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THEY SAID IT a "If we don't change, we don’t grow. If - Page 5 we don t grow'we aren t real|Y living.” March 25, 2005 • •5*' . ■ .. •. ; ' ' gw • ■ ■" _ .. . * /■; . • , . •. .. r rriuiu artHyiML iu Pain in Life will perform in week three of the Jam Room Showcase next week. The band will perform with The Reverie, Entreat and Bolt following a radio panel with WUSC’s Ashley Solesbee. A SHOT AT THE BIG TIME %■ Panels offer bands advice on press kits, booking, radio play By JENNIFER FREEMAN THE MIX EDITOR Sponsored by The Free Times, Columbia Tunes, Deep Elm, Adancis Music Conference, Columbia Guitar Academy, the Jam Room and New Brookland Tavern, the Jam Room Showcase is intended as a way to bring the music industry to Columbia. This four-week event brings local and out-of-town industry reps to New Brookland Tavern to , glisten to Columbia bands and offer W their knowledge and advice to these up-and-coming musicians. The panels, which offer the chance for these representatives to get on stage and talk to the bands, will give advice on booking, press kits and promotion, and radio. The first night of the showcase, last Friday, was the only one without a panel before the show and brought in Deep Elm Records from Charlotte, N.C., and the Autumn Overcast, Samwise, the Letter Red and How to Vanish. Tonight’s show will start off with a panel from Kathy Gates at the Atlantis Music Conference and Otis Taylor from The State called, “Press kits: the good, the bad and the ugly.” This will be a chance for these bands, which might have experience with publicity and promotions, to learn what they should be doing, or maybe why they haven’t been getting response from their press kits. Next week, April 1, will be the Radio Promo panel with Ryan Wexler from Atlantic, Ashley Solesbee from WUSC and Camille Watkins from 96 WAVE FM. Week four, April 8, will be the Booking panel, with New Brookland booking agent Jon Dunagin; Marty Fort, who is the Art Bar booking agent and Dave Britt from Headliners. “The panels are geared more towards musicians, but the show is really for everybody,” Fort, one of the show’s organizers, said. Other local bands can still come to the panels and hear what the industry reps have to say. Bands not playing in the show will still have a chance to share their music with the representatives by putting their kit in a demo drop box at the front of the club. We really encourage people to come early to see the panel and have an opportunity that they wouldn’t otherwise have to network with these people,” Fort said. The event costs nothing for the bands. The show’s sponsors pay for the reps to come to Columbia. The showcase could be the important stepping-stone to a bigger career in music. Last year, Captain Easy was chosen to go to the invitation-only Atlantis Music Conference in Atlanta as a result of playing for people from Atlantis at the Jam Room Showcase. “Somebody will recognize the talent that we have and hopefully somebody will get signed from one of these things,” Fort said. Organized as a showcase, Fort said it is not a competition or a batde of the bands. “It’s a way for the bands to play for the industry people and get some feedback,” he said. “It’s not a competition, so nobody loses. I’d like to think that everybody wins because everybody gets feedback and can take that away and improve themselves.” Everyone is welcome to come to the Jam Room Showcase, Fort said. The event is not for only musicians. “We’ve got a rock-solid lineup tonight, and it’s really a show for anybody,” he said. “It was really cool last year. We had people from all different backgrounds, and there were no hard feelings. Everybody is there to have a good time.” Tonight’s show is week two of the Jam Room Showcase and will begin with the panel at 9:15 p.m. Kilcoy, Fastest Steed on Earth, Roni Zagoria and the Whole Lotta Man Band, and The Jones, formerly known as Smokey Jazzbah, will follow. Doors open at 9 p.m. and admission is $5 over 21, $7 under. