Tomorrow is a day of great excitement for us. We’re opening for Richard Lloyd. As you may or may not know, Matt and Travis participated in The Cult of Point Break Society’s Tribute to Television last year (The Motion Sick … Read More
The web page http://konamicodesites.com/ gives a list of all of the sites that do something neat when you enter the Konami Code. What is the Konami Code? Give a listen to our song “30 Lives” at: http://themotionsick.com/temp/TTWCYJW/TheMotionSick-TTWCYJW-02-30Lives.mp3 or even watch … Read More
The Motion Sick has been declared “Best Local Rock Band 2009” in the Boston Phoenix: http://thephoenix.com/theBest/Boston/Arts/Localrockband/. This is a great honor to us and we thank everyone who put in a good word at the polls. —-Our pals in the … Read More
The Boston Globe has an article about the demise of Pontiac with an accompanying video. In the video, they interview a couple of Pontiac muscle-car enthusiasts including Dan Poole, owner of the 74 Pontiac Ventura muscle car seen in the … Read More
The Luxury – Seriously, what nerve!?!?! These guys get together and start writing these songs that stick in my head all day. They go work hard on the songs until their performances are tight and spot-on. They have these damn … Read More
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Rock on kids, these are some amazing photos. by Kelly Davidson at: (Facebook – part 1 – part 2) by Johnny Arguedas at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/arguedas/sets/72157616468046847/ by Sooz at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/sooz/3423852133/in/photostream/ by Selene Angier at:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=67645&id=526914798&ref=mf by EKS Productions: by Morgan Terrinoni:http://www.flickr.com/photos/brudy/sets/72157616669387072/
Well friends, we did not win our night of the Rumble competition, but we had an incredible time. The show, at The Middle East, was so sold out by the time we went on, that multiple people who had stepped … Read More
The Rumble Lots of excitement here in the land of The Motion Sick. First of all, this Tuesday,we’ve got a big, exciting show at The Middle East. We’re competing in the 31stannual WBCN Rock ‘N’ Roll Rumble. This is the … Read More
A couple of days ago, we were featured on BeatCrave and I really appreciated what they had to say. As they promised, they wrap the week with a poll to select the most craved beats (or something). We’re matched with … Read More
We’re experimenting with a new service called Gimme Sound. The idea of it is that fans can download music for free and the company splits its ad revenue based on the number of downloads you receive. So, as an extra … Read More
Summary of Coverage (beyond just listing the shows): WBCN Official Page Weekly Dig Guide (PDF) Ryan’s Smashing Life Boston Globe:Interview with Anngelle WoodRumble Curse Gallery (which actually isn’t about the curse at all, but rather famous rumblers)Losers Were WinnersBoston Band … Read More
Sometime in early 2001, I wrote a song called “Love Conquers All.” At the time, I was performing, mostly solo, under the moniker Boys Suck. Among the very cool and flattering things that happened back in those days was the … Read More
– If my recall has not failed me, I don’t think we got anywhere near this when the album came out over a year ago, but here we are riding a local wave of support – we’re in the Rumble, … Read More
The very cool kids over at BeatCrave wrote up a story on us that is one of those pieces that makes me feel very pleased. In addition to being super nice and saying all encouraging words, they have captured the … Read More
From our web page with video and photos at: http://themotionsick.com/themotionsick/tour2009/tour2009video.html Perhaps the highlight is the videos of the newly commissioned state songs: …or if you’d rather watch the individual state songs: AR,CT,KY,MD,NY,NJ,OH,PA,RI,TN,TX,TX (Reprise),VA,W.VAIn addition to the state songs, we kind … Read More
We had a blast down at SXSW this year and we have some photos and video to share with you from two of our four shows. 3/19 – The Green Light Go and Hard Pressed Publicity Showcase at Fran’s Hamburgers … Read More
Usually, Green Light Go is busy telling all of the hip kids about how great The Motion Sick is. Well, this year at SXSW, GLG’s Janelle Rogers was featured pretty prominently in an article in SXSWORLD Magazine, which is given … Read More
We were originally scheduled to be on the bill for this awesome show, but unpredictable weather patterns, the peanut crisis, and hypoallergenic flowers have forced us to change our plans…but holy awesome music, this is a good show. We will … Read More
ATE somehow kept coming up during our journeys this year. We had a couple of video experiences to document these thematic appearances. First, you probably have already seen our initial performance of ATE’s “Sometime Around Midnight” in car. You know, … Read More
