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the sonics and the hives!

jackieroman — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:29:12 +0000

I had been looking forward to seeing The Sonics for months. I guess the thing about aging musicians is they sometimes prefer to be remembered the way they were. I have to respect that, so in lieu of featuring our heroes for the LWMB this week, I featured a group who not only adore The Sonics, but have used their grinding hits of yesteryear as inspiration for spearheading the garage rock revival. The Hives. How awesome is it that they flew to NYC for one-night only, just to see this show. Lucky me, I got to dance, drink and take some photos of the uber tall and handsome swedes.

(click the photo to see the photo essay on LWMB)

Morrissey

jackieroman — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:24:19 +0000

October 22nd, 2007, NYC, Hammerstein Ballroom. Morrissey played to a sold out crowd of only the most dedicated fans, a few nights before he fired supporting act, Kristeen Young. It was cool to see the Mozzer do a bunch of Smiths songs. He started the set with “Stop Me”.

Click HERE to view the article on Spin.com, or,

Click HERE to see these images on my Digital Railroad Archive where they are available for purchase. ( :

CMJ 2007 Re-Cap

jackieroman — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:29:01 +0000

It really has taken me AGES to get this up. Sorry gang. During CMJ week I was shooting for CMJ, Spin.com as well as The Lime Wire Music Blog. You know I’m a busy girl. ( ;

10/16/07: Care Bears on Fire, Love Takes Flight, The Beasts of Eden, Oppenheimer and Rochester Road for Spin.com at Crash Mansion on the Bowery.

(click to see Spin.com)

10/17/07: Freshkills @ Europa, followed by The Pack and Cobra Starship for CMJ at Don Hill’s.

(click photo to see LimeWire Photo Essay)

Later that night I caught Gaskets and HIM @ the new BLENDER theater.

Click to see the blog on Gaskets’ website!

10/18/07: The Grey Race, StarDeath and White Dwarfs, Tiny Masters of Today, 1990′s, Pela and British Sea Power for Spin.com @ World’s Fair Showcase, at the Bowery Ballroom.

Click above to see photo essays on SDAWD and British Sea Power on the LWMB.

10/19/07: I was plenty exhausted at this point. Went to check this amazing garage act with a double rhythm section, The Dirtbombs at Southpaw.

Click above to see photo essay on The Dirtbombs for the LWMB.

10/20/07: My first stop of the evening was The Ponys and Spoon @ Roseland Ballroom.

Click photo check out the photo essay on The Ponys (LWMB)My second stop was Goes Cube @ Midway…

(LWMB photo essay link above on this one too)

Third stop was; The Black Tie Party at East River Bar

Fourth stop was Peter Bjorn and John (-John), Black Kids, Zambri, Morning State for Spin.com

(click above to see spin.com review)

Enjoy! Jackie

The JackieRoman.com Legacy

jackieroman — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:28:12 +0000

Hello friends! Just wanted to let you all know what’s going on here. I’ve switched formats for my photo blog. You will still be able to visit the old site, in all of it’s slow loading glory through the sidebar over there, just click on “JackieRoman.com LEGACY Rock n’ Roll photos 2006-2007″. As an experiment, I put one of those hit counter thingys on my opening page, turns out on average over 500 hits per month! Thank you 1,000x over. I’m honestly surprised (and horrified at the same time) that so many people have stumbled across my humble little photo blog. It made me realize I need to do a little cleaning house.

So when this baby is up and running you’ll be able to do things like;