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc. edit PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Roni Zagoria and the Whole Lotta Man Band will perform tonight at the Jam Room Showcase following a Press Kit & Promotion Panel. Schedule of Events TONIGHT WEEK TWO-Atlantis Music Conference & Press Kits & Promotion Panel Kathy Gates (Atlantis Music Conference), Otis Taylor (The , State), TBA 9 p.m. doors 9:15-9:45 Panel 10 - 10:30 p.m. Kilcoy 10:50 - 11:20 p.m. Fastest Steed on Earth 11:40 - 12:10 Roni Zagoria and the Whole Lotta Man Band 12:30 -1 p.m. The Jones FRIDAY, APRIL 1 WEEK THREE-Atlantis Music Conference & Radio Panel Ryan Wexler (Atlantis Music Conference) Ashley Solesbee (WUSC), TBA 9 p.m. doors 9:15-9:45 p.m. Panel 10 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. The Reverie 10:50 - 11:20 p.m. Entreat 11:40-12:10 p.m. Bolt 12:30-1 a.m. Pain in Life FRIDAY, APRIL8 WEEK FOUR-Atlantis Music Conference & Booking Panel Dave Britt (Headliners) Marty Fort (Art Bar) Jon Dunagin (New Brookland Tavern) 9 p.m. doors 9:15 - 9:45 p.m. Panel 10 - 10:30 p.m. Dogwood Saint 10:50-11:20 p.m. Madison Fair 11:40 - 12:10 p.m. Baumer 12:30 - 1 p.m. MiKenPike ^ BOOK REVIEW • 7 0 Women ’ offers mediocre advice “The 10 Women You’ll Be Before You’re 35" Alison James ★★ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ By JENNIFER FREEMAN THE MDC EDITOR Alison James’ new book, “The 10 Women You’ll Be Before You’re 35,” will introduce you to a variety of female figures. Some | ^ might be recognizable in yourself, ' but some are women that you will never want to meet, much less be. James’ descriptions of characters such as “The New Graduate,” “The Dollarless Diva,” “The Party Girl,” “The Chameleon,” “Ms. Independence” and finally, “The True You” are very stereotypical and tunnel-visioned. James’ book gives the impression that every female will go through these stages in an orderly fashion — fulfill the requirements and then neatly r:.1.1 move on to the next stage, abandoning the previous “you.” In reality, it is easy to see how every woman embodies these personalities at some time in her life, but it is not so neat and tidy. The typical college student can probably see three or four of the different personalities at work in her life right now. For example, “The Worker Bee inside you frantically tries to finish the story for The Gamecock on time and write a paper for English while your inner Dollarless Diva” wonders if a custodian left some toilet paper that you can steal from the bathroom in the Russell House. Each chapter begins with a dossier describing the nickname, appearance, favorite phrase, type of boyfriend and friend, and current life goal. These descriptions are pretty funny, and strike a note of familiarity in the earlier chapters. The New Graduate chapter is I geared toward college graduates, but recent high school grads will see themselves in the description of a girl in “cheap black pants, ponytail, white shirt, and denim jacket” listening to her “senior year mix CD”. Then the advice kicks in. The pearls of wisdom end up being more like cheap plastic beads you buy at the dollar store. The generic advice that every woman hears from her mom, her aunt, her teacher and the lady standing in line next to you at the grocery store is glammed up with teal font, pretty flower borders and interspersed with famous inspirational quotes (or supposedly inspirational). Some of them will make you raise an eyebrow at this “women empowering” self-help book. Henry Ford once said, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” James probably included this i quote in “The Worker Bee” chapter to be ironic and prove Mr. Ford wrong, but it still ends up perpetuating the mindset that women are still fighting to dispel. Most of the advice ends up being things every woman knows, has already heard or will learn through experience. Some of it is good advice, but take the Dollarless Diva’s advice and forgo spending $12.95 to read the same recommendations that Cosmo prints every month, without the sex advice. Cosmo fans will probably enjoy this book, but it won’t provide any new, life changing information. “10 Women” is a quick, entertaining (if you’re not a die hard feminist) read with humorous descriptions and (sometimes) clever wit, but the simple language and familiar advice will limit its lasting appeal. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc. edu I Women jYou’ll Be I Before t You’re y % % alfson fames Mtfior 1 Uwtf w Mto Htn,. "* 4u My Aim k I PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOC