We had a great time as guests on Without Your Head on March 14, 2019 along with our pal, Jim McDonough! http://www.withoutyourhead.com/uploaded/mediafiles/WYH_190316.mp3 We’re also extremely honored to be the music of the month on the fantastic Without Your … Read More
Check out the fascinating similarity between Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk on Water” (2017) and The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008)! The Motion Sick’s “Walk on Water” (2008) Read “Walk on Water” by The Motion Sick on Genius Eminem and Beyoncé’s “Walk … Read More
The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” is featured in the film, The Anchorite! Stubborn guitarist Aaron Black finds himself unceremoniously ejected from his band and takes revenge by hijacking the tour. But when his manager insists he take on Chelsea as … Read More
I moved to Boston back in 1998 and despite my current rule about refusing to participate in any activity that involves moving the lower half of my body in sync with music, I used to actually like dancing. In 1998, … Read More
The Motion Sick had a blast returning to the stage at Brighton Music Hall! It was a lot of fun to get to do it again and to share the evening with all of you. Here are some videos of … Read More
It’s the first performance by The Motion Sick in 3 years! Travis, Matt, and I played two songs on Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood in celebration of our reunion show at Brighton Music Hall on July 13th. Check it! If … Read More
All the kids keep tweeting about this band Imagine Dragons’ song “30 Lives,” but let’s not forget who had a song called “30 Lives” first kids! Is ours better? Well, it definitely has more dancing bear mascots and 80s movie/Konami … Read More
[The Motion Sick Home][Listen/Buy Music ] [ Lyrics ] [ Bio/Press ] [ Blog/News ] [ Past Shows] [ Live Photos/Video ] [ Video ] [Mailing List ] [Contact] “After suggesting another Chris Carrabba copycat, The Motion Sick overturn a … Read More
Brent Grulke, Creative Director of SXSW music died at the young age of 52. I have had mixed feelings about SXSW for a long time, but it’s undeniably the case that it has become the defining showcase festival for young … Read More
UPDATE 8/9/12 – “Grace Kelly” is now available on PS3 as well as XBox (“30 Lives” is available on both as well.) A very kind review: http://www.rockbandaide.com/17070/rbn-highlights-trial-by-fire-the-motion-sick-death-of-the-cool/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rbn-highlights-trial-by-fire-the-motion-sick-death-of-the-cool http://www.rockband.com/blog/new-to-rbn-8912 We had previously unveiled “30 Lives” for Rock Band and I even gave … Read More
A true story from The Motion Sick‘s 2006 tour…ah, the good old days…of me being hit in the face with stuff. From this book: http://amzn.to/GOeYzQ – Also previous appeared here: http://www.tourdeath.com/post/15554275385/tour-tales-michael-j-epstein-of-neutral-uke-hotel
The Beginning The February West Coast Neutral Uke Hotel / Golden Bloom / The Michael J. Epstein MiXXXtape tour was amazing! Originally, I was slotted to open all the shows solo, but I managed to convince the amazingly talented players … 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
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
“Walk on Water” appears around 6:30 Gay Video & Lesbian Movies – Logo: Fierce TV <p>&amp;lt;a href=”http://music.themotionsick.com/track/walk-on-water”&amp;gt;Walk on Water by The Motion Sick&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;</p>
We are very excited to announce that “30 Lives” is now available for purchase and play for Rock Band on the XBox! (UPDATE 2/14/12: Also available for PS3!!!) Here’s a test run of the gameplay of the track in Rock Band! … Read More
Live photos and video archives
<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
We’ve posted covers of “30 Lives” and “Aquaman’s Lament” before (including Golden Bloom‘s cover on our split 7″ with them)…and even posted a “30 Lives” karaoke session. Heck, we’ve even done weird versions of our own songs. Nevertheless, it’s always … Read More
Unfortunately, embedding is disabled on this one, so you have to head on over to Youtube to see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JHNXGs0gnA I don’t really totally understand it, but it certainly feels like yet another strange fetish video that is tame enough … Read More
I find this song pretty amusing. Quite similar to our song “30 Lives” (below)
30 Lives HD (be sure to click the option to set it to 720p 30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix) HD (be sure to click the option to set it to 720p I honestly am not sure why I didn’t post these … Read More
Not much to say. Little kids. Twirling umbrellas. “Grace Kelly.”
