I’m tired of people asking me what Mike and I eat. Would an omnivore have an easy time answering this question? Mostly, we eat vegetables/grains/legumes/fruit. I cook everything I can in my trusty cast-iron pan. I tend to lean towards … Read More
A while back, I did some short interviews with local girl drummers whom I admire. I’ve been sitting on these thinking I’m going to do something huge with them, but I’ve come around to thinking I should just post them! … 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
It’s time yet again for an examination of the item behind the Darling Pet Munkee song! There is sadly little of real consequence or excitement about the Jet “Rocket” Space Ship! Update 1/13/12 – Secret Fun Blog has some images … Read More
11/18/11 we did the two-show hop between The Middle East Upstairs for Future Carnivores, Brendan Boogie and the Best Intentions, Muy Cansado, and John Powhida International Airport and TT the Bears Place for The Dents and Muck and the Mires. … Read More
November has been a crazy month of crazy awesome shows that I’ll be posting in two parts. Part one begins at O’brien’s – which I had not been to in a super long time and I was totally impressed with … Read More
Shift Your Shopping is a large-scale campaign to get consumers to choose local and independent when making purchases this holiday season. From their “mouth” (i.e., website): As customers, we are about to collectively spend a large portion of our annual … Read More
This is in response to the saga of buying MJEML’s _Volume One_ on vinyl (when it doesn’t exist on vinyl). —- From: “Tristan Diesel” To: Epstein.Michael.J Subject: My Photo in your blogg = violation of copyright Dear Mr. Epstein, I ask you – … Read More
Much belated at this point, here’s video from our Halloween adventure! It’s Boston-rock-band tradition to pick a band and BE them for Halloween – this is not just playing the songs note-for-note, this includes dressing and stage-bantering and drinking like the act … Read More
Our buddy Aviv (from the awesome band, Pray for Polanski) is making a movie called Pie Heaven! As is the new way, the funding is coming from a campaign via Kickstarter – so do check out their Kickstarter page and consider … Read More
Go “like” the On The Town with Mikey Dee facebook page! OTTwMD plays local Boston music and is on every Wednesday from 9pm-Midnight and almost always features a live band around 10:30 – it’s on 91.5 WMFO – http://wmfo.org. Send your CDs … 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
Update: Kirk very kindly plugged our project on his blog: http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/2011/12/darling-pet-munkee.html Borrowed from Secret Fun Blog You may be inclined to think that just because we in Darling Pet Munkee sing songs about Sea-Monkeys and X-Ray Specs that we don’t know how … Read More
Earth Children, Space Balloons appeared in your Earth newspaper, The Boston Herald! 2011-BostonHerald Earth children, Space Balloons are now beaming photos to your computer…they have arrived: Space Balloons are also proud to beam to you our visit to Planet Allston … Read More
Fred the Somerville Turkey has become something of a local institution. (Here’s a great piece about why there are turkeys in Somerville that also features our song.) Official Turkey spokesperson Rachel Leah Blumenthal has provided us with the photo on the … Read More
I’ve been meaning to resume The Story of the Song, a series highlighting the stories of individual songs (or groups of songs) for a long while. After reading this Rolling Stone article today, I was inspired to tell the story … 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
While we have informally already allowed the recording of shows and numerous people have posted live video of The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, a recent request from Brian H. to include an MJEML show on the etree.org Live Music Archive … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library had a blast sharing a 2-night run with Michigan’s Nervous But Excited and wanted to share some video to show you how awesome they are! The run with NBE was also a great time for … 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
10/15 brought us back to Radio in Somerville (formerly Club Choices) for Sarah Rabdau & Self-Employed Assassins (video), Garvy J and the Secret Pockets of Hope & Resistance (aka – the only band I trust with a 12-string guitar! video), and Eldridge … Read More
I have decided to post the complete collected tale of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Several people have requested this single post so that they could share it and easily get through … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here. We return for the final chapter of the saga of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Previous posts: 1 – ordered on … Read More
We had a total blast on Halloween performing the music of Darling Pet Munkee for the very first time! <p>&amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=”http://dpm-music.donotforsake.com/album/glows-in-the-dark”&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Glows in the Dark! by Darling Pet Munkee&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&amp;amp;amp;gt;</p> We want to thank UNregular Radio and Geekbeat Radio for having us … 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
