The holidays are coming. Black Friday is coming. Shopping season is coming. And if you’ve got music lovers on your list, you’re going to need to start making some decisions and purchases so you can get the gifts wrapped and put under the tree (or in the mail) before the big day comes.

We want to help with that.

There’s a list here with some gift ideas that we hope will make all of this easier for you. Maybe the gift you didn’t know you needed to buy is right here in this post. Maybe the ideas we’ve listed will give you a lightbulb moment and you’ll come up with some other awesome idea (if you do, please tell us in a comment!). Or maybe, you’ll discover that you want to treat yourself, and that’s cool too!

Check out the 2022 Holiday Gift Guide for Music Lovers and enjoy the season.

Record Collection Accessories

If you’ve got a loved one with a record collection, your first thought might be to buy them vinyl. And that’s a good thought. But if you don’t know what they’ve got or what they need, that becomes a tricky thing to do well. Instead, how about some accessories to go with all those records?

There are a million options for Now Playing stands so your pal can showcase the record that’s playing or that they just want to show off. You can also pick them up some crates (make sure you try to match their style so they fit in the room), or some frames that can turn vinyl into art on the wall even.

Heck, you can get coasters that look like little records and come on a turntable holder. The options are out there, and they’re pretty cool.

Art

Remember back when you had posters of bands on your wall in high school and college? That was cool. Why not do something like that again? But more grown-up!

Add a frame to a cool poster that you love and you’re cooking. Find some old stickers or album art and display them neatly, and you’re getting classy. Hang up those vinyl covers in frames behind glass, look at you go!

Know a photographer that’s awesome? Buy some photo prints from them and display them proudly!

Find something cool that you’ve never seen before but looks perfect!

Help someone you love decorate their office or living room or hallway or whatever with awesome music art.

Local Music Store Gift Certificates

Shop local, baby!

If you’ve got a music store in town, see if you can get them to write you a gift certificate so your music lover can pick out that record you don’t know they need. Or that poster for their wall. Or the book they’ve been dying to add to their collection. Let them make the choice while you both support a local shop that surely would appreciate the business.

We’re all in this together.

Headphones

If you’re anything like me, you’ve got a lot of headphones. Headphones for work, headphones for music and podcasts, headphones for walks, headphones for bedtime. And if your friends and fam are like me, maybe they need a new pair!

You don’t have to break the bank to get functional and quality headphones that will get the job done. You can, but you don’t have to. Figure out what they’re looking to add to their collection or what needs replacing, and then you can start finding the right set. The options are out there.

And don’t sleep on the Bluetooth headband headphones that are super comfy for wearing to bed (or under a warm toque in the winter). Trust me!

Concert Tickets

We’re not out of the woods, but we’ve rounded the corner and concerts are back and live music lives. And that means concert tickets are back on the table as holiday gifts for the music lovers in your life.

We all know that the big tours are coming and tickets are out there (or not out there), but don’t forget about that small venue you love and the other shows that are available any night of the week. Those shows are great gifts. Those shows are great times. Those shows keep music going for the bands that dream of getting to bigger stages, and for acts that are breaking right now and have those big stages. in their sights.

Check the schedules, plan ahead, get paper tickets or print out the email version, put ’em in a card, do something cool and give the gift of live music this holiday season. Everyone wins with this one.

Happy Holidays, friends.