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney I posted a while back about our visit to Daytrotter. Now, I am absolutely delighted to say that our session has been posted! For anyone that doesn’t know about Daytrotter, it is an amazing site that … Read More
After some time searching, I finally ended up at an arcade that has DDR X. We don’t have very many arcades in Boston, but I am in New York this weekend to visit family for the holidays. We were seeing The … Read More
I find eating disorders extremely upsetting. Here is a video of this girl who is already really skinny and looks great thinks she needs to lose 22 lbs. and is going to show weekly updates on Youtube. The video features … Read More
The fourth installment of photographer extraordinaire Kelly Davidson‘s Rock ‘n’ Roll Parents series, which began in 2005, features The Motion Sick‘s very own Patrick Mussari with his daughter Charlotte (seen at left on the flyer). The photo exhibit runs for all of November … 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
Before “Thundarr” became a huge international hit for The Motion Sick, I used to play it solo. Back in those days (see brief history), I enlisted the help of Mickey Stahl, who shot and edited this fine video below… Thundarr … Read More
There have been a number of “incidents” in which seedy folks have decided that they would attempt to steal my identity…probably because they were jealous of all the people pointing and laughing at me on the subway and stuff like … 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
Travis caught The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives” on VH1 as lead-in during top 10 videos countdown….for one of Mike’s least favorites, Billy Joel. When SPIN first wrote about us, they claimed we had “lyrical call-outs to Billy Joel tunes.” ( … Read More
A huge thanks to everyone that joined us last Saturday to make our last show for the time being into something very special. Thanks to Tim Briggs (organizer of Virgo A Go Go) and all of the bands and the … Read More
[Home][Listen/Buy Music ] [ Lyrics ] [ Bio/Press ] [ Blog/News ] [ Past Shows and Live Photos/Video ] [ Video ] [Mailing List ] [Contact] Major Press Accolades (Summary) College Radio History – Music Video Airplay – Press Kit Bio – Small – Large 30 Lives Music Video One Sheet AccoladesOne Sheet Press Clips Clips The Motion … Read More
Korean girl-pop band SNSD dances to The Motion Sick’s “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix).” This is particularly exciting because the video matches the music pretty well and it’s kind of eerie.
Tomorrow night, The Motion Sick plays what I can best describe as its goodbye-for-now show. It happens at TT the Bear’s, which is the same stage where we held our first real show, a CD-release party for Her Brilliant Fifteen. … Read More
Three librarians, Tanya K. Palit, Susannah Plaster, and Michael J. Epstein (me) paid a visit to WZBC on Friday to give the world premiere of a few songs and talk about Saturday’s debut performance at Cafe 939 (video, MP3s, and recap … Read More
Daytrotter (read more about them on Wikipedia) has been one of my favorite web sites since, about 4 years ago, Andy and Jen from Band In Boston (another really great sessions site) told me about how they modeled their Flophouse … 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
I am not an expert analyst consultant new media web 2.0 guru monkey VC master, but I can see the obvious. Myspace started to bomb out because it was completely useless as a social networking tool. My band, The Motion … Read More
Neutral Uke Hotel is most certainly all about taking a bizarre and unexpected journey for me. First of all, I really hate cover bands and tribute bands. I have no interest in hearing them and don’t really understand their appeal … Read More
I love seeing/hearing people covering our songs. This is a great acoustic cover of “Aquaman’s Lament” by a fellow in Brazil.
This article originally appears on Boston Band Crush ). Visit the One Night Band website and the Facebook event to find out more about One Night Band 2010 on August 21 at the Middle East downstairs. Check back here each … Read More
The votes are still being counted (also, I don’t think we actually care who won, nor do we even know what we were running for, but hey…), but the videos are in from the show! The night opened with the … Read More
Our opponents in The Rock Primary are spewing totally slanderous garbage. You’ll be hearing our response to these allegations soon and our opponents will be hearing from our lawyers soon! Campaign videos from our opponents:http://www.youtube.com/user/therockprimary All Campaign Videos: http://bit.ly/cGvV9Z Cast … Read More
Presently, we have two songs in Pandora’s system. We’re hoping to get more in, but there are a lot of complex and annoying barriers to this happening. Regardless, I thought it would be interesting to see what Pandora recommended to … Read More
Produced by Killer Suit Creative Media 07/16/10 TT the Bear’s Cambridge, MA Sidewalk Driver MidnightThe Motion Sick 11:00pmBrendan Boogie & the Best Intentions 10:00pmLeo Blais 9:00pm18+ Don’t vote for these jerks!
Hello Friends! Just wanted to give you all a quick update to let you know what we’re up to. The Motion Sick has decided to wrap up the 4-song recording we’re working on, play a couple more shows, and then … Read More