–EDIT: YOU CAN VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES – WE SUGGEST AT LEAST 297– Friends, SPIN Magazine’s website, SPIN.com is holding the Band of the Year competition! As you know, we were the band of the month for January (which led us … Read More
We just found out we made it into the band of the year tournament…voting begins soon. We’re also now just setting our plans for our Summer tour…more details as we know them. We hope to see you all soon!
We’re playing with Vic Thrill. He was featured on the NPR show This American Life here: http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/04/268.html(skip about 7 1/2 minutes in) It is actually quite a fascinating set of stories of the struggle to find one’s identity, so I … Read More
Hello Friends, For those of you in Boston, we’ve got an exciting show this week. We’re playing with none other than Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile. Not only is Vic Thrill an awesome and amazing performer, but sometime soon, … Read More
Jordan Tishler of Digital Bear Entertainment has kindly provided us with two surround-sound mixes of “Satellite.” They are available at: http://themotionsick.com/themotionsick/surround.html This weekend, we are doing our 1st, possibly annual, January Brooklyn tour. We’ve got two awesome shows. The first … Read More
Hello Sicklings, The Motion Sick’s _Her Brilliant Fifteen_ has been named in the best albums of 2006 by The Boston Metro – http://www.themotionsick.com/themotionsick/talk-metro-01-04-07.html This weekend, we are doing our 1st, possibly annual, January Brooklyn tour. We’ve got two awesome shows. … Read More
We made The Metro’s Best Boston albums of 2006 list: Best Albums of 2006
Hello friends, We’ve got some exciting things in store for The Motion Sick in 2007, so keep your e-mail reader open over the next few weeks! You may still have time to vote in the annual Noise (Boston’s rock periodical) … Read More
“Satellite” Selected For The Bimini International Festival Of Animation Films – [more info] [video] The Motion Sick has received nominations in several categories in the annual Noise (Boston’s rock periodical) poll. Once again, we’re asking for your help to get … Read More
Hello fellow Bipeds, The Motion Sick is the last band standing!!! ( ) Your votes and the judges scores are in and we were selected as the grand prize winner. As a result, we’ve been awarded a recording contract with … Read More
Hello friends, We just wanted to let you know that we’ll be playing at precisely 6 PM tomorrow at The Bodog Battle of the Bands at The Roxy. They have kept very strictly to the schedule in every show so … Read More
Hello friends, Some news, a few shows, and a secret treat at the bottom! — Today is the last day that you can order tickets (so that they can be mailed on time) to the Bodog Battle of the Bands … Read More
The whole thing is being filmed for a TV series on FUSE! BUY TICKETS HERE City Finalist Bands: The Motion Sick Graveyard BBQ Living Syndication The Press Cherry S/T Fear Nuttin’ Band Full Tilt Tons Of Chill Pope Joe Duke … Read More
Hello Friends, — Once again, the Bodog Battle of the Bands City Finals: it will be tough competition, but we do believe we have a shot at winning. If we do win the City Finals, we’re sent off to Los … Read More
Tickets to the City Finals for Bodog Battle of the Bands
Hello Friends, Exciting things going on in The Motion Sick land: —Bodog, which is apparently a company that makes its money via gambling enterprises, also has a record label and has decided to find “America’s best indie band.” So, they … Read More
Hello Friends, We need your help once again! The Motion Sick has been selected by WFNX as one of 20 semi-finalists in their “Last Band Standing” competition to find Boston’s best up-and-coming band. The next phase requires fan voting. You … Read More
We made it to the semi-finals in the WFNX last band standing contest! Now we need to get enough votes to make it to the finals. Please register and vote (up to once per day) for us! Thanks.
