While napping after a particularly hearty meal of grapes, Balloononians Admiral Sophia (Sophia Cacciola), Science Officer Michael (Michael J. Epstein), and Navigator Joe (Joe Kowan) drifted a bit too far off course in their balloon spaceship. Now they wander the … Read More
While we fight the space front against the evil dolphin conspiracy (dolphinspiracy 2012), things here on Earth are looking grimmer each day… Beginning in 2008, Iceland suffered from near complete economic collapse. In fact, the largest banking collapse (proportional to … Read More
Ryan Spaulding of the awesome music blog, Ryan’s Smashing Life has been working on a TV Show for some months now, and has just released a compilation of the many trailers for it. They really capture the vibrancy of the … Read More
Courtesy of local music scene satirist Richard Douche-ard. Used withouthis damn permission. Try and stop me! To free or not to free?I’ve been having a series of conversations on Facebook (1 – 2) about various components of the value of … Read More
Back in March, Darling Pet Munkee played a really fun show at Store 54. Store 54 is an awesome store filled with vinyl and vintage furnishings and clothes – definitely wanted to buy half the store! We played with The … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library was honored to have been invited to play at The Somerville Library to help celebrate their Somerville Reads program (here’s their recap) About: “Somerville Library celebrates its third “one city, one book” campaign, Somerville Reads … Read More
Quiet Desperation Act 3 is here! We’ve made some cameos in episodes of Quiet Desperation previously, but the latest one includes Sophia and I visiting Rob at the Brighton Wellness Center, trying to cheer him up by bringing him his favorite action … Read More
This revelation will be presented at Earthfront headquarters:The Somerville-based Arts at the ArmoryMay 5th, 2012 at 2000 (8 PM for you civilians). We will be sharing the presentations for the evening with Earth-supporter Eliza Rickman, who will be releasing a CD … Read More
Sophia is very honored and excited to have been nominated for ‘Best Female Vocalist‘ in the Boston Phoenix! Please vote for her!! and here she is in action: <p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://music.donotforsake.com/album/questions-are-a-burden-to-others”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Questions Are a Burden to Others by Do Not Forsake Me … Read More
photo by Theodore Cormey Our music video for “Episode 1: Arrival“, directed by Theodore Cormey just won “Best Regional Music Video” at the SENE Film Festival. SENE is based in Rhode Island – The SOUTHEAST NEW ENGLAND FILM, MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL(SENE) … Read More
I am thrilled to say that I am serving as a one-day substitute mustache/player during the run of Liars & Believers and Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys’ 28 Seeds. I spent the last two days at rehearsals … Read More
Notice what appears right now on Ryan Seacrest’s web site under his Dick Clark tribute! We bring you another entry in our continuing series on the Dolphinspiracy/Dolphinpocalypse of 2012. As the dolphins move closer and closer every day toward the … Read More
Saturday, April 21st, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is very excited to be playing in an actual library! Join us from 1-3 at The Somerville Library at 79 Highland Avenue, Somerville MA! Free RSVP here! It’s part of their … Read More
TODAY 1 PMhttps://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ interview and performance on NEVER HOME RADIO with Marissa;Back in the mid ’90s, I was taught of the joys of Electrical Engineering at a place called SUNY Binghamton (or as they want to insist it be called, … Read More
Apr 9, 2012 – Allston, MA (US) @ Brighton Music Hall (also w/Oranjuly) -Facebook Apr 10, 2012 – Burlington, VT (US) @ Club Metronome – Facebook Apr 11, 2012 – Northampton, MA (US) @ Iron Horse – Facebook Apr 12, … Read More
https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/‘s TEDxSomerville involvement was presented by C. Todd Lombardo, executive director of TEDxSomerville, at the TEDxSummit 2012 in the Innovations session. His “Custom Songs for each Speaker” presentation will be heard by an international audience in Doha, Qatar and will … Read More
Michael J. Epstein (despite his mustache’s beef with Madame Psychosis – read more about that here) and Sophia Cacciola make quick cameos in the new video from Madame Psychosis along with other Boston rock luminaries: Jessica Sun Lee, Al Polk, … Read More
April’s Wiretap Wednesday is here!! This page ( http://bit.ly/wiretapwed ) is the location of the videos for all performing acts. Nick Zaino was our feature performer this month! Arts at the Armory191 Highland Ave.Somerville, MA All Ages! Free! (Logistical Details) Also, connect with us … Read More
It has been a while since we’ve posted an entry in the Strange Vids Featuring TMS column. It’s not actually that there aren’t more videos to post, it’s just that other things have been higher priority…that is until this amazingly … Read More
Recently, Space Balloons were summoned to Earth to play the Balloon-Day party of an Earthling child’s celebration of his third rotation around the Earth-Sun. It was such a fabulous time that we are now available to play Balloon-day (or as … Read More
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We bring you another entry in our continuing series on the Dolphinspiracy/Dolphinpocalypse of 2012. As the dolphins move closer and closer every day toward the destruction of humanity, we continue our fight on the space front. I can now reveal the … Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that Darling Pet Munkee‘s “X-Ray Specs” music video will be screening at the 2012 Boston Underground Film Festival! The complete schedule is available at: http://bostonunderground.org/2012-schedule/ (or as a PDF). The video was shot at Radio, mostly … Read More
A true story from The Motion Sick‘s 2006 tour…ah, the good old days…of me being hit in the face with stuff. From this book: http://amzn.to/GOeYzQ – Also previous appeared here: http://www.tourdeath.com/post/15554275385/tour-tales-michael-j-epstein-of-neutral-uke-hotel
As we mentioned last month Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling are recording/releasing 12 covers in 2012 on a monthly-ish basis! Last month, to kick things off, we released our cover of “Cover Me” by Bruce Springsteen. This time … Read More
We previewed our performance on The Steve Katsos Show (Facebook) recently! We had no idea that there would be such quick turnaround, but here, for your eyeballs and earballs is our television debut of “Amylee” on The Steve Katsos Show! We … Read More
One of the things I am working on for 2012 is reissuing all of the projects I participated in way back in my college days, prior to even The Motion Sick or any of the other bands covered here. Several … Read More
UPDATE – VIDEO OF PERFORMANCE AT: http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2012/03/michael-j-epstein-memorial-library_22.html The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is excited to present a two-song performance this Tuesday evening (3/20) for a taping of The Steve Katsos Show (Facebook). Steve Katsos, the “Pauper of Late Night,” (see … Read More
The first part of our three-song “Faith in Free” trilogy was released today by MAGNET!!! (Free download there!) This was recorded for Berklee PULSE‘s BANDED project and for live dance performance with BalletRox!!! The amazing Sarah RabDAU supplies some fine additional … Read More
As it turns out this year, it was too expensive for us to actually make it down to Austin, so instead, we have been creating more than we ever could have created if we had gone… For The Michael J. … Read More
Space Balloons‘ debut album arrives officially in May, but interstellar technology sometimes allows things from the future to appear before they even exist! One of the things that helped inspire the release of our album was an event for which … Read More
While rock bands worldwide travel to Austin for music festival South by Southwest, Special Friends (Facebook) make the journey to the real SXSW – Stamp by Stampwest to find rare Star Wars stamps. Little do they realize, their plans have been foiled … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library took a trip back to high school to revisit the days of clique segregation at Radio in Somerville. Hall monitors were giving out detention, a prom king and queen were crowned, and the gym … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library was very excited to get an opportunity to play the opening night of the Davis Square Theatre (Facebook) in Somerville. I love the space (formerly Jimmy Tingle’s Theater) and have been craving a nice sit-down … Read More
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School: Clique Wars! Nerds vs. Jocks vs. Freaks! Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins, The Zambonis, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, and J. Krafty take over Radio Bar in Somerville on Thursday (3/8) to finally … Read More
Neutral Uke Hotel A lot has happened since Neutral Uke Hotel first took up their ukes to pay tribute to the beloved In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. The ukulele is back in the limelight, with Eddie Vedder’s Ukulele Songs … Read More
The Beginning The February West Coast Neutral Uke Hotel / Golden Bloom / The Michael J. Epstein MiXXXtape tour was amazing! Originally, I was slotted to open all the shows solo, but I managed to convince the amazingly talented players … Read More
Photo by Jenee Halstead http://instagr.am/p/HwV7Xmlp0u/ https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ had the pleasure of being the house band for TEDxSomerville yesterday. In honor of the event, we wrote 25 songs about the talks presented and performed them in blocks during the breaks between sessions. As … Read More
Read more about our TEDx experience… Tanya Palit’s Top Ten Reasons Why MJEML Being the House Band at TEDxSomerville Rocked! 1. When a band writes highly personalized theme songs about people, it makes them seem like superheroes who exist in … Read More
Go “like” the On The Town with Mikey Dee facebook page! OTTwMD plays local Boston music and is on every Wednesday from 9pm-Midnight and almost always features a live band around 10:30 – it’s on 91.5 WMFO – http://wmfo.org. Send … Read More
Untitled Document WHY WHAT THESE VEGANS EAT? I’m tired of people asking me what Mike and I eat. Would an omnivore have an easy time answering this question? Mostly, we eat vegetables/grains/legumes/fruit. I cook everything I can in my trusty … Read More
We woke up to a crazy sound today! We had thought that maybe a car drove into our front porch area. Instead, a tree had been partially knocked over by the wind. It hit our porch overhang causing minor damage, … Read More
Sleepover Shows (one of our favorite video sessions blogs) found us in our natural habitat, hanging out with Rover, and caught a couple of acoustic numbers from us, including the worldwide debut of our new song “Episode 15: The Girl Who … Read More
We just wanted to pass along a huge congratulations to our friends at Sleepover Shows for hitting their 100th show today with the awesome Deer Tick! In addition to this fine 100th session, they’ve put out a ton of awesome sets … Read More
February 1 is the very first installment on Wiretap Wednesday!! This page ( http://bit.ly/wiretapwed ) will be the location of the livestream and time listings for performing acts. The amazing J-Krafty is our feature performer this month! Arts at the Armory191 Highland Ave.Somerville, … Read More
For 2012, we’ve decided to release one cover song a month. This is an exciting project as it will enable us to collaborate with lots of friends (expect A LOT of duets!) and will keep us moving while Sophia finishes … Read More
ah Monday night Rock ‘n’ Roll! We’re playing a free show at Zuzu (Cambridge, MA) – starts at 10PM, and is a pretty awesome night of music: Mon 1/30/12 – Zuzu! 21+ 10pm Free!Night of the Living DeadHead:Jeremy Dubs Presents: Speak! … Read More
The TIME article, “Want to Be a Rock Star? You’ll Need $100,000” has been making the rounds recently and repeatedly infuriating me. Why? Well, it’s both horrific in its accuracy and its inaccuracy. The problem is, these stupid kids in … Read More
The full film is out. Because we don’t like to behave sensibly, we at The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library decided to shoot a short film (about 24 minutes) over a single weekend. We’ll be premiering the final product to the … Read More
A huge thanks friends for making our Darling Pet Munkee CD Release show a huge success!!! A tremendous thanks to all the bands, all in attendance, and to our burlesque accompaniment organized by Porcelain Dalya, featuring Strawberry-Cream Pie, Margaret, Tara Emory, and … Read More