We already posted the original vimeo video interview and performance back here. Now, the interview and performance are posted as separate videos on Youtube. “30 Lives” performance Interview If you like this stuff, you can also check back to the … Read More
The final day. We left Philly on the late side after a slow start. We arrived in NYC, parked near the venue (Arlene’s) and scooted over to the East Village, where I dragged everyone for a couple of quick vegan … Read More
We had a slow start to the day and inched our way East to Philadelphia. We popped into the Noddinghead Brewery, which was a site most enjoyed by Patrick and Travis on a previous visit to Philly. We got some … Read More
3/23 We woke up and headed on down to do a quick interview at WBWC in Cleveland. We may or may not have scared the DJs a little bit with our silly antics. First, if you’ve been watching our videos, … Read More
3/22 We drove all night, with a 7 AM stop at The Waffle House, to get to Akron. The Waffle House has virtually nothing I would eat, so I ordered two pieces of wheat toast with jam and rocked out … Read More
3/21 We busted out of Austin on the early side and headed up to Memphis. The drive was long and a bit dull. We were definitely burning out on these long drives. The band we were playing with had contacted … Read More
So far, I’ve only had a chance to upload photos to Facebook due to poor Internet connectivity, but we’ll get all this up on our web site in the near future: Green Light Go / Hard Pressed Publicity Showcase http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=72858&id=500296772 … Read More
The Ten Crack Commandments Bad Music Joke Notsuoh Venue Tour Texas State Song Tennessee Arkansas State Song
3/20 We woke up earlier than we would have liked, ensuring that we only allow ourselves less than 5 hours of sleep a night for our big day. I say big because we had three shows and I had to … Read More
3/19 After 2 days of nothing but driving and no real eventful stuff, we finally were in Austin. Dave and Andre of Same Sky Studio were very kind and let us crash at their place and eat their food, drink … Read More
You may recall that last year, we made a short film in West Virginia called “Loneliness of the Long-Distance Driver.” It won several Academy Awards, but was snubbed at The Golden Globes. This year, we decided to make a sequel … Read More
Hope, Arkansas 2008 Hope, Arkansas 2009 …and just a little bonus video of Pat and Travis making DX7 noises here…
A little look at what we eat on the road…
Matt and Travis were unfamiliar with the Airborne Toxic Event song “Sometime Around Midnight.” Patrick and Mike make them familiar. A rift ensues.
Intro Jam Bands The States
So, in preparations for tomorrow’s journey, I decided to update our trusty band GPS so that we have the latest and the greatest. So, I follow the instructions and head on down to the software download section of the Sony … Read More
Tomorrow morning, we head out over the horizon to rock the people of far-away lands… We hope to blog regularly and post video, pictures, and other nonsense…so please stay tuned here for the next week or so. I will also … Read More
We’re excited that the Rumble info has been announced. We’ve got a particularly tough lineup to compete with on Night #3, but we’re thrilled to give it our best and have a good time! 2009 WBCN Rock n’ Roll Rumble … Read More
Ryan’s Smashing Life, one of our most favorite music blogs wrote a very kind piece about our upcoming travels today: “Dateline: AUSTIN, TX – the SxSW Music FestivalIt’s been an odd evolution for rock and pop music when one considers … Read More
We’re not really so vain, but we are currently in the running for “Best Rock Band”in two different competitions. First, we are finalists in the Boston Phoenix Best of 2009 Poll for “Best Rock Band,” so head on over and … Read More
As you are all aware, we’re headed down to Austin for SXSW next week. So, I’ve been reading all of the news and gossip about the festival. There is a funny article on Paste at http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/03/lions-and-tigers-and-bears-beware-nine-band-name-trends-on-the-rise-at-sxsw.html in which they perform … Read More
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It was officially announced yesterday that The Motion Sick will be competing in the 31st annual WBCN Rock ‘N’ Roll Rumble, the longest running battle of the bands in the entire country. You can read the whole history here: https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/?s=http://www.bostonbandcrush.org/2009/03/information-crush-wbcns-rock-n-roll.htmlThe … Read More
Live Photos from Friday’s show: http://themotionsick.com/themotionsick/livephotos-09-03-06.html
I prefer not to give away any plot elements in the comic or film, so I am approaching this from a distant