What do you do when you’re a crazy bunch of people traveling in a 15-passenger van across the country? You record two sessions – one for Daytrotter.com and one for Laundromatinee.com – 6 hours driving apart, on the same day. … Read More

We headed out to Iowa City on Easter, expecting to play to absolutely no one. To our great surprise, a small, but solid and enthusiastic gang joined us to celebrate Neutral Milk Hotel’s _In the Aeroplane Over the Sea_. Before … Read More

We made the journey to Chicago and after a little bout of carsickness for some of our more drummerish members, we grabbed some food at Schubas and hung out a bit in the green room with the lowest ceiling in … Read More

by Rachel Blumenthal After a tricky day in NYC with the health inspector, we drove through a little late-April snow in Snow Shoe, PA to make it out to rainy Cleveland and rock a return visit to The Grog Shop … Read More

[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

We started the rock in NYC (after Boston of course!) and had some Brooklyn fun times at Cameo Gallery after a few challenges and delays brought on by a sudden health inspection at the venue! Review by What’s Good in NY? … Read More

Photo by Rachel Blumenthal This is the first in a series of tour blogs I’ll be posting recapping the amazing Neutral Uke Hotel / Golden Bloom / The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library 2011 tour! You can check out all … Read More

Biography ★ BLOG/NEWS ★ High Res Photos CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE hosted by DALYA, MISTRESS OF THE MUNKEES (includes music videos for “MONSTER S-I-Z-E MONSTERS” and “Genuine Soil from Dracula’s Castle”):   MUSIC VIDEO FOR “X-RAY SPECS” (more info on music … 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

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

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

(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

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

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

Michael J. EpsteinBook Shelver, Due Date Stamp Cleaner, Pervy Computer User Kicker Outer, Ukulele, Voice Michael J. Epstein, great-great-great-great-great grandson of Michael J. Epstein is allowed to work in the library because he has the same name as its honoree … Read More

The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Archives presents former band members… Sasha GoldbergHead Curator of Special Collections and Archives, Trumpet, Organ, Keys, Thunder Stick Sasha was raised to be a classically trained flute player but decided that science was a lot … Read More

Jane AllardStacked Collection Curator, Melodica, Glockenspiel, Voice Jane has parlayed her few years of piano in middle school to an on again/off again keyboard gig in various projects. She has recently turned to several new instruments and has realized that the … 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

Rachel Leah BlumenthalSenior Cataloguer of Plague-Era Autobiographies, Flute When Rachel isn’t playing whatever instrument she can get her hands on – most often flute, piano, and oboe – she’s writing about science, food, or the science of food. She eats ghost … Read More

Susannah P.Assistant Director of Returning Books on Time, Viola, Voice Hailing from Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Susannah moved to Boston after finishing her undergraduate degree in Viola Performance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Having studied at both … Read More

Sophia CacciolaBeatbinder, Acquisitions, Drums Sophia was hatched from a dinosaur egg at Natural Bridge, VA. She is also the frontwoman/drummer for the no-wave art-rock Prisoner-inspired band, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. Favorite Author: Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina is the … Read More

We bring you a series of features on the fine staff of The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library. Lisa BattistonAssistant Shelver to the Dean of Mass Market Literary Literature, Bass Several years ago, Lisa was formerly playing a not-so-great guitar in … 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

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 Sophia mostly (with a few additions from Mike) says: We woke up early to go visit the 62′ Touchdown Jesus statue in Cincinnati – Mike visited … Read More

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:Day 5 was an open (no show) date on our tour, so we were forced to do the right thing – the right thing being to help the … Read More

Way more about Foamhenge and Natural Bridge, VA to come, but for now, here is the first of two live acoustic Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling performances at Foamhenge in 90+ degree weather (as always, it’s unusual for … Read More

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 (This entry is a mix of Sophia and Mike writing, so we’ll leave it to you to guess who the “I” refers to in each sentence.) We woke up … Read More

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 We’ll start things off with Sophia’s brief summary of the day before moving on to my rant: We drove and drove and drove. Learned never to take an exit … Read More

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 After much fighting with Thrifty (really not that much) about how we had a reservation, but they didn’t actually have a vehicle for us to take. I don’t really … Read More

