Walter Sickert’s delicious flyer for the show! The EP release show is coming up next Friday May 13th at The Middle East Downstairs, Cambridge MA. We’re playing with some of our favoritest bands: the power-steam-crunkers: Walter Sickert & The Army … Read More
Andrew reveals that he his Taco Bell baby may be possessed by an evil force. Tanya asks the hard-hitting questions…
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library joins Brown Bird (recently back from a tour with Devil Makes Three) at Porter Belly’s in Brighton (38 Washington Street Brighton, MA 02135 tel. 617-254-3300)to perform an intimate live set (will we all even fit in … Read More
What is Kimchi? Holly Collins and Tanya Palit know.
Josh talks French with Tanya…
Glenn DiBenedetto (Killer Suit Creative) recently took a spin (via the Globe Bar) to the English countryside with Sophia. They talked about the Rumble, The Prisoner, our upcoming video, and Sophia shared her (no longer)secret recipe for the Do Not … Read More
Tanya asks Kelly how she got into Mike’s pants…
Shawn is put on the spot by Tanya and must name all of the tour participants…
Participating in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble this year was an amazing experience – so much hot music, new friends, and great times. Here’s a round up of photos/video/and press regarding Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’s appearance in … Read More
Tanya quizzes Sophia Cacciola…
Tanya gets down to the truth with Susannah P!
Another hard-hitting look at tour…this time, Tanya Palit sits down with Rachel Leah Blumenthal.
More on the MJEML/Golden Bloom/Neutral Uke Hotel tour coming soon, but let’s get started with some of the hard hitting on-the-ground journalistic investigation of Tanya Palit. We’ll have a series of interviews coming up. Today, we start with Tanya Palit.
This morning, I am speaking on the panel, Local Media and Culture: What Does It All Mean for the Music Scene? (http://conference.freepress.net/session/505/local-media-and-culture-what-does-it-all-mean-music-scene) I am specifically on the panel to discuss how local media can be used to build up a … Read More
Space Balloons is the children’s songs project from Michael & Sophia (see previous bit about it). It was created as part of the pilot for a new show by Rob Potylo called Worried All the Time. They just released a teaser … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling has been very busy in the studio these past few months working on 7 new songs (previous post with video of me singing in the studio) – we’re releasing these at a very … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is excited to announce that we’ll be participating in the 2011 Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble! If you don’t already know all about The Rumble it is a Boston institution – read the wikipedia … Read More
Last October, http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2010/10/most-epic-video-shoot-of-all-time-with.html I gave an update on the bulk of the shooting for our epic music video that recreates the opening sequence of The Prisoner. We’ve had several days of shooting since then. We spent two days shooting the resigned cabinet … Read More
Special Friends is coming! In addition to our musicalious opening – 2 teaser clips have popped up on the interwebs this week. Find out what it means…to be special: and, Goddamn Glenn:
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling was back in The Moontower (in Q Division) studio with Mike Quinn this week recording bass and vocals for our forthcoming EP, Questions Are a Burden to Others. We recorded drums ALL THE WAY back in … Read More
Space Balloons is yet another project from Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola. This one, though, is for the kids. We’re working on a collection of children’s songs, primarily on ukulele. Space Balloons was created as part of a TV … Read More
Buy our CD for $10 + $2 shipping anywhere in the U.S. and Canada and $10 + $5 shipping worldwide. We will additionally offer a package deal of 5 copies (they make great gifts!) for the discounted price of $40 … Read More
All right kids, you may remember the last time we posted an interesting fetish video from Youtube featuring the music of The Motion Sick as the soundtrack for a fully clothed guy soaking himself in the bathtub….well, now we’ve got … Read More
A huge, huge thanks from all of the wings of the library for making our sold out CD release a smashing success!!! We really appreciate your kind and generous outpouring of support and we had more fun than we ever … Read More
The MJEML is going on tour with our good pals Golden Bloom and Neutral Uke Hotel in April. Tour Dates: Wed. 4/20 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA (tickets selling fast!) – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182411545112392 Thurs. 4/21 – Cameo Art-Gallery – Brooklyn, NY – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115042465240542 Fri. 4/22 – The Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH … Read More
Live photos and video archives
I was really excited to witness a new crop of female rock stars last night at the Ladies Rock Camp showcase. On Friday, around 30 women with little-to-no experience playing their instrument gathered together, formed bands, went through intensive music … Read More
As we approach our CD release show, we’ve got a lot of exciting stuff coming through the pipeline this week. This particular set of videos, from our Sleepover Shows session, is really exciting to us. We had a really awesome … Read More
Photos by Michael Basu – http://michaelbasu.com First, I really want to thank everyone for their support. It has been a really rough couple of days. I really know now how many supportive and caring people there are in my life … Read More
Right before I left for Switzerland, Sophia and I discussed the mustache situation in the best way we know possible, we communicated by song. It was mostly her idea and she started writing this number about wanting a mustache back … Read More
Well, I’m here in Switzerland and they do a lot of fascinating scientific work in this country. I feel like I’m in a spy movie. I’ve been sworn to secrecy about my precise location and who I am being treated … Read More
Here is poster #7 in The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library poster series.
