Calling all would-be rockers! It’s time to dust off those stashed pictures of you and your Genesis cover band buddies rocking out beside the Volvo in your parents’ garage in preparation for the year-end high school battle of the bands (which you inevitably lost to the other, better Genesis cover band.) Your time to shine is not yet over!

Perfect Candidate: Whatever, we were a concept band On Tuesday we got excited about Camp Camp, an encapsulation of the quintessential wet hot American summer consisting of photos, essays, and volunteered blog submissions. The book came out yesterday as the second book in a series dedicated to awkward, retro, prepubescent times. You can only imagine how charged we got when we heard that the series is about to become a trilogy. And this time, it’s all about the music.

Introducing For Those Who Tried To Rock, a new blogging project that will culminate in a veritable mix tape of memories in book form. This “Where Are They Now? for those who never were, then” is dedicated to “every band to have been formed by teens with that perfect mixture of big dreams and questionable talent in suburban garages, high school music rooms, and college dorms across America.”

Does this sound like you? Find out more and submit your own memorabilia at the Tried to Rock website.

We all know that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we just saw the cover of Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies, and we have already decided that it is awesome.Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies

Camp Camp is the new brainchild of Roger Bennett and Jules Shell, who in 2005 brought us the extremely entertaining Bar Mitzvah Disco, a compilation of the most outrageously awkward photographs and hilarious memories from the bar mitzvahs of 1960-1980. Camp Camp is intended to be the sequel to the Bar Mitzvah book and features a similar genre of deliciously embarrassing snapshots, this time from inside the sleep away camp. As usual, Bennett and Shell have provided their readers with accompanying essays from a star-studded list of writers including A.J. Jacobs, David Wain, Rachel Sklar, and Sloane Crosley. The subjects are young adults now – they’ve had their bar mitzvahs and have stashed away their powder blue suits for the summer, trading them in for velour track shorts and knee-high socks. Everyone’s a little bit older, a little bit smarter, and a little bit sexier…or at least, they’re trying to act like it.

The book officially comes out tomorrow, but if you can’t wait till then, you can check out a juicy excerpt over at Radar entitled “20 Acts of Violence That Say ‘I Love You’” in which former campers describe their favorite ways to lovingly torture their fellow bunkmates. You can also play along and submit your own memories, or just read and reminisce at the Camp Camp blog.