If you’ve run into Mike or I in the last month (or, if you’re friends with us on any variety of social networks) you’ve undoubtedly been barraged with the fact that we’re headed out on our very first tour! We’re a little bit freaked … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The illustrious local ROCK photographer Kelly Davidson, along with  the luminous Eric Schmider (of Mollycoddle and The One Smith) are teaming up to put out a cookbook full of recipes from … Read More

all links go to something interesting. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling: In July we recorded 3 songs with Mike Quinn at The Moontower (download them here!), and had a kick-ass photo shoot with Kelly Davidson. In August, we … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). 11/20/09 House of Blues: Metric started out mellow, opening the night with “Twilight Galaxy,” and surprisingly to me (I would have thought they’d save “the big hit” for the encore) they jumped … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Joe DeGeorge of Harry and the Potters was profiled on PBS’ The Secret Life of Scientists – the interview explore the dichotomy between scientist  rockstar. He is hilarious as always. I … Read More

This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). The most complicated endeavor we have ever been involved in planning, One Night Band is here!!!  We’ve gotten quite a bit of coverage and expect it to be quite an exciting … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Obviously, I’m a huge music nerd and I enjoy pointless trivia. These two facts have converged in my curiosity over how bands arrive at their band names, and what they mean. … Read More

Thanks to all you kind folks who made it out to Dave Duncan Virr’s Birthday show!  We had an absolute blast playing, broke everything in sight, and were thrilled to be on a bill with such great bands: Hymns, The … Read More

Readers of this blog know that I am a big fan of Michel Gondry. I wrote a little entry a bit back about his director series DVD at: http://www.mikeandsophia.com/2009/01/motion-sick-work-of-director-michel.html So, when I found out that he decided to do a whole … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). This is it. This is what it’s all boiled down to. Twenty four bands have been whittled down to the final three who will battle it out for the Rumble crown … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). Indie boy/girl suave-sters, MEandJOANCOLLINS, are releasing their new CD this Friday at The Paradise, opening up for World/Inferno Friendship Society. For you Boston-holics, World/Inferno is currently on tour with Brian Viglione … Read More

Rock on kids, these are some amazing photos.   by Kelly Davidson at: (Facebook – part 1 – part 2) by Johnny Arguedas at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/arguedas/sets/72157616468046847/ by Sooz at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sooz/3423852133/in/photostream/ by Selene Angier at:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67645&id=526914798&ref=mf by EKS Productions: by Morgan Terrinoni:http://www.flickr.com/photos/brudy/sets/72157616669387072/

Well friends, we did not win our night of the Rumble competition, but we had an incredible time. The show, at The Middle East, was so sold out by the time we went on, that multiple people who had stepped … Read More

This article originally appeared on Boston Band Crush ). The lovely ladies, Linda Viens and Emily Grogan, of Angeline:  2009 Rumble Questions: Are you excited to be participating in the 31st WBCN Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble? Yes, we are very … Read More

Animoto is a site where you can upload photos and music and it makes a dynamic slideslow of sorts. It’s kind of an interesting idea. I am not blown away by the results, but I didn’t really expect to be. … Read More

I am just beginning the healing process after a series of 3 shows in 3 days. As always, a variety of nonsensical videos are available here. On Saturday, we played in Washington, DC at The Grog and Tankard. It was … Read More

Here are some awesome, awesome photos by Kelly Davidson. Lots more great ones here. One of the photos of Matt will be appearing in the next issue of The Noise! Sophia also took some awesome video of us rocking the … Read More

Driving back from Texas was the longest I’ve ever spent in a car in two days in my entire life. My legs cramp up just from thinking about it. Watch the videos for any funny stuff; especially Pat getting pulled … Read More

So… the last day of the tour. We had two shows and an interview planned; I knew this would be a long day. After we awoke from our relatively decent slumber from the previous evening had to get a move … Read More

Austin during SXSW was an overwhelming experience. When we first arrived, I was sure that I would have a bad time. It was crowded, I wasn’t hipstery enough, there was cacophonous resonation with every step. We’d already been on the … Read More