The 2nd episode of the new music TV show The Bubbler airs this Sunday at 11 PM on CBS TV38 (right between The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother) (11/25) and features an interview with Do Not Forsake Me Oh … Read More
We had a great time playing a full set on Somerville Rocks! (FB) on Somerville Community Access Television recently. The whole show is now available for your enjoyment. We even tried out a new song, “Episode 10 – Living in Harmony.” … Read More
Next up in our series of interviews with the cast of TEN, here’s Sophia Cacciola, who plays a folk singer in the film. (In real life, she sings too – and drums – in numerous bands, such as Do Not … Read More
We are playing a very special benefit show on Thursday to help our friends who lost their Columbia St. home to a fire. Very thankfully, everyone made it out of the house thanks to the help of the Cambridge Police … Read More
photo courtesy of RachelLeah Blumenthal We’re very, very excited to announce that Porcelain Dalya has joined the cast of TEN in the role of the “co-ed!” We’ve worked with Dalya extensively in our videos for Darling Pet Munkee – she’s … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is very excited to open for David J. (formerly the bassist, etc from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets!). Word on the street is that he will be playing music from both of those … Read More
Brent Grulke, Creative Director of SXSW music died at the young age of 52. I have had mixed feelings about SXSW for a long time, but it’s undeniably the case that it has become the defining showcase festival for young … Read More
On August 9th, 2012, a small army of artists from the greater Boston area (and beyond) gathered at Precinct Bar in Somerville to pay homage to heartbreak by covering a wide array of break-up songs. This is the mix CD … Read More
All Bands The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Darling Pet Munkee Space Balloons Neutral Uke Hotel
Parlour Bells just finished their new single “Airwaves” – a song inspired by the demise of WFNX and WBCN. The song explores just how significant a loss those stations are to the Boston music community. it also features a chorus … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling and Darling Pet Munkee play the Lynn OpenDTL after-party, The Meet Ball! Arts After Hours has more infoThe Meet Ball will be the after-party to the first annual openDTL event, a neighborhood-wide open house, … Read More
Last night Sophia won Best Female Vocalist 2012 from the Boston Phoenix for her work in Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling! Thanks so much to our friends and fans and everyone at the Boston Phoenix! It is such … Read More
Listen to the archive of the show (we performed “Amylee” and “Stranger” live and world-premiered the studio track “The Violinist”): Show preview:I am extremely excited to announce that The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library will be visiting Boston Emissions with … Read More
In addition to making some of our own music videos, we always have fun appearing as extras in other people’s videos. Here’s André Obin’s video for “Valencia” directed by Theodore Cormey, whom you may remember as the director of Do … Read More
We were very honored to win ‘Local Band of the Year’ from WMWM 91.7 Salem! We love thier initiative to support the local music community and are thrilled to be part of it all! Thank you WMWM – and especially … 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
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
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
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
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
As part of the Parlour Bells Heavy Dream Remix Project, I made this “Hurricane Mix” to help everyone dance safely through the 2011 hurricane season. The remix project got an official boost coming into 2012 and this mix got a … Read More
2011 was a really amazing year for us on all musical fronts; we released more music and videos than ever before, and we’ve put ourselves in a position for 2012 that should allow us to be in a constant state … Read More
Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Indie pop/folk ensemble[Web][Blog][Facebook][Twitter][Last.Fm][Youtube] Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Noisy, bass/drum duo – songs based on ’60s spy-fi show The Prisoner [Web][Facebook][Blog][Twitter][Youtube] Darling Pet Munkee garage/surf songs about items sold in comic books [Web][Facebook … Read More
This may be the last Rock Beat of 2011 before I do the full round-up with all the videos and stats of everything I saw, as we did last year! 2010 we saw 139 individual local bands and I think … Read More
The Vivs’ 2nd Annual Holiday Bash and Benefit!Saturday, December 17th, 2011; 6:30 p.m. The Regent Theatre Featuring An All-Star Lineup of Bands and Performers: • Big Dipper• The Vivs• Tanya Donelly and Bill Janovitz• Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling• The … Read More
