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Black Book: 14 Products Our Editors Loved in July 2026

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The Anti-Algorithm Guide to Discovering New Music
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Streaming made music infinite. Which made discovery harder. Here’s how we’re finding our way back.

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The Original Gibson Les Paul Black Beauty is For Sale

There aren't enough words to describe the importance of this guitar. Without this Gibson Les Paul prototype, dubbed Black Beauty, none of the other Gibson Les Paul guitars would exist. Designed by Les Paul and produced by Gibson, this guitar is a bonafide piece of music history. Eric Clapton. Bob…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Retrowave Is a Combination of Drive, Back to the Future, and Tron

Florian Renner seems to have a thing for the '80s. And while that could end up being some horrible inspiration for a short animation, Renner composed something killer here. 'Retrowave' blends Back to the Future with Tron and throws in a dash of Drive for good measure. It's worth a couple minutes out of…

By Mike Newman
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Spin This Bottle Opener to Decide Who Picks Up the Tab

You know who waiters and waitresses hate? Groups of people who give them 8 different credit cards and a set of rules to split a tab. Stop being a person in that group. Simply give the You Pay Bottle Opener a spin, and one unlucky soul will get stuck with…

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Katz’s Deli Chocolate Egg Cream Candle

There are plenty of great choices for a last meal, but if we had to pick ours right now it would be pastrami and chocolate egg cream from Katz's. Yes, it's touristy. Yes, it's expensive. Yes, there's already an autobiography about the place. We get it. Adding scented candles (even…

By Cooper Fleishman
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The Looks of Inspiration LA

Every year workwear and vintage enthusiasts from the world over descend of Rin Tanaka's Inspiration LA. Fashion enthusiasts, collectors, motorcycle and hot rod devotees mix the new with the old. Racks of vintage bomber jackets, fedoras and Hawaiian shirts sit next to tirelessly reproduced WWII garments and stacks of the…

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