Check out the fascinating similarity between Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk on Water” (2017) and The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008)!
Check out the fascinating similarity between Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk on Water” (2017) and The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008)! The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008) Read “Walk on Water” by The Motion Sick on Genius Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk … Read More
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” featured on The Anchorite Soundtrack. Download it free!
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” is featured in the film, The Anchorite! Stubborn guitarist Aaron Black finds himself unceremoniously ejected from his band and takes revenge by hijacking the tour. But when his manager insists he take on Chelsea as … Read More
Sophia and Michael’s 2013 in Review!
Sophia & Michael hard at work 2013 was a weird and wonderful year of many projects of the film and music variety. Here is the past: 2012 Review – 2011 Review Before we get started, we made a few year-End Lists/Summaries: http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2013/12/30/bostonemissions-favoritesoftheyear2013/ http://trainwreckdsociety.com/2014/01/ … Read More
Farewell to The Pill!
I moved to Boston back in 1998 and despite my current rule about refusing to participate in any activity that involves moving the lower half of my body in sync with music, I used to actually like dancing. In 1998, … Read More
The Motion Sick’s reunion show videos! July 13, 2013 with Parks, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, This Blue Heaven, Wash Pool
The Motion Sick had a blast returning to the stage at Brighton Music Hall! It was a lot of fun to get to do it again and to share the evening with all of you. Here are some videos of … Read More
The Motion Sick plays “30 Lives” and “Grace Kelly” on Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood
It’s the first performance by The Motion Sick in 3 years! Travis, Matt, and I played two songs on Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood in celebration of our reunion show at Brighton Music Hall on July 13th. Check it! If … Read More
Which “30 Lives” is better? The Motion Sick vs. Imagine Dragons
All the kids keep tweeting about this band Imagine Dragons’ song “30 Lives,” but let’s not forget who had a song called “30 Lives” first kids! Is ours better? Well, it definitely has more dancing bear mascots and 80s movie/Konami … Read More
Sophia and Michael’s 2012 in Review – TEN, DNFMOMD, MJEML, Darling Pet Munkee, Space Balloons, and more…
2012 Recap! Okay, 2012 was a big one. Here’s 2011, that was big too, but different. After last year, we had the lofty goal of releasing 10 albums in 2012. We would have done it too, if we didn’t get … Read More
The Motion Sick – Landing Page
[The Motion Sick Home][Listen/Buy Music ] [ Lyrics ] [ Bio/Press ] [ Blog/News ] [ Past Shows] [ Live Photos/Video ] [ Video ] [Mailing List ] [Contact] “After suggesting another Chris Carrabba copycat, The Motion Sick overturn a … Read More
RIP Brent Grulke. My interview with him from 2009: How does one get a SXSW Showcase?
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
The Motion Sick’s “Grace Kelly” now available for play in Rock Band! How do I do singing it for the first time?
UPDATE 8/9/12 – “Grace Kelly” is now available on PS3 as well as XBox (“30 Lives” is available on both as well.) A very kind review: http://www.rockbandaide.com/17070/rbn-highlights-trial-by-fire-the-motion-sick-death-of-the-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rbn-highlights-trial-by-fire-the-motion-sick-death-of-the-cool http://www.rockband.com/blog/new-to-rbn-8912 We had previously unveiled “30 Lives” for Rock Band and I even gave … Read More
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Young woman grows a mustache to “I Grew A Mustache”
I support the growing trend of women finding ways to grow mustaches. This innovative young woman has apparently developed an elixir for just the occasion. One sip of the elixir plus a few rounds of calisthenics and her lip is … Read More
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: The 30 Lives of Haruhi Suzumiya
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
Nightmare Tour Story from The Motion Sick’s 2006 Tour featured in the book Another Nightmare Gig From Hell
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
How Much Do You Need to Operate a Band? $100,000 to ramp an indie band to success…perhaps true, but not in the form of the unbelievably poorly conceived article on TIME
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
Sophia and Michael’s 2011 in Review – DNFMOMD, MJEML, Darling Pet Munkee, Space Balloons, The Motion Sick, and 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
The Motion Sick’s “Losing Altitude” featured on PBS’s History Detectives
Starting at 16:23, you can hear The Motion Sick‘s “Losing Altitude” Video: Season 9 Propaganda Leaflet,Tiffany Window & Spanish Civil War Eulogy Watch the full episode. See more History Detectives. Losing Altitude by The Motion Sick
The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” featured on Logo’s Chris and John to the Rescue
“Walk on Water” appears around 6:30 Gay Video & Lesbian Movies – Logo: Fierce TV <p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://music.themotionsick.com/track/walk-on-water”&amp;gt;Walk on Water by The Motion Sick&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p>
Michael J. Epstein plays “30 Lives” on Rock Band for the first time! What score does he get on Expert Vocals????