In response to the loss of Mustachey… I am really sad to report that Sophia won’t go with me to the Winter Formal. She is now looking for a new mustached man to take. I was really excited about it … Read More
Photos by Michael Basu – http://michaelbasu.com There comes a time in every mustache’s life when we must wave goodbye to follicular joy and say hello to the bare, unprotected skin of an upper lip. Although I never wanted to say … Read More
Back in the 90s, I used to do a lot of sound collage work under the name M-sli©k da ninjA. The project started as a radio show on WHRW inspired by Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza and Over the Edge (and … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Space Balloons Special Friends Neutral Uke Hotel The Motion Sick Skippy, The Mummified Squirrel of Elm St. in Somerville The Positronic Rays Michael J. Epstein’s Mustache M-sli©k … Read More
What the heck can I say about this? Here are a whole bunch of dancing cartoon characters – Santa, Fry from Futurama, a banana, and others – all grooving to The Motion Sick‘s “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)” for your amusement.
Saturday, Feb. 12th at Great Scott is the highly anticipated CD Release for Naked On Roller Skates‘ debut, I lost my heart in the battle. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is opening up this show, which includes the arena-worthy … Read More
I am quite excited to announce that I will be speaking at The National Conference for Media Reform as part of a session on the connection between a healthy local media system and a vibrant local music community called “Local … Read More
Special Friends: Five friends. One show. Zero chance. “What Does It Mean to Be Special (Special Friends Theme)” My Friends are special. What does it mean to be special?Let’s look and see…
<p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://music.themotionsick.com/track/30-lives”&amp;gt;30 Lives by The Motion Sick&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p> Very excited to say that The Motion Sick‘s song “30 Lives” appears in the film The Flying Scissors, a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary examining players in a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament.  The song appears in a … Read More
We’ve been going through some artifacts from our youth for a top-secret The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library surprise and I found a letter from my French pen-pal. I must have asked her if they have to wear gas-masks in … Read More
Here is Poster #6 in the MJEML Poster Series!
I found this in an old journal of songs I wrote circa 2001-2004. I guess it needed a diary lock. Michael is obsessed with monkeys, just consult the tribute page to his monkey mug for evidence. I think this proves that … Read More
We’ve posted covers of “30 Lives” and “Aquaman’s Lament” before (including Golden Bloom‘s cover on our split 7″ with them)…and even posted a “30 Lives” karaoke session. Heck, we’ve even done weird versions of our own songs. Nevertheless, it’s always … Read More
As you are likely aware, I do have extensive spy training, much of it undertaken to resist information extraction using Sodium Pentothal®. However, after entering the sordid, bibliophilic world of the library, the combination of allergies from book dust and … Read More
…which also happen to be stickers, are now on the way. These will be available to those who qualify for access to our collections. Design by Sophia Cacciola
Here is Poster #5 in the MJEML Poster Series Don’t forgot to come to our CD release on 2/26 (special discounted advance ticket/CD combo here!)
What’s strange about this is not so much the video, but that it actually has more views than anything else we’ve got on Youtube. Anyway, here’s a slideshow of this Italian motorcycle racer to “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)” for you … Read More