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Camp Jam Rocktober Savings End Today!!

Happy Halloween!

Today is the last day that you can get in on the Rocktober special. So, grab whoever pays the bills at your house and tell them to get on it.

Don't forget that if you sign up by the end of today, you get $50 OFF the cost of the rock music camp + a $50 MUSIC STORE GIFT CARD (redeemable at participating local NAMM music retailer).

While supplies last, you will also receive a Camp Jam T-shirt and a copy of Camp Jam's "Book of Rock," an instruction book that includes rock styles and techniques that will help you out at camp and beyond.

Get Ready To Be Part of the Best Camp Jam Ever. SIGN UP TODAY.

New Release Tuesday: Saving The Day

There's actually quite a few recommendations that we can make for you today, even though the release of a new Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys album makes us cringe and feel like we're back in 1999. Avenged Sevenfold (known to the cool kids as A7X) and Saves The Day should make for good purchases, although probably very different so take a listen first before purchase. You can't go wrong with Duran Duran and then along with ex-Talking Head David Byrne are bringing back the 80's this week.

Avenged Sevenfold	Avenged Sevenfold
Backstreet Boys	Unbreakable
Ian Ball	Who Goes There
Chris Brown	Exclusive
David Byrne	The Knee Plays
Duran Duran	Red Carpet Massacre
The Eagles	Long Road Out of Eden
Mario	Go
Saves the Day	Under the Boards
Britney Spears	Blackout
Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden	Kate Tucker & The Sons of Sweden

Camp Jam Allstars "Money In A Card (On This Christmas Day)" Single and Music Video

The six members of the Camp Jam Allstars pulled off this summer what most bands twice their age would have a hard time doing. Never having played together as a group, these talented teens from towns across America got together for the first time in Atlanta this July and in a matter of days united as a band to learn, rehearse and record the song “Money In a Card.”

When “Money in a Card” is released this November exclusively online, a portion of the proceeds from each download sale will go to Little Kids Rock, a program that provides free instruments and instruction for public school students.

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New Release Tuesday: They're Not Dolls, They're Action Figures

Well, once again there's not a whole lot coming out today that we could recommend to you. Start with the new Coheed and Cambria; this one we know is good because we already listened to it. From there, and because we still play with our GI Joe sets in secret, we may have a quick listen to Cobra Starship. If you like System of a Down, then check out Serj Tankian, he is the lead singer and this is his solo side project. And if you like, drug-addled musicians who date supermodels then check out the Pete Doherty-fronted Babyshambles, we're sure Kate Moss will be buying it. Anyway, here are all of today's releases according to Metacritic.com:

Babyshambles	Shotter's Nation
Bo Bice	See the Light - exclusively at Wal-Mart
Black Dice	Load Blown
Blanche	Little Amber Bottles
Castanets	In the Vines
Cobra Starship	If the World Is Ending, We Are Throwing the Party
Coheed And Cambria	No World For Tomorrow
Paul Curreri	The Velvet Rut
Dave Gahan	Hourglass
Juanes	La Vida Es ... Un Ratico
Say Anything	In Defense of the Genre
Serj Tankian	Elect the Dead
Sole & the SkyRider Band	Sole & the SkyRider Band
The Thrills	Teenager
Carrie Underwood	Carnival Ride
U.S.S.A	The Spoils
Ween	La Cucaracha

Camp Jam To Launch Overnight Summer Camp - Summer 2008

Held from Sunday, June 29 to Saturday, July 5 on the campus of Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, IL, just north of Chicago, the overnight Camp Jam is open to all musicians and singers ages 11 to 17 and will feature everything you expect from a Camp Jam session plus an expanded curriculum with:

• Advance classes on songwriting and recording with platinum hit-maker Jim Peterik (Survivor, Cheap Trick, Doobie Brothers);
• Daytime and evening master classes with rock muisc legends;
• Music marketing classes including making your own music video;
• Unplugged concert performances at the end of the day;
• Rock themed movie nights;
• and lots, lots more!!!

Accredited by the American Camp Association, all camp participants will be hosted in two fully supervised campus dormitories, one for boys and one for girls, and the staff to camper ratio will be 1:6.

Total cost for the full week is $1200 and for a limited time you can register by paying $600 now and the remaining balance by February 29.

Space of course is limited so call today at 1-800-513-0930 to learn more and reserve a spot at the first ever Camp Jam overnight rock and roll summer camp.

Camp Jam Instructor Wins MTVU Music Video Contest

You may remember that last week we asked you to vote for Camp Jam instructor Donovan's band The Winter Sounds in a contest on MTVU. Well, we just got this in from him:

Thanks so much for voting, The Winter Sounds will be officially added to MTVU today!!!! They will be receiving a minimum of 20-25 spins a week and the station has a viewership of 7.5 million.

So, thanks for your help in getting Donovan's band onto regular rotation, and if you haven't seen the video yet, then watch it above. if you want to learn what it takes to be in a band from people like Donovan, then don't forget that we have a special deal going on for the month of October for the rock music camp.

Click the banner for the deal:

New Release Tuesday: We Love Long Album Names

There are a couple of albums out today that could warrant a listen and possibly even a purchase. Maybe start with the new Thrice album because it has a long name, which we really enjoy, then pick up Jimmy Eat World and finish off with a little Nicole Scherzinger....wait, scratch that last one, that's not who we thought it was. In place of that and out of our aforementioned love for long album names, we may give Soulsavers a listen, but we're not keen on the actual band name. If you want to make your own choices, here are today's releases according to Metacritic.com:

Baby Bash Jimmy Eat World R.E.M. Nicole Scherzinger The Octopus Project Soulsavers Thrice Underworld Dan Wilson Neil Young

Cyclone Chase The Light R.E.M. Live Her Name Is Nicole Hello, Avalanche It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land The Alchemy Index: Vols I & II - Fire & Water Oblivion With Bells Free Life Chrome Dreams II

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Weekly Kidcore Find: The Red Alert

When 14-year-old Hank and his 8-year-old sister saw The White Stripes play live in concert their lives were changed forever. Within 3 and a half weeks of that concert, Hank taught Christy to play 20 White Stripes songs and talked his father Hank Charles into recording them at his Valcour Sound studio; The Red Alert was born.

They got to be so good and popular in the local Tulsa scene that they opened for The Starlight Mints, have been featured in newspapers and on radio, met Meg and Jack from The White Stripes and received a Spot Award Rising Star nomination in 2004 which they won from the Tulsa World.  From there they released an all original album in December 2005, "Put Your Game Face On," won the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Battle of the Bands in February of 2006, which led to them being chosen National Battle of the Bands winners and picked up a bass player, their uncle Phillip.

In June of 2006 the band won the first annual "Debbie Campbell Young Musicians Award" from the Reaching Hands Foundation. They played the Warped Tour's stop in Dallas in July, and in August played three shows in St. Louis including a network TV Appearance on "Show Me St.Louis". On Oct. 14th, 2006, The Red Alert snagged the Spot Awards for "Artist of the Year", and Album of the Year". In February 2007, the bands music video was featured in the DVD-ROM in the book "Come Together: the Official John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Guide to Music and Video," and in March 2007 the band released a six song EP entitled "Extended Play."

Hank and Christy are now 18 and 12, respectively, and have recorded a music video for their single "The Only One" (see above). They definitely have retained a little of The White Stripes' sound, which was their original influence, but have definitely made it their own.