Watch and find out… I mentioned that “30 Lives” was now on Rock Band a bit back… Update: For whatever it’s worth, I got a 99% the second time I played…but it will take at least 3 tries to get … Read More
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” now available on Rock Band Network!!!
We are very excited to announce that “30 Lives” is now available for purchase and play for Rock Band on the XBox! (UPDATE 2/14/12: Also available for PS3!!!) Here’s a test run of the gameplay of the track in Rock Band! … Read More
The Motion Sick Live Photos
[Home][Listen/Buy Music ] [ Lyrics ] [ Bio/Press ] [ Blog/News ] [ Past Shows and Live Photos/Video ] [ Video ] [Mailing List ] [Contact] The Motion Sick – Live Photos Please note: none of the photos in this section are cleared for reposting or press use The Motion Sick at The Rosebud 01/09/10 Somerville, MA Photo Gallery … Read More
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Music for Fetishes + “Jean-Paul” + Awesome new Youtube feature that may help us sell some music to fetishists!
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
The Motion Sick – Past Shows
Live photos and video archives
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: A Variety of Dancing Cartoons to “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)”
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.
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” featured in the film _The Flying Scissors_ (on Netflix streaming now!)
<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
The Motion Sick: “30 Lives” cover
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
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Valentino Rossi, Motorcycle Racer Slideshow to “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)”
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
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Clothed Bath to “30 Lives” (wet clothing fetishists are fans of The Motion Sick?)
Unfortunately, embedding is disabled on this one, so you have to head on over to Youtube to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JHNXGs0gnA I don’t really totally understand it, but it certainly feels like yet another strange fetish video that is tame enough … Read More
Michael J. Epstein’s 2010 in review…
Here’s a quick recap of all my musical nonsensicals in 2010 broken down by project (see also Sophia’s recap): The Michael J. Epstein Memorial LibraryWith The Motion Sick winding down in 2010, it was time for me to decide what … Read More
A song just like The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” – sort of…
I find this song pretty amusing. Quite similar to our song “30 Lives” (below)
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Point-of-view Jet Skiing to “30 Lives” (Golden Bloom cover!)
Sure, we’ve have a bunch of Youtube videos that we’ve found that randomly contain “30 Lives” by The Motion Sick, but we invite you to join us in this historic moment in which the Golden Bloom version of “30 Lives” … Read More
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” music video in HD!
30 Lives HD (be sure to click the option to set it to 720p 30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix) HD (be sure to click the option to set it to 720p I honestly am not sure why I didn’t post these … Read More
Strange Vids Featuring TMS: Little Girls Twirl Umbrellas to “Grace Kelly”
Not much to say. Little kids. Twirling umbrellas. “Grace Kelly.”
Neutral Uke Hotel / The Motion Sick / Golden Bloom session on Daytrotter!!!
