Turn that home-schooled nephew/niece to the dark side of Rock N' Roll with this sweet Mini-Electric Guitar made by J. Reynolds:

• Double cutaway body style
• 29" long
• 21 frets
• RMS Mini-amplifier
• Picks
• Strap

Aside form the fact that this is a USB vacuum cleaner, the biggest selling points Meritline has for it is: an LED light, it's green, and comes with free standard shipping. Yea.

However, I see this as being a good tool for quick cleaning mic grills, funk out of keyboards, hard drive/pc cooling fans, and, if the cord is long enough, mixer surfaces without screwing up your EQ/Aux levels.

Deal ends June 28th.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - "Rumours is the thirteenth album by rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). It was the second album recorded with this lineup, following the successful self-titled Fleetwood Mac album. In December 1976, prior to the release of the album, Reprise released the single "Go Your Own Way". In 1978, it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. As of 2007 the album has sold more than 30 million copies[1], and is on the list of best-selling albums of all time." [more]

Sheryl Crow - Detours - "Crow's progressive lyrics hit like rubber-band pings fired by some joker in the back row at school. No one is likely to sing her verses at a march on Washington. But by addressing serious issues in the language of pop, they remind us that political speech and casual breeze-shooting can and do often intersect." - L.A. Times [Metacritic page]

Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) - "Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title implies, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of cool jazz." [more; Rudy Van Gelder]

Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely - "Broken Boy Soldiers" lacked tunes like these, tunes with considerable weight, and these songs turn Consolers of the Lonely into a lop-sided, bottom-loaded album that's better and richer than their debut. - All Music Guide [Metacritic page]

Sublime - Sublime - "Sublime is the third and final album released by punk-ska band Sublime. Originally intended to be titled Killin' It, the band and record label agreed to respectfully substitute an eponymous title due to lead singer Bradley Nowell's death prior the album's release. The album was a major commercial success, going five times platinum in 1999 and etching Sublime into a permanent place among the stars of mid-90s alternative rock." [more]


Bonus Album for $2.99 - Today only

the Decemberists - Picaresque - "Re-sleeve that album cover! Disregard those silly liner-note photographs! Never you mind the Decemberists' attempts at theatricality-- Picaresque is the band's least stagy, most serious, and most accomplished effort yet. It's also as good a follow-up to Her Majesty the Decemberists any devoted fan could hope for." - Pitchfork [complete review]

Note: the 5 for $5 album sale seems to last through the weekend...so, don't sweat it if your at work or have a big night planned...but as always, we at AGD recommend abusing your work's bandwidth whenever possible.

If you ever listened to Radiohead's song "Kid A" and wondered how they got that vocal loop to sound so tweaked, wonder no more. The Korg Kaoss Pad offers touch sensitivity to pitch and tweak any sound you put through it and so much more depending on what effects you program in in the x and y axis.

This is just about as cheap as you find it anywhere and Abe's of Maine is carrying it for you.

We've posted almost all the other mics from this great series, so here's the AKG Perception 400 for only $238.68. This is a well built, and affordable, multi-pattern large diaphragm mic that will have many applications in your mic cabinet.

• Dual diaphragm one-inch, large-diaphragm, true condenser capsule
• Switch-selectable cardioid, omnidirectional and figure-eight pickup patterns
• Switchable bass roll-off switch
• Switchable –10 dB pre-attenuation pad
• 145 dB max SPL capability
• Stainless steel grille
• Spider-type shock mount included
• Metal carrying case included
• Polar pattern: Cardioid, omnidirectional, figure-eight
• Frequency range: 20 to 20,000 Hz
• Signal/noise ratio (A-weighted): 78 dB (re 1 Pa)
• Supply voltage: 48 Volts + 4 V phantom power to DIN 45 596 / 268-15IEC

Carvin is offering their solid rack mountable H400 heaphone amp for an additional $12 off at $134.99.

If you have more than two people in your band or do Foley work, there really isn't any excuse not to have one of these in your studio. You may have already discovered how quickly your headphones loose power when the drummer plugged his cans into the 4th headphone splitter/adapter thingy you got at Radioshack. This thing is super loud and provides isolation for each member for click tracks, or isolate the bass or drums for the ryhthm section or just the guitars because they're just that awesome.

Save 18% at BSW when you buy a 2 Pack of these handy mountable boom stands. I've been staring at this ad for about 5 mins trying to think of a creative use for these. Sure, they're great for radio stations or mounting your favorite vocal mic on your desk to to de-clutter the floor around work station, but I'd go radical and mount these things on the ceiling for either a) room mics or b) permanent drum overheads.

That's right, it's not a doll, nor collectible "figurine" but a Jimmy Page ACTION figure. Your cubicle, car dash board, or microwave is not complete with out Jimmy watching over you slave away, cut off old ladies in the cross walk or "cook" dinner. Get the John Lennon and Freddie Mercury figures for $19.99 each and you can have John stand off to the side to make snide comments and Freddie march around singing We Will Rock You while Jimmy listens to old Blues 45's to "write" another blues rock masterpiece! OR you can set them around you while you play your songs like auditioning for American Idol where John is Simon, Jimmy is Randy, and Freddie is Paula...maybe you shouldn't bring these to work. You don't want to end up like this guy...

