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A little bit of history... in which I live my own
Behind The Music cliche

There was once a photo blog called jenyk.com that was deleted from existence by the internets gods when I failed to pay my server bills after I went away to clean the NYC out of my system in 2007. I took photos of bands, street scenes, sold some records, threw some awesome parties, and met the greatest people in the world through it. It was more a part of me than any of my jobs were and then I blew it all (up my nose). Totally losing 8 years of one's life's work was beyond devastating to say the least (even worse, someone stupidly didn't have a back-up, anywhere - this is your brain on drugs). But, though it's taken 4 years, I've since rallied and come to grips with what I'd done and decided to put it all back together. Over the past few months, I've scoured the internet caches and archives to piece together what I've been able to of the 1000+ shows I had photographed and archived. Those with no date are shows I've found photos for, but don't know exactly when they happened, yet. Eventually, I'll be restoring each and every one of these shows to this site as its own page and adding more shows to this list as I find them. For now, I've linked up all the new ones from 2011 and any that I've completed so far.
- Jasper Coolidge, March 2011

New York Press, August 12, 2003
Jasper Coolidge probably goes to more shows than you. He’s almost certainly taken more pictures than you. Armed with a Sony Cybershot DSC-F717, he sees about a dozen bands each week and puts their photos on his website, jenyk.com. He also writes about each show, often mentioning how wasted he was and how overwhelmed he is by each band’s potential. So far, he’s chronicled more than 200 shows and posted close to 10,000 pictures. Jasper likes bands on the rise. There are no pictures of the Strokes or White Stripes at jenyk.com. There are, instead, 10 sets of photos of the charming, moody loverboys of Elefant and four sets of the fierce, hot-as-fuck gals (and one guy) in the Twenty-Twos. Jasper lives in a blissful world of honest, unabashed fandom... "My philosophy has always been: I can’t play an instrument; I’m tone-deaf," Jasper told me. "Even though I played piano for nine years, I don’t recall any of it. So this is my way of contributing to the creative process, of not just being another fan in the crowd."

Bio from 2004
In addition to gaining recognition for his photography of bands, Jasper runs jenyk/dot/com which features up and coming musical acts in what has become a new type of media - describing, exposing, and promoting bands - all through an unbiased and independent filter. Averaging 25,000 visitors a month, jenyk.com has become what he describes as "an essential digital outpost for independent new music that deserves to be seen and heard." Among the bands he's been capturing since their early days and have since broken into the big time are Elefant, The Fiery Furnaces, Denali, Rainer Maria, and stellastarr*. In 2003 he launched VICIOUS @ Sin-é, a monthly showcase of the best new NYC buzz bands and truthflies.com, an online record store specializing in promoting unsigned artists.