On 6/20 Special Friends aired our first episode at The Rosebud. The night was also video taped for a future episode and friends were asked to sing open-mic style songs about Star Wars. We had no idea that these songs … Read More
June 3rd was the final Ad Frank & The Fast Easy Women show – I got 8 videos of them! below is the playlist. I also got video from Count Zero and MEandJOANCOLLINS (links go to videos). The next night … Read More
Okay, so I’ve been really bad at updating this since getting back from the Neutral Uke Hotel/Golden Bloom/The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library tour at the end of April. Right when we got back, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My … Read More
Thursday, Doomstar! and DNFMOMD have the pleasure of opening up for White Fence (Tim Presley of DARKER MY LOVE/THE FALL) and The Strange Boys at Church Thursday, June 23rdChurch of Bostonwith: Doomstar!, White Fence, The Strange Boys$10adv/$12 day of, 18+, … Read More
Watch the video at Magnet! For those curious on just how close (it’s disturbing, really) we got it to the original – here is a link to a shot-within-shot video of The Prisoner (1967) and “Episode 1 – Arrival” (2011) and … Read More
CD cover art It’s a bit belated now, but we had an incredible CD Release for Questions Are A Burden to Others (officially out on 6/7/11) on 5/13/11 at a full Middle East Downstairs! We played with our good friends … Read More
Episode 12 – Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling put your pen, to the papersave your heart for someplace laterthe ink twists and bendsdon’t you sign away your name again your mind is up and it’s walking aroundonly ever … Read More
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
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
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
This one is going to be short and sweet since I just want to get these videos posted! Every single band in the Rumble semi-finals was total awesomeness! From Semi-Finals Night 1: Spirit Kid – video 1, video 2Sidewalk Driver … Read More
Last night was the final night of preliminaries of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble! Cradle to the Grave began the night with the most rocking fiddle of the week! AND they all wore matching western shirts. Video 1, Video 2. The … Read More
So, Night 5, my band Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling got to go to bat at this “competition” (while there is a “winner” every night – the real excitement of this is seeing new bands, seeing everyone play … Read More
Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble Night 4 was the most raucus yet! Tons of people and the single-craziest set I’ve seen so far! It was my first time seeing TRiPLE THiCK and I thought they were awesome – though I have a big soft … Read More
Holy cow are we ready for the day of rest! Night 3 of the Rumble was just as rocking as the previous two! Things started up with The Autumn Hollow Band (whose singer played barefoot – an offense that always … Read More
It’s only Night 2 and this Rumble is kicking my butt…with so much awesome! Full Body Anchor started the ROCK right at 9 Video. Tijuana Sweetheart then charmed TT’s with their all-girl punk rock – Video 1, Video 2. A … Read More
Sophia’s Rock Beat is devoted to taking video of local bands and posting it. Read previous Rock Beats HERE. It has been a busy couple of weeks since returning from Austin for SXSW. Our first stop was the BUFF (Boston … Read More
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble is back and in a big way! There has been some great press leading up to the start:The Boston Phoenix (with a lot of trash talk from Michael J. Epstein’s Mustache)The Weekly Dig FlipbookThe Boston … Read More
This post is a little outside of my intended use of “Sophia’s Rock Beat” but I thought it was the best place to discuss all of my thoughts on SXSW in general. Here is the link to the post where … Read More
Sophia’s Rock Beat is where I blog video of local Boston bands that I saw the week before. (previous Rock Beats). This week is a bit of a departure because I’m going to include video of all the bands we … 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
videoing Boston one show at a time. Sophia’s Rock Beat – the mission is simple – go to as many shows around Boston as possible and take video then post it here. Previous Rock Beats are here! Another slim rock … Read More
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
This week’s edition of Rock Beat is, sadly, very slim. Sophia’s Rock Beat happens every Monday and is a repository for all of the video of local Boston bands I saw the week before. Previous Rock Beats are here. This … Read More
As always, you can find other weeks of The Beat here. This week started out with Boston Band Crush’s One Night Band night at the Enormous Room. The ladies from my One Night Band from last Summer (10 Hours of … Read More
In case you missed it – this is the column (this is the third installment!) where I talk about all of the shows I saw the week before and post video. You can read the previous two by clicking right … Read More
This is the second installment of my new column, Sophia’s Rock Beat. The point of this is to highlight the shows I saw the week before and the video I took at those shows. Here’s last week’s (which recapped most … Read More
This year has been a little hectic with wrapping up the process of putting out The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library debut album, _Volume One_. There are a number of new regular columns we plan to debut here in 2011 … Read More
