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
The Vivs’ 2nd Annual Holiday Bash and Benefit!Saturday, December 17th, 2011; 6:30 p.m. The Regent Theatre Featuring An All-Star Lineup of Bands and Performers: • Big Dipper• The Vivs• Tanya Donelly and Bill Janovitz• Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling• The … Read More
Sleepover Shows (an awesome video sessions blog – with previous sessions with MJEML and a piece on Occupy that we participated in) has got the holiday spirit, and they are releasing a series of bands doing holiday-themed songs. Ours went … Read More
TIME Magazine Online has featured Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling’s music video for “Episode 1: Arrival” on their Top Ten Creative Videos for 2011! TIME LINK. We are so, so delighted to have received this incredible honor! here’s … Read More
Travis Simpkins delighted us a few months ago with an illustration of Michael and I in our various attires for three of our bands: Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, and Space Balloons. … Read More
Sleepover Shows is one of my favorite things on the ol’ Internet. They record special acoustic sessions with great bands in interesting settings. They’ve done sessions with some of my favorite bands ever like: Cloud Cult, Frightened Rabbit, Walter Sickert … 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
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
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
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
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
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
As you likely are already aware, our band Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling performs original music inspired by The Prisoner. Each song pays tribute to a particular episode of the show. We made this crazy music video recreation … Read More
We’re bringing Prisoner-rock to the people this weekend! Please join us/tell your friends to join us in Brooklyn & Philly! 9/3/11 SATURDAY$5 · Spike Hill Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling (9PM)I Love Monsters(10PM) 186 Bedford Ave, Williamsburg -Brooklyn, … Read More
Very excited to present our second music video (for our first music video, which was a shot-for-shot remake of the opening sequence to The Prisoner, click here) for our cover of Leonard Cohen’s “First We Take Manhattan” behind the scenes … Read More
It’s Sophia’s Birthday Show! August 19th at TT the Bears Place, Cambridge MA Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling are planning an extra special set – and an extra special set means extra special guests – we’ll be joined … Read More
December ’11 update: We were very honored to have TIME Magazine Online select our video as No. 6 (we see what you did there) in its Top Ten Creative Videos of 2011 List – TIME LINK July 11 update: … Read More
Some people may not realize it, but Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is just Sophia Cacciola rocking the drums and singing while I play bass. When people hear our record, they often ask me if I played the … Read More
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling and Parlour Bells are playing tomorrow at The Lizard Lounge, Cambridge MA and we decided to collaborate on a cover song – it was all supposed to be a delicious secret, but in … Read More
Last month we were very pleased to release our epic Prisoner-recreation music video for Episode 1: Arrival (read about it here and here). Watch that video here. Michael & Glenn hard at work microfilm props! But last July we were … 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
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
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
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
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