Price only good for today at Musician's Friend.

The Smith's lead singer released this compilation of Greatest Hits in Feb 2008 and is available for only $3.99 at Amazon Mp3.

The DMK57-52 Drum Mic Kit is a conveniently packaged selection of microphones and mounts, designed to offer a core package of microphones for recording and performing drummers at a great price. The Drum Mic Kit includes three SM57 microphones, one Beta 52A microphone, three A56D drum-mounting systems, and a lightweight, durable carrying case.

Price: $359.99 + free shipping
List Price: $861.90

You've finally invested in a high quality vocal microphone and your voice has never sounded better. Unfortunately, the keyboard player in your band decides he wants to use your mic during his featured rap. You cringe as he practically eats the microphone. You can barely watch as he encourages audience members to scream into the mic. Afterwards he returns your mic, still operational but considerably wetter and unhygienic. [read more from Shure]

"Often producing and playing all the instruments, Liam loops hook-happy guitars through syncopated rhythms ("Second Chance," "Energy Spent"), serves up classic-pop reproductions (the Beach Boys-esque "Lullaby"), and tosses in odds and ends both ridiculous (the honking "Better to Be") and sublime (the gently folk-rocking "Wise Man")." - Spin

If this sounds like your thing check out I'll Be Lightning - at $2.99 if you end up hating it you can always delete it.

The eMedia Bass Basics CD-ROM allows you to learn conveniently at home with over 120 comprehensive lessons covering everything from the basics through triads, fills, syncopation, and creating a bass line. Learn over 35 songs including hits from artists such as Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Steve Miller, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The price is listed $16.95 but when you add it to the cart it will come up as $6.99.

It's Fender month at Musician's Friend and to celebrate they are offering price drops and free gear. For example, purchase the Fender Deluxe Blackout Telecaster and receive the Fender PT100 Pedal Tuner (a $79.99 value) for free! View reviews of this guitar on ultimate-guitar.com

Price: $499.99 + free shipping
List Price: $714.27

A Woodwind & Brasswind Steal of the Week featured item, these midi cables are discounted to $1.99 from it's regular price of $12.99!

Recover Keys is a simple Windows application designed to safeguard your software activation keys in the event of a system or hard disk crash.

Losing your real keys can be an expensive, time consuming mistake, and losing activation keys isn’t any different. In many cases, it can mean purchasing entirely new versions of almost all of your software titles!

Rolling Stone claims Synchronicity to be "a work of dazzling surfaces and glacial shadows. The Police's fifth and finest album, is about things ending–the world in peril, the failure of personal relationships and marriage, the death of God." Amazon is offering this legendary album as it's deal of the day for $1.99.

A blowout deal on a quality set of cans! It's stupid to hear only a portion of your music. With their clear, well-balanced sound, the K301XTRA Headphones let you hear ALL the music. They make an excellent replacement for poor-quality 'phones and earbuds that often come with portable players and stereo gear. They let you hear accurate sound reproduction over the entire frequency range. The leatherette ear pads remove easily for cleaning and the self-adjusting leather headband offers comfort during lengthy listening sessions. Includes a mini to 1/4" adapter and 10' single-sided cable.

Sale Price: $39.99
List Price: $146.00

This is the best price we could find on the MX422. This four channel, microphone/line mixer has balanced XLR inputs and outputs. The unit is ideal for the broadcast and video markets. It has the same features of other ENG / portable mixers without the extremely high price.

The Roland Fantom-X6 and -X7, like the rest of the Fantom-X Series, are the world’s first Giga-Workstation keyboards, giving musicians nearly 1GB of wave memory when fully expanded and powerful 128-voice polyphony. American Musical Supply is offering a Factory Re-sealed X6 for $1695.95 and a Factory Re-sealed X7 for $1999.00, both with free shipping. View the rebate offer here.

Offer Ends June 30th.

Advanced Audio Recorder can record any sound passing through any line of your sound card. For example, you can record sound being played back by an external program, sound from a microphone, an external LP, cassette, CD/DVD player, AM/FM/Satellite radio, etc.

Advanced Audio Recorder is an ideal solution for audio recording, editing and mastering. The program contains everything you need to create great sounding recordings and audio CDs, including professional tools for recording, analysis and editing. The user interface was designed with speed, accuracy and ease of use in mind.

In what could be my greatest gaffe since deciding to pour the potentially rancid goat milk over my cereal just now, I've never heard of musicnotes.com.

They have over 70,000 downloadable music sheets. It's simple as ordering, downloading the music to your computer and printing.

The sale ends June 30th (it seems that's d-day for a lot of these sales) and you can get your 12% by entering the coupon code JUNETWELVE at checkout.

Music 123 has their semi-anual sale going on right now. Here are the offerings:

• Get 10% off all accessories when you enter the coupon code SEMI10 at checkout.
• Save extra cash when you purchase select items - up to $200 when you spend $1000. They have a list of the price ranges after the jump. Obviously, you want to stack up as close to lowest entry so you can get, for example, $1000 worth of stuff for $800.
• Additional savings on clearance items. Look for those marked "price drop" and "outlet" for best deals as some of the "instant savings' are comparable to other stores.