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney I posted a while back about our visit to Daytrotter. Now, I am absolutely delighted to say that our session has been posted! For anyone that doesn’t know about Daytrotter, it is an amazing site that … Read More
MJE Dancing to DDR X Arcade featuring The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives”
After some time searching, I finally ended up at an arcade that has DDR X. We don’t have very many arcades in Boston, but I am in New York this weekend to visit family for the holidays. We were seeing The … Read More
The Motion Sick’s Patrick Mussari (and daughter) featured in Kelly Davidson’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Parents Photo Exhibit
The fourth installment of photographer extraordinaire Kelly Davidson‘s Rock ‘n’ Roll Parents series, which began in 2005, features The Motion Sick‘s very own Patrick Mussari with his daughter Charlotte (seen at left on the flyer). The photo exhibit runs for all of November … Read More
The Girls of The Motion Sick = Sweetest Thing Ever (with video!)
(I had originally posted about the event here.) Let me just start with, a HUGE thanks to: Agent Mike Bishop, Leesa Coyne, Veronica Dale, Kelly Davidson, Sophia Cacciola, Jen Johnson, Tad Mckitterick, Kate Murdoch, J-Krafty, Sarah RabDAU, Matt Graber, Peter Moore, Eric … Read More
Michael J. Epstein: The Clone Wars
There have been a number of “incidents” in which seedy folks have decided that they would attempt to steal my identity…probably because they were jealous of all the people pointing and laughing at me on the subway and stuff like … Read More
Dramamine: The Girls of The Motion Sick 10/22/10!!
Show recap and videos now at: http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2010/10/girls-of-motion-sick-sweetest-thing.html Dramamine: The Girls of The Motion Sick On October 22nd – the wives, girlfriends, and close female friends of The Motion Sick will be performing a farewell tribute to the band (The Motion Sick … Read More
Billy Joel vs. The Motion Sick
Travis caught The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” on VH1 as lead-in during top 10 videos countdown….for one of Mike’s least favorites, Billy Joel. When SPIN first wrote about us, they claimed we had “lyrical call-outs to Billy Joel tunes.” ( … Read More
The Motion Sick’s Last Show For Now Recap
A huge thanks to everyone that joined us last Saturday to make our last show for the time being into something very special. Thanks to Tim Briggs (organizer of Virgo A Go Go) and all of the bands and the … Read More
The Motion Sick says farewell (for now)…
Tomorrow night, The Motion Sick plays what I can best describe as its goodbye-for-now show. It happens at TT the Bear’s, which is the same stage where we held our first real show, a CD-release party for Her Brilliant Fifteen. … Read More
Neutral Uke Hotel: A Visit to Daytrotter!
Daytrotter (read more about them on Wikipedia) has been one of my favorite web sites since, about 4 years ago, Andy and Jen from Band In Boston (another really great sessions site) told me about how they modeled their Flophouse … Read More
Myspace is going to fail unless they do what I tell them…
I am not an expert analyst consultant new media web 2.0 guru monkey VC master, but I can see the obvious. Myspace started to bomb out because it was completely useless as a social networking tool. My band, The Motion … Read More
The Motion Sick: “Aquaman’s Lament” Acoustic Cover
I love seeing/hearing people covering our songs. This is a great acoustic cover of “Aquaman’s Lament” by a fellow in Brazil.
The Motion Sick: The Rock Primary Live Videos
The votes are still being counted (also, I don’t think we actually care who won, nor do we even know what we were running for, but hey…), but the videos are in from the show! The night opened with the … Read More
I’m A Liker Not A Fighter T-Shirt
The ever problematic Agent Bishop has caved in to mass hysteria and demand for a piece of memorabilia designed to celebrate my frequent use of the “like” option on Facebook. I present to you, his creation (initially made in short … Read More
The Motion Sick: The Rock Primary Campaign Videos Get Dirty!
Our opponents in The Rock Primary are spewing totally slanderous garbage. You’ll be hearing our response to these allegations soon and our opponents will be hearing from our lawyers soon! Campaign videos from our opponents:http://www.youtube.com/user/therockprimary All Campaign Videos: http://bit.ly/cGvV9Z Cast … Read More