Greetings,

Thanks to all of you who entered our giveaways last month. Greg won the Gig-Fx Kilowah Pedal and Misti won a copy of IK Multimedia AmpliTube 3.

For July we have a different Gig-FX pedal to giveaway along with another copy of IK Multimedia's AmpliTube 3.

Giveaway Details below:

- Win a Gig-FX Chopper Guitar Effects Pedal: The Chopper is the most creative effect out there, an instant classic. Peter Frampton, Adam Jones of Tool, Jeff Wooton (Oasis, Gorillaz) Adrian Belew and other top players have this pedal on their pedal boards all the time to get some of the more dramatic effects they have used on their recent recordings.

- Win a Copy of IK Multimedia AmpliTube 3: A massive upgrade of the leading guitar and bass tone gear modeling software, AmpliTube 3 raises the industry standard of sound variety, realism and creative power. If your recording or playing “rig” is lacking in that rich, lush expressive analog warmth, then you need to check it out. With over 160 precisely modeled pieces of vintage and modern gear available in one package, AmpliTube 3 is the ultimate tone gear collection for the player/producer/engineer suffering from tone angst.

To register for these, please visit: http://www.onlinerock.com/partners/giveaways.shtml

EXCLUSIVE MP3 DOWNLOAD: It's been years since Manuok's Scott Mercado emerged on the music scene - Dave Eggers dubbed Manuok "the best new band name" at its inception - and he's spent most of the time since on the road. After his cover of "Untitled" won praise from Sigur Ros as the best cover they've heard, Mercado was spurred on to work not only on The Old Horse, but also on multiple independent film soundtracks. Every moment on The Old Horse was mixed, mastered and recorded by Mercado himself and the album is a profound reaction to the death of his grandfather. There are hours of secret recordings of his grandfather's stories and life lessons. Download "Untitled" at:
http://www.onlinerock.com/partners/freedownload.shtml

CD SPOTLIGHT: With healthy doses of vintage 4AD-style dream pop, strobing drum work and deeply mesmerizing duel-vocal melodies, School of Seven Bells delivers an appealingly retrofied look into the future with Disconnect from Desire. The band’s sophomore release is more monolithic and steady in its design than 2008’s long-gestating debut Apinisms. This leaves less room for surprises but allows the entire album to effectively operate as a gigantic crashing-wave crescendo, a crescendo that finds beautiful articulation when juxtaposed with the windswept lullaby coda of “The Wait.” Read the full album review at:
http://www.onlinerock.com/CDreview/review_school_of_seven_bells.shtml

FEATURED ARTIST PROFILE: Powered by thundering drums, two guitars awash in distortion, and rumbling bass, Tennis System are the loudest band in D.C. today, full of the same raw energy of their predecessors Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., My Bloody Valentine, and D.C.'s own (The Sounds of) Kaleidoscope. But there's more to this band than raging soundscapes. Listen hard, and through the noise, threads of melody emerge; these are picturesque pop songs, full of woe, optimism and yearning, even delivered at times in sweet falsetto. Tennis System doesn't sound like any band you know. It sounds like the band you should be listening to. You can download "Esoteric" from their latest release at:
http://www.onlinerock.com/profiles/tennis_system_profile.shtml

Stay Tuned!

Steve Beck
Founder
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