The situation is that Michael and I go out A LOT to see our fellow local rockers, well, rock out. And, because we’re awkward and we need to be doing SOMETHING with our hands while being rocked we take a … Read More
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
DNFMOMD on TOUR!photo by Kelly Davidson The Prisoner- top still from our recreation- bottom I’m breaking this up into groups – starting with my reason for justifying how I live my life, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. 2010 was … Read More
still of Mike in a Quiet D episode. It’s a fairy tale story of the local youtube reality-sitcom that makes it to TV! The brain-child of Rob Potylo, Quiet Desperation will debut on MyTV (Channel 18 in Boston) at 11PM … Read More
photo taken by the talented and beautiful Kelly Davidson Mike “Agent” Bishop, our longtime merch-guy, tour manager, our boy-Friday is leaving our little fold to concentrate on his new position as an official Outback Juggalo Hunter. We thank him … Read More
‘Round October I had decided that DNFMOMD would take a break from shows until 2011 – after all, we’re working fairly constantly on 2 music videos (here and here) and will be recording another EP at the end of December … Read More
We’re super excited to be playing this show celebrating Rob Potylo’s new CD _Something happened at Horse Lake_ and the debut of Quiet Desperation (which we have had small cameo roles on) on TV – more info at December 2, 2010 … Read More
my MJEML bandmate, Rachel Blumenthal caught this awesome moment Nate Greenslit (of HUMANWINE) and Vessela Stoyanova (of Goli) just launched their brand new project, Bury Me Standing with a month-long residency at the Lizard Lounge. I liked the band name … Read More
Final video info / screen shot comparisons / video itself (6/9) here!!! 3/13/11 Update (last 3 days of shooting and preliminary screening info here!) Around this time last year, Mike and I approached Theodore Cormey of Lost Jockey Productions about … Read More
The Rock Shop social media experiment last night was a grand time. Big thanks to Steve, Clay (it was his birthday even!), Charles, and everyone else for letting me be involved with the panel and for letting Do Not Forsake Me … Read More
I am very pleased to say that a slightly streamlined version of this is up over at Music Think Tank and another published in Performer. Photo by Kelly Davidson I am quite honored to have been asked to participate on the … Read More
The Middle East Nightclub and Restaurant on Wed, October 6th at 7 PM entitled “Rock Shop Boston #8: A Social Media Experiment.” The event will feature a panel including members of the bands Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (Michael J. Epstein will be … Read More
Last Friday we all learned a little something as we all filed in for back to school time at the second annual What’s Your Major at Church of Boston. There were also VERY informative sessions from:Shoney Lamar & the Equal … Read More
Special thanks to Juliet Schneider for her work on this! On a separate note, here’s some work by Joe Harrington showcasing mixed martial arts in stop-motion action featuring the music of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling.
Last year, Sophia, Brendan Boogie, and I put together two nights of comedy and music intertwined as a special back-to-school weekend called “What’s Your Major?” To promote that show, Brendan and I (with the help of Sophia as camera person) … Read More
There has been a lot of media coverage lately of the Wikileaks controversy. Somehow, top secret documents and other materials appeared on this web site. At first, we found it fascinating and wondered whether the increased transparency was good or … Read More
To the people that made our hilarious-adventure a reality: photo by the beautiful and talented Kelly Davidson Agent (Mike) Bishop was indispensable to us on the road. His official title was ‘tour manager’ – in this capacity he made hotel … Read More
The very last day of our tour blog…sniff sniff. Tons of tour photos on Flickr at and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384673&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2385257&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384885&id=1817487, and http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2386913&id=1817487 Sophia says: Finally! No hotel check outs or 6 hour drives! We got to sleep … Read More
As always, tons of tour photos on Flickr at and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384673&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2385257&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384885&id=1817487, and http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2386913&id=1817487 This is perhaps our least exciting tour blog entry, so please read the others too! Sophia says: Pittsburgh to Rochester was quite … Read More
As always, tons of tour photos on Flickr at http://bit.ly/DNFMOMDTour2010 and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384673&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2385257&id=1817487, http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2384885&id=1817487, and http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=2386913&id=1817487 Sophia says: Today we woke up extra super early because we had a radio appearance to make at the University of Pittsburgh station WPTS! It turns out … Read More