We had a blast on our first day of the Darling Pet Munkee “Sea-Monkeys” shoot. As per the song, the video will present the worldwide invasion by sea-monkeys. In fact, many people will find themselves eaten by sea-monkeys. The wonderful … Read More
For the remainder of 2012, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library will be releasing one recording per week of the 25 songs created to honor the speakers at this year’s TEDxSomerville, accompanied by videos of their TEDx talks (see all … Read More
We’ve already told you all there is to know about the fake trailer that we made for the movie TEN for the Brattle Theatre Trailer Smackdown, but in addition to creating our own trailer, we acted in another entry in … Read More
For the remainder of 2012, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library will be releasing one recording per week of the 25 songs created to honor the speakers at this year’s TEDxSomerville, accompanied by videos of their TEDx talks (see all … Read More
A huge thanks to Mark Kaye (HearNowLive) and Lionel Brown (HearNowLive and Onslaught Promo) for putting together this really excellent night and making it a huge success!!! We had the pleasure of rocking for the last time with Tanya Palit … Read More
I realize that by posting this, it will seem that I am somehow complicit in the affairs of Frank the Glitter-bombing fox (Frank Fox’s facebook page). I assure you that I am not, but I do find the whole thing … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee had a total blast rocking radio on the 7th. We were sad that Johnny Angel Wendell wasn’t able to be there to partake in his two-night hoot, but it was a grand time nonetheless! In addition to … Read More
It is with an extremely heavy heart that I announce the departure of Tanya Palit from https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/. Tanya has served as my co-lead singer in the band since its inception – additionally contributing ukulele, guitar, percussion (shaker!!! and cowbell!!!). She … Read More
UPDATE: Johnny is sick and can’t make it. The official word is now: 7/7 RadioWith Eric Martin and the Illyrians, Darling Pet Munkee, and the 360s! https://www.facebook.com/events/329900537097333/ Darling Pet Munkee will be monkeyrocking Somerville’s Radio (where we had our CD release … Read More
The video is here! Darling Pet Munkee will be performing a live set On Stage with Mantis on July 5th! The show will air at 10 PM on WCTV (info). An International Indie Music Concert TV series featuring Boston’s Best … Read More
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
July 13th at Church, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is opening for the soon-to-be-huge He’s My Brother She’s My Sister (currently touring with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes and opening for Neko Case the night before this show) … 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
We had already premiered “Faith in Free Part I” on MAGNET a bit back, but now the full 3-song “Faith in Free” EP is out!!! <p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://music.michaeljepstein.com/album/faith-in-free”&amp;gt;Faith in Free by The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p> “Faith in Free” is … 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
https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ Songbook – Faith in Free edition1.) Faith in Free Part I2.) Faith in Free Part II3.) Faith in Free Part III Faith in Free Part Iknells, ringing out, ringing out, fading out knells, ringing out, ringing out, fading out … Read More
Los Locos Manos full film, created for 48 Hour Film Project Boston 2012 All of our 48 Hour Films: LOS LOCOS MANOS!!! [Facebook] [https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/] “Los Locos Manos” screening happened: Kendall Square Cinema Group E Screening Thursday, May 24, 7 PM … Read More
You’ve already been told by The Boston Globe and Boston Band Crush to check out this month’s installment of Mondo Thursdays, but we thought we’d remind you once more… May 17, 2012The Plough and StarsMondo Thursdays presents:Sarah BlackerDarling Pet Munkee21+ … Read More
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
Poor Frankenstein’s monster (Frank, from here on in…) just can’t catch a break. He turns to online dating and goes on a series of bungled dates…until he finally meets the one… We hope to release this video and the video … Read More
As https://mjeml.michaeljepstein.com/ sets forth on our (now annual? – see last year’s adventure) East Coast run with Golden Bloom and Neutral Uke Hotel, we present to you a project celebrating the years of collaboration that we’ve had with the fine fellows … 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
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library’s “Amylee” music video has arrived! The “Amylee” music video is part of 2012’s 12-part PROJECT A.M.Y.L.E.E. for which we will present various versions of “Amylee” including covers, remixes, and session recordings! Most people are … Read More
A still from A Brief History of Flight THE PRESALE IS NOW CLOSED. SEE YOU AT THE SHOW! The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library has two very exciting shows coming up! We’ve decided to offer a special, limited-edition package ticket … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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