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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
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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.
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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
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' 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
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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
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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
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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.
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