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University Symphony takes stage The 100+-piece USC Symphony will open its fall season tonight at the Roger Center. Tickets for the series are available at the Carolina Coliseum box office. $7 students, $12 USC faculty and staff/senior citizensr$15 adults. At left is pianist Jerome Lowenthal. Jump, Little Children in store concert Manifest Discs & Tapes will sponsor a free performance and signing of J, LC’s new CD, Vertigo. 5:30 p.m. Manifest, Boozer Shopping Center. Vertigo art work, photo by SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Wednesday October 3 LAST LECTURE SERIES: Department of Eco nomics professor Dr. Robert Carlsson will give a .lecture as if it were the last of his ca reer. Co-sponsored by the Carolina Scholars Association and Carolina Productions, the series gives Students a chance to' interact with professors outside of the classroom. 7 p.m. Gressette Room, Harper College. LOCAL NEWS: Nickelodeon and SCETV will sponsor a free preview of Local News, a film documenting television news reporting, followed by a panel discussion with some of Columbia’s television journalists. 7:30 p.m. Nickelodeon Theatre, 937 Main St. MUSLIM STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: The Muslim Students Association will host "The True, Peaceful Faces of Islam.” 7 p.m. RH 322 NON-STOP HIP-HOP LIVE: DJ Shekeese and D J Tony Nu will host this all-night party fea turing a-freestyle contest with a $50 prize and a special performance by live hip-hop/funk band Infectious Organisms, with special guest One Drop. The Elbow Room, 812 Hard en St. BEST BUDDIES INTEREST MEETING: Best Buddies helps create friendships between USC students and people with mental retar dation in the Columbia community. 7:30 p.m. RH 304. HAYSEED DIXIE: This bluegrass AC/DC tribute band will play as part of the WUSC/New Brookland “Under the Covers’’ Wednesday series. Interstellar Groove 4 will open. New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St. Show begins at 10 p.m. $5. Thursday October 4 GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR: The Graduate Student Association has invited students in terested in applying to graduate school to the Graduate School Fair. Representatives from graduate schools in the Southeast and North east will give information about their pro grams. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. RH ballrooms B and C. Free. FIVE POINTS AFTER 5: Locally and critically acclaimed singer/songwriter Danielle Howie will play with her band The Tantrums at Five Points after 5 in front of the fountain. Free. JUMP, LITTLE CHILDREN CD RELEASE PARTY: Local favorite Jump, Little Children will cel ebrate the release of its album Vertigo, with special guest Howie Day All ages. Doors open at 8 p.m. Advance tickets are available at etix.com. The Elbow Room, 812 Harden St. BATTLE OF THE BANDS - WEEK 9: Colum bia’s own Captain Easy will perform. Bal lentine Deli will provide free food. All ages. Doors open at 8 p.m. New Brookland Tavern, 122 State St. 2001 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR: The State Fair is here again. Performances will include Toby Keith on Oct.4 at 7:30 p.m., Michael W. Smith on Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m., Brian McKnight on Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m., Lee Ann Womack on Oct. 7 at 4:30 p.m., Lou Rawls on Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m., Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers on Oct. 12 at 7:30 p.m.. Plus One with Rachael Lampa on Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. and the Beach Boys on Oct. 14 at 3:30 p.m. One-price ride tickets are $15 at the gate. Regular ad mission is $5 at the gate. Gates open at 10 a.m. (except Oct. 4,12 noon; Saturdays, 9 a.m.; Sun days, 12 noon). Hayseed AC/DC cover band to be interviewed on WUSCshow CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 play their instruments really well, and the kids will love the show.” Imagine a fiddle player turn ing out the guitar solos in “You Shook Me All Night Long.” Sound like a spectacle that must be seen to be believed? DJ John, from the WUSC show “Under the Covers,” is betting on it. “On ‘Under the Cov ers,’ we try to expose our listeners to new bands through songs they’ve heard before. Hayseed Dixie as an AC/DC tribute band is a great ex ample. Since we’ve started playing them, they’ve become one of our most requested artists.” “Un der the Covers” will interview the band today during the show, which airs every Wednesday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. “They’ll be playing acoustic guitar over the air," DJ John said. There’s no word yet whether the mandolin play er will hop around the stage a la Angus Young. . The show will start at 10 p.m. today at the New Brookland Tavern, with Interstellar Groove 4 opening. For more information about Hayseed • Dixie, go to its Web site, www.dualtone.com/hay seed. For more information about the venue, call 7914413 or go to www.elbowroommusichall.com. For more information on the opening band, go to www.amosbrittproject.com. ■ — mi m r ..... _:: Infectious Organisms, the ‘voice of tomorrow’ BY JUSTIN BAJAN THE GAMECOCK Live instrumental music is slowly emerging as a respectable subgenre of hip-hop. With the rise of such groups as The Breakestra, Poets of Rhythm, Black Eyed Peas and, most notably, The Roots, dis cerning the differences among each new group is a formidable task. Fortunately, Infectious Or ganisms has transcended this ex clusive categorization with its rich sonic textures and palpable lyrics. Infectious Organisms has had a widely successful career, per forming with such hip-hop sta ples as Run-Dmc, Outkast and underground perennials Hiero glyphics. Its success can be at tributed to a sound that is “con stantly changing and evolving,” according to drummer Will Blair. Blair called the band’s music “genreless.” The band’s roots are in Rich mond. Va., where its members attended Virginia Common wealth University. While at VCU, Infectious Organisms started to take shape as two col lege bands joined forces to cre ate the current super-group. Blair explained that the forma tion was completed when “we made a little basement record ing” and gave it to a friend of a friend of the other college group. “Our first show was a week af ter that.” Ever since its creation in 1996, the band has been through many line-up changes. But the current lineup, Max imus Martin and Jean Baptiste on vocals, Brooke Blair on gui tar, Dave Sunderland on bass, Mike Mathews on keys, along with Will Blair on drums, has stayed the same for more than three years now. In those three years, the band has built a loyal following in South Carolina, playing at the Elbow Room several times. Brook Blair said, each time the band has been in Columbia, its members “all noticed that peo ple were out to have a good time,” a refreshing contrast to harder-to-please Northern au diences. Blair said the South Carolina audience, mainly com posed of college students, “guar antees it will be like that every time.” The band’s latest album, the independently released Human Experience, is a triumphant col lection of sounds, themes and arrangements, a beauty rarely achieved in hip-hop. The lyrics are delivered with an impres sive sense of rhythm, rival ♦ ORGANISMS, SEE PAGE 11 Infectious Organisms play the Elbow Room tonight with One Drop, photo by specialto the gamecock -... .1 The majority of all USC students have ■ 5 or fewer drinks per week. 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