We explain a bit about the origin of Space Balloons here. The characters were created for Rob Potylo‘s children’s show, Worried All the Time. While napping after a particularly hearty meal of grapes, Balloononians Sophia (Sophia Cacciola) and Michael (Michael … Read More
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
Indie baroque-pop octet The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library teams up with BalletRox to present: “BalletRox Springs Out of the Box,” a variety dance show including live music accompaniment, designed in conjunction with the Mayor’s office to break down racial … 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
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library plays with The Boston Typewriter OrchestraThursday, May 19, 8:00 PMPassim Folk Music & Cultural Club47 Palmer St.Cambridge, MATickets: $15For tickets and information: 617-492-7679 or http://www.clubpassim.org The show is celebrating The Boston Typewriter Orchestra’s new single: “Entropy Begins … Read More
The awesome Local Music 101 show episode 8 includes an interview and live performance from 5/5 at Porter Belly’s Pub in Brighton by The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Like Local Music 101 on Facebook!!!
Tanya gets the good word from superhero The Tick! See more interviews with Tanya.
The beautiful and talented Kelly Davidson captures The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library performing “Stranger” as part of her live acoustic sessions series (see all sessions for more of MJEML and some Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling videos … Read More
The beautiful and talented Kelly Davidson captures The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library performing “Lymph Nodes” as part of her live acoustic sessions series (see all sessions for more of MJEML and some Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling … Read More
I wrote a bit about my points of discussion when I spoke on the panel Local Media and Culture: What Does It All Mean for the Music Scene? at the The National Conference for Media Reform last month. I actually … Read More
When you see a giant cow in Iowa City, you naturally rock out in and around it. This is a two-part series with a performance by The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library up soon, but for now, here are our … Read More
Our debut album, Volume One, is released today! Spinner/AOL is helping us celebrate by streaming the entire thing on their Full CD Listening Party this week along with Fleet Foxes, Manchester Orchestra, Pearl and the Beard, Okkervil River, The Cars, … Read More
The beautiful and talented Kelly Davidson captures The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library performing “Civil Engineering” at the World’s Largest Truck Stop as part of her live acoustic sessions series (see all sessions for more of MJEML and some Do … Read More
Tanya gets the inside scoop from Elm Street slasher Freddy Krueger. See more interviews with Tanya.
The final interview in the tour series…Michael J. Epstein.
A little post-tour wrap-up with Matthew Girard…
The beautiful and talented Kelly Davidson captures The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library performing “Amylee” as part of her live acoustic sessions series (see all sessions for more of MJEML and some Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling videos … Read More
Big thanks to Rick Taylor for videos and photos!
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
Andrew reveals that he his Taco Bell baby may be possessed by an evil force. Tanya asks the hard-hitting questions…
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library joins Brown Bird (recently back from a tour with Devil Makes Three) at Porter Belly’s in Brighton (38 Washington Street Brighton, MA 02135 tel. 617-254-3300)to perform an intimate live set (will we all even fit in … Read More
What is Kimchi? Holly Collins and Tanya Palit know.
Josh talks French with Tanya…
Tanya asks Kelly how she got into Mike’s pants…
Shawn is put on the spot by Tanya and must name all of the tour participants…
Tanya quizzes Sophia Cacciola…
Tanya gets down to the truth with Susannah P!
Another hard-hitting look at tour…this time, Tanya Palit sits down with Rachel Leah Blumenthal.
More on the MJEML/Golden Bloom/Neutral Uke Hotel tour coming soon, but let’s get started with some of the hard hitting on-the-ground journalistic investigation of Tanya Palit. We’ll have a series of interviews coming up. Today, we start with Tanya Palit.
This morning, I am speaking on the panel, Local Media and Culture: What Does It All Mean for the Music Scene? (http://conference.freepress.net/session/505/local-media-and-culture-what-does-it-all-mean-music-scene) I am specifically on the panel to discuss how local media can be used to build up a … Read More
Buy our CD for $10 + $2 shipping anywhere in the U.S. and Canada and $10 + $5 shipping worldwide. We will additionally offer a package deal of 5 copies (they make great gifts!) for the discounted price of $40 … Read More
All right kids, you may remember the last time we posted an interesting fetish video from Youtube featuring the music of The Motion Sick as the soundtrack for a fully clothed guy soaking himself in the bathtub….well, now we’ve got … Read More
A huge, huge thanks from all of the wings of the library for making our sold out CD release a smashing success!!! We really appreciate your kind and generous outpouring of support and we had more fun than we ever … Read More
The MJEML is going on tour with our good pals Golden Bloom and Neutral Uke Hotel in April. Tour Dates: Wed. 4/20 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA (tickets selling fast!) – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182411545112392 Thurs. 4/21 – Cameo Art-Gallery – Brooklyn, NY – http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115042465240542 Fri. 4/22 – The Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH … Read More
I was really excited to witness a new crop of female rock stars last night at the Ladies Rock Camp showcase. On Friday, around 30 women with little-to-no experience playing their instrument gathered together, formed bands, went through intensive music … Read More
As we approach our CD release show, we’ve got a lot of exciting stuff coming through the pipeline this week. This particular set of videos, from our Sleepover Shows session, is really exciting to us. We had a really awesome … Read More
Right before I left for Switzerland, Sophia and I discussed the mustache situation in the best way we know possible, we communicated by song. It was mostly her idea and she started writing this number about wanting a mustache back … Read More
Well, I’m here in Switzerland and they do a lot of fascinating scientific work in this country. I feel like I’m in a spy movie. I’ve been sworn to secrecy about my precise location and who I am being treated … Read More
Here is poster #7 in The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library poster series.
In response to the loss of Mustachey… I am really sad to report that Sophia won’t go with me to the Winter Formal. She is now looking for a new mustached man to take. I was really excited about it … Read More
Photos by Michael Basu – http://michaelbasu.com There comes a time in every mustache’s life when we must wave goodbye to follicular joy and say hello to the bare, unprotected skin of an upper lip. Although I never wanted to say … Read More
Back in the 90s, I used to do a lot of sound collage work under the name M-sli©k da ninjA. The project started as a radio show on WHRW inspired by Ken’s Last Ever Radio Extravaganza and Over the Edge (and … Read More
The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling Space Balloons Special Friends Neutral Uke Hotel The Motion Sick Skippy, The Mummified Squirrel of Elm St. in Somerville The Positronic Rays Michael J. Epstein’s Mustache M-sli©k … Read More
I am quite excited to announce that I will be speaking at The National Conference for Media Reform as part of a session on the connection between a healthy local media system and a vibrant local music community called “Local … Read More
Special Friends: Five friends. One show. Zero chance. “What Does It Mean to Be Special (Special Friends Theme)” My Friends are special. What does it mean to be special?Let’s look and see…
<p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://music.themotionsick.com/track/30-lives”&amp;gt;30 Lives by The Motion Sick&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p> Very excited to say that The Motion Sick‘s song “30 Lives” appears in the film The Flying Scissors, a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary examining players in a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament. The song appears in a … 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