It’s time yet again for an examination of the item behind the Darling Pet Munkee song! We’re working on a video for this song right now! See post 1 and post 2 about that! It’s hard to even begin to … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here. We return to the saga of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Previous posts: 1 – ordered on vinyl; 2 – relay order; 3 … Read More
Would you like to hear the best ever (i.e., only) surf/garage/punk songs all about items sold in the backs of old comic books live?Now’s your chance! This Halloween (10/31), you can come see the late-night, worldwide, debut of Darling Pet … Read More
Cute Little Tiny Artist Unknown I did already post this on Facebook and enjoyed much reaction there, but I thought this deserved a whole blog post! In what was probably the greatest thing to happen since my niece asked if … 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
UPDATE: See the final video at: http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2012/06/darling-pet-munkees-creature-double.html Darling Pet Munkee (a side-project from Michael and Sophia with Catherine Capozzi of Axemunkee) news is here! Boing Boing used another song of ours (“Darling Pet Monkey”) in a second Gweek Podcast! To celebrate we’re offering a free download of our entire 7-song record, Glows … Read More
Sleepover Shows: Occupy Boston: Music and ProtestSomething is wrong. If we cannot agree on everything, at least we can agree on that. For far too long people have been out of work. For far too long people have been losing … Read More
Nervous but ExcitedPhoto credit: Leah Schew The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library is very excited to share two evenings with Michigan-based, Pleasantly Aggressive Folk Duo Nervous but Excited (Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver). [web][Facebook][Twitter] “ahhhh… organic and rich like good … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here. We return to the saga of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Previous posts: 1 – ordered on vinyl; 2 – relay order; 3 … Read More
We just wanted to pass along a huge thanks to Berklee Pulse for including us in the BANDED project. We’ve spent the last six months or so being followed as we wrote, developed, received expert faculty coaching for, and premiered … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here. I like to put a face to the name. This is the best picture I could find of someone named Yokesh K. I will now assume that this is … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee – Genuine Soil From Dracula’s Castle UPDATE: See the final video at: http://blog.michaeljepstein.com/2012/06/darling-pet-munkees-creature-double.html Darling Pet Munkee (a side-project from Michael and Sophia with Catherine Capozzi of Axemunkee) has been getting some lift-off in these past few weeks! All of … 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
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 complete combined story has been presented in a single post here. We return to the saga of buying The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library‘s Volume One on vinyl…only problem is…it’s not released on vinyl. Previous posts: 1 – ordered on vinyl; 2 … Read More
We of The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library were very grateful to be one of the recipients of the Passim Iguana Music Fund in late 2010 to help us pay for mixing and mastering for our debut album, Volume One. … 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
9/8 we went to Church – first of the night was Hayley Jane & The Primates – Hayley was in the Liars & Believers play, Song of Songs, that The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library opened up for – she has … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here .Previous posts: 1 – ordered on vinyl; 2 – relay order; 3 – order shipped; 4 – Vinyl Received The lovely analog sound of MJEML – special thanks to Jon … Read More
The complete combined story has been presented in a single post here .Previous posts: 1 – ordered on vinyl; 2 – relay order; 3 – order shipped After a bit of waiting, we return to the tale of buying The Michael … Read More
We’ve already tackled X-Ray Specs, Darling Pet Monkey, and Sea-Monkeys. A recurrent theme in the Darling Pet Munkee world is that most of the items sold in the back of comics were essentially giant rip-offs. The ads implied that these … Read More
For several months, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library has been under the lens of a crack team of Berklee PULSE documentarians! On October 6th at Brighton Music Hall, some of their work will be revealed! Here’s a trailer for the … Read More
We had a blast playing at the Philly F/M Fest this year and particularly in sharing the stage and the evening with friends! Here are some vids from the night and some links to the great artists that we shared … Read More
Just a quickie to remind you all about the Neutral Uke Hotel / MJEML showcase at the Philly Film and Music Fest this weekend! Check out the awesome acts on our showcase below and make sure you get there early … 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