Hello Motioners, Things are astir here in camp The Motion Sick. First, we’d like to offer you a secret glimpse at our upcoming music video for “Satellite.” There may still be some buttons to push and some levers to pull … Read More
The fabulous Gem made us another video. Here’s a low-quality file: http://www.themotionsick.com/temp/themotionsick-satellite.mov It might see some small tweaks, but that’s the basic idea… The previous video she did for us is at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=KCML-81716k
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/NEMOBlog/?p=11&http://www.themotionsick.com A dispatch from Mark Sandman SquarePosted by Jed Gottleib at 3:48 pm Across the river in Cambridge, NEMO’s first night seems to be going the same as it was Allston. None of the Middle East’s venues are full and … Read More
Just a quick reminder and a little more information about some festival showcases coming up in NYC and Boston. 09/22/06M.E.A.N.Y. Fest: R&R (@ Rare)416 W. 14th St (9th Ave & Washington St.)New York, NYw/ EJ, Speed of Life, 39 GoodbyesShowcase … Read More
Hello friends, A few exciting things. The Motion Sick’s Michael Epstein is featured in the latest issue of The Northeastern University Alumni Magazine. It’s a great spread including a bunch of exclusive photos. You can read it here:http://www.numag.neu.edu/fall06/feature4.shtml A couple … Read More
Hello Mostly Harmless Friends, Several important bits of information (skip to the bottom if you are nowhere near NY or Boston): 08/25/06 WFNX – New England Product Night @ Bill’s Bar Lansdowne StreetBoston, MA w/ Munk, Corin Ashley Doors @ … Read More
Interview + 2 song performance: See the 8/8 show: Fearless Radio
Official The Motion Sick Home Page The Motion Sick Myspace Page The Motion Sick Myspace Group Facebook Group The Motion Sick Livejournal The Motion Sick Sonicbids EPK The Motion Sick on iTunes I think that more or less covers it…
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Here’s our half-page bit in SPIN.
This is it… Today 3/16TT the Bear’s PlaceCambridge, MA The Motion Sick – Her Brilliant Fifteen CD release We’ll be playing with: Three Nouns, The Halfnelsons, and Supermurray
Because of all your help and support when we were the Spin.com band of the day on 1/13 ), we’ve been included twice in this month’s issue (March 2006) of Spin Magazine. On P.10, we are included as part of … Read More
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I just got word that we are the January band of the month on Spin.com, which means they are going to give us a free half-page ad in the April issue of Spin Magazine. Thanks to everyone who helped spread … Read More
The Motion Sick is the band of the day on Spin Magazine’s website (Spin.com) today (I believe it will run until Monday morning). This is pretty exciting for us and we’d love for you to help us out. If you … Read More
I thought some of you might like to see our other Noise picture: http://themotionsick.com/noise/3.jpg
My sister is funny: CDs are here! I’ve mailed out about 600 so far…my fingers are dry, cracked, and bleeding from folding paper and affixing labels and stamps…http://themotionsick.com/
In case you don’t follow these Internet manias, these are great: alt: alt: http://web.archive.org/web/20160122132526/http://waxy.org/random/video/shining_redux.mov EDIT: (forgot this one)
Her Brilliant Fifteen 1. Satellite (clip) full length)2. The Day After (clip) (full length) 3. Pre-Existing Condition (clip)4. Grace Kelly (clip) (full length)5. What I Get (clip) 6. The Most Beautiful Dead Girl (clip) 7. Thundarr (clip) 8. Driving in … Read More
I’ve written a Windows application that lets the user listen to The Motion Sick album in its entirety for 3 days. It’s a beta version, but I think it works okay. http://www.themotionsick.com/themotionsick/program/TheMotionSick.zip if you’d like to try it.
Hello Travellers, What has… 1 political song, 1 pseudopolitical song, 1 song that is grossly misinterpreted, 1 song that sometimes people think is about zombies, 1 song about the US Postal Service, 1 song about the big top and the … Read More
I’ve started taking preorders on The Motion Sick record. You can find the info at The Motion Sick – Her Brilliant Fifteen Preorders I am also working on promotional strategies, so any ideas are welcome now. The record appears to … Read More
Trying really hard to think of an album title…crappy ideas: all that we have left now is screamingwon’t wash offThe Order Of The Modest Starher brilliant 15motionless and saferemember your mistakesmore unfulfilled dreams 36the day afterTechnicolor violencethe small and the … Read More
I had a really funny experience last night. I was playing a show at Evos in Lowell with Kate Klim ) and Leesa (http://www.counterfolk.com). Kate brought her whole band and they were setting up prior to my playing, so I … Read More
This is a duplicate post, but it’s up just because links have been posted elsewhere via twitter, etc. Ryan’s got a great blog covering music in Boston and beyond. He took some time with us a while back to discuss … Read More