ll take the trek global with a slew of international dates in Latin America, Asia, Australia and Europe before returning to the states in 2024 for a second North American leg.
The pop star was left enchanted during her second-to-last show on Tuesday, following her performance of “Champagne Problems,” when the crowd rewarded her with a nearly eight-minute standing ovation.
“I think it’s safe to say that I, like all people, will experience a certain amount of emotional downward spirals throughout the course of the rest of my life and in those moments, you can rest assured I’m gonna think about what you just did,” she told the crowd, getting slightly emotional. “And I’m gonna feel better. So thank you. That was insane. It was crazy.”
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What’s not to love about BLACKPINK? Jennie, Rosé, Lisa and Jisoo make up one of the hottest girl groups in pop. To celebrate the group’s seventh anniversary, we put together a list of some of the best merchandise that you can find at Amazon, Etsy and other major retailers.
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The next time you see BLACKPINK live, be sure to have a light stick handy. The light stick pictured above includes Bluetooth so you can jam away to BLACKPINK’s music. Find more options at Walmart and Etsy.
Carry your ID, lip gloss, cell phone and maybe a few other small items in this crossbody bag from Walmart available in three colors including pink, black and an iridescent shade. The bag has a zipper opening, interior zipper pocket and chunky silver hardware on the front. Click here for more BLACKPINK bags and backpacks.
“Diamonds on my wrist, so he call me ice cream.” It might not be diamonds, but this stainless steel bracelet will make a cute little gift for a BLINK who likes jewelry.
Unfortunately, the All Access Box is currently out of stock at Amazon, but this BLACKPINK gift set is an alternative option with some of the same items. The set is loaded with more than a dozen BLACKPINK stickers, buttons, pins, a keychain and phone finger ring stand.
Lisa, Jisoo, Rosé and Jennie get dolled up in the form of 3-inch figurines dressed in interchangeable outfits and removable accessories that you can mix and match.
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Whether you’re back-to-school shopping or giving your bedroom a summer refresh, the right pillows can make all the difference in getting a better night’s sleep. From aligning your spine and promoting better sleep posture to reducing tossing and turning, snoring, and even improving digestion, you’d be surprised just how important pillows are to your sleep routine.
Finding the perfect pillow can change the way you sleep, and if you feel like treating yourself to a luxury-style upgrade at an affordable price, Sobel Westex pillows are currently on sale.
After testing out the Sahara Nights Back and Stomach Sleeper and Side Sleeper pillows for a full month, my neck and back pain have already improved. On a typical night, I’ll use the Sahara Nights pillow with a couple Ralph Lauren logo pillows ($13.44) — and if I really want to raise the comfort stakes, I’ll throw in a Back and Stomach Sleeper Pillow.
As a frequent traveler, getting a good night’s sleep in a hotel can be challenging, and it usually has something to do with pillows. They’re either too large, too small or just plain uncomfortable, but finding the right pillow can be dream come true.
These hospitality-approved (and Billboard-approved) pillows are machine washable with 100% cotton casing for breathability, plus they won’t fall flat thanks to a “cutting edge design.”
Ready to go update your bedroom? Don’t forget the bedding! Click here to shop bed in a bag deals.
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