We are very pleased to announce that The Color of Air, a weekly interview podcast hosted by Greg Massi, (Baliset, ex-Kayo Dot, ex-maudlin of the Well), has released a second interview with us (Sophia and Michael), following up our 2014 interview.. … Read More
not a movie set scar! 2014 had its ups and downs… We managed to make a whole movie, Magnetic. We traveled with TEN at festivals and got distribution for it (will be out in April), and record some songs. … Read More
Tonight! 12/27/14 – 9 PM – $8Davis Square Theatre Revel in one last raucous burst of holiday cheer with a night of music and comedy from your friends at Old School Game Show, all to benefit Last Hope K9 Rescue! … Read More
We are very pleased to announce that The Color of Air, a weekly interview podcast hosted by Greg Massi, (Baliset, ex-Kayo Dot, ex-maudlin of the Well), has released an interview with us (Sophia and Michael). The Color of Air Facebook The … Read More
You might all remember the Somerville Ogler from Darling Pet Munkee‘s “X-Ray Specs” video! Our wonderful ogling performer needs your help! https://www.facebook.com/TheJennyPiFund Hey Everyone!As many of you know, I’ve been struggling with some pretty severe medical challenges for the last several … Read More
Bubbles in the Think Tank is an awesome radio show that happens Saturday nights at 11pm on WMFO 91.5FM. This is year three of Bubbles in the Think Tank presenting a record about records for Record Store Day. The previous two … Read More
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/ and … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee is opening the night of the FAUX OX CD release their sophomore effort, Bhopal Hoax! This is the last Munkee gig for 2013! Doors at 8:00 p.m. and show starts at 9:00 with Darling Pet Munkee at RADIO in … Read More
Videos thanks to John Doherty! Bob Colby Presents: Second Thursdays 8/8/2013 SET TIMES: (scheduled, might start a bit later)08:00-08:45 KENNE HIGHLAND CLAN09:00-09:45 MOOSE & THE MUDBUGS10:00-10:45 DARLING PET MUNKEE11:00-11:45 GRAVEDANCERS $7/21+GRAVEDANCERS are a new band with old-school roots in bands … Read More
Greetings from Spektor Island: music from the film TEN by Catherine Capozzi Greetings from Spektor Island: music from the film TEN by Catherine Capozzi is here for your ears! It’s a mix of score, character theme songs, dialogue clips, and a few bonus … Read More
We had the great pleasure of performing live on The Steve Katsos show (Facebook) on 4/23/13. (The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library also previously appeared on the show.) We shared the evening with Harrison Stebbins and Kristan Berona. PHOTO BY KELLY … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee is hitting the road on Saturday – first playing RECORD STORE DAY (fb event) at the Braintree Newbury Comics store inside the majestic South Shore Plaza (250 Granite Street, Braintree)! here are all of the acts playing: 1:30 … Read More
HOT GARAGE MESS at The Rosebud (Somerville, MA) Saturday night 3/30! VIDEO RECAP! Awesome redheaded sister/brother duo from Chicago, White Mystery: Thick Shakes, who we’ve had a crush on and wanted to play with since the Rumble 2011! and Electric … Read 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 a … Read More
I’ll post a full year summary soon, but here’s just a quick recap of what we managed to put out this year. Our original goal was to release 10 albums/EPs in 2012. We got a little sidetracked making movies and … Read More
We had a wonderful time at the SquidHouse of Horror releasing our 2nd EP, _You Better Believe It!_. There were some incidents including the glitterbombing of Bonesy, but we managed to put the vicious and bright attack behind us! The … Read More
Welcome to Darling Pet Munkee‘s Watch Dayla, Mistress of the Munkee host this double-header of terror and suspense! FEATURING: MONSTER S-I-Z-E MONSTERS and Genuine Soil From Dracula’s Castle Full Playlist Link Individual Videos Dalya, Mistress of the Munkee Part 1 MONSTER … Read More
On Halloween, Darling Pet Munkee will release our 2nd EP, You Better Believe It! That’s both the name of the CD and what you better do! Show Details (more info coming soon!): SquidHouse of Horror!Facebook eventHosted by Johnny Blazes – … Read More
boston phoenix covers the event! Radio (Bar Union) opened it’s doors in Union Sq. Somerville one year ago and was immediately irreplaceable – from the awesome Rocky and Hannibal paintings on the red brick walls to the Golden Smash to the … Read More
Complete Spotify Discography (for all bands) – all MJE/SJC discographies DARLING PET MUNKEE You Better Believe It! by Darling Pet Munkee Glows in the Dark! by Darling Pet Munkee
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The return of Sophia’s Rock Beat (FB)! First! What is SRB? Sophia goes to local shows. Sophia video-records these shows. Then Sophia posts them on the internet. It’s a thing. Seriously, you want me at your show, let me know- and make … Read More
A huge thanks friends for making our Darling Pet Munkee CD Release show a huge success!!! A tremendous thanks to all the bands, all in attendance, and to our burlesque accompaniment organized by Porcelain Dalya, featuring Strawberry-Cream Pie, Margaret, Tara Emory, and … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee wishes to thank the Academy…and remind you to come see our CD release on 1/14 at Radio!!!
While our first music video, “X-Ray Specs,” was scooting past the 20,000-view mark in just a few weeks, we were busy finishing the third and final shooting day for our second video – “Genuine Soil From Dracula’s Castle” – directed by … Read 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
Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Indie pop/folk ensemble[Web][Blog][Facebook][Twitter][Last.Fm][Youtube] Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Noisy, bass/drum duo – songs based on ’60s spy-fi show The Prisoner [Web][Facebook][Blog][Twitter][Youtube] Darling Pet Munkee garage/surf songs about items sold in comic books [Web][Facebook … Read More
We present to you – Kung-Fu Sandals – the final story and song of Darling Pet Munkee‘s debut EP, Glows in the Dark! (Other stories here.) While it was virtually impossible to track down any stories or examples of actual Kung-Fu … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee is a project for which Sophia and I have teamed up with Axemunkee‘s Catherine Capozzi to write songs about items sold in the back of old comic books! I’ve been writing posts recounting the stories of the … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee officially releases our debut album, _Glows in the Dark_ on 1/14/12 at Radio in Somerville! We are very excited to perform live in the venue that we shot our “X-Ray Specs” video! We’ll have guest burlesque and theater … 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
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
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 as … 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
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
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
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
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
Sea-monkeys (official site) are perhaps the quintessential item famed for being sold in comic books. As soon as Darling Pet Munkee saw the light of day, I knew that we had to write a song about the Wonderful World of Amazing Live … Read More
Darling Pet Munkee was originally a one-off (go here for the story of how it happened) recording project combination of Cathy Capozzi of Axemunkee and Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein of Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. We had so much … 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