Sleepover Shows (an awesome video sessions blog – with previous sessions with MJEML and a piece on Occupy that we participated in) has got the holiday spirit, and they are releasing a series of bands doing holiday-themed songs. Ours went … Read More
TIME Magazine Online has featured Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’s music video for “Episode 1: Arrival” on their Top Ten Creative Videos for 2011! TIME LINK. We are so, so delighted to have received this incredible honor! here’s … Read More
Travis Simpkins delighted us a few months ago with an illustration of Michael and I in our various attires for three of our bands: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, and Space Balloons. … Read More
Sleepover Shows is one of my favorite things on the ol’ Internet. They record special acoustic sessions with great bands in interesting settings. They’ve done sessions with some of my favorite bands ever like: Cloud Cult, Frightened Rabbit, Walter Sickert … Read More
Sure, I said we’d roll out one song a month, but in order to finish by the end of the year, we had to get a little bit ahead. So, as we had already presented a demo of this song … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is a feature interview in the November issue of The Noise (Boston’s longest-running music zine). Here is a link to physical locations that carry The Noise – and here’s a link to a PDF … Read More
This past weekend, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling played a superfun show as part of Projektfest 2011. Projekt is a specialty record label for “darkwave” music that has been around for 28 years. Projektfest is a sort of … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is delighted to be one of this year’s local openers for Projektfest (presented by Dark Sky Productions)! “Projekt is America’s premier independent record label specializing in passionately intense music in the darkwave, shoegaze, ethereal, … Read More
On Sept 29 we descended on Church for the Axemunkee CD Release for the record Vortex (which you can buy here!) Axemunkee video (1, 2, 3) and here joined by cello and additional guitar: also rocking that bill were Reverse … Read More
Our friends at AudioCotton.com have cooked up some pretty awesome new t-shirt designs for us! And, you can order right from them! Show the world your incredible taste in music AND fashion! Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling – … Read More
Do you have ears? Do you want to put some ridiculously good Boston music in your ears? NOW IS YOUR CHANCE! Allston Pudding‘s free Fall mix is here and it contains tracks by:CamdenDirty DishesGentlemen HallMean CreekBell & The BeesPileThe Michael J. … Read More
By now, you’ve likely seen our recreation of the opening sequence to the 1960s TV show, The Prisoner, and probably also heard us rambling on about how it took two years of planning and 11 days of shooting (link). And, … Read More
Oh hey! lots of live videos to share from the past month! On 8/18 we caught a very post-punk night at Church with 92 Protons (video 1, video 2, video 3) and Faux Ox (it was their CD Release; video 1, … Read More
“I don’t know what sort of perverse musical mind comes up with the idea of forming a nine-piece pop orchestra made up of eight girls who’ve never been in bands before and one guy who looks bizarrely like a young … Read More
As you likely are already aware, our band Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling performs original music inspired by The Prisoner. Each song pays tribute to a particular episode of the show. We made this crazy music video recreation … Read More
We’re bringing Prisoner-rock to the people this weekend! Please join us/tell your friends to join us in Brooklyn & Philly! 9/3/11 SATURDAY$5 · Spike Hill Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (9PM)I Love Monsters(10PM) 186 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg -Brooklyn, … Read More
Very excited to present our second music video (for our first music video, which was a shot-for-shot remake of the opening sequence to The Prisoner, click here) for our cover of Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan” behind the scenes … Read More
It’s Sophia’s Birthday Show! August 19th at TT the Bears Place, Cambridge MA Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling are planning an extra special set – and an extra special set means extra special guests – we’ll be joined … Read More
December ’11 update: We were very honored to have TIME Magazine Online select our video as No. 6 (we see what you did there) in its Top Ten Creative Videos of 2011 List – TIME LINK July 11 update: … Read More
Some people may not realize it, but Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is just Sophia Cacciola rocking the drums and singing while I play bass. When people hear our record, they often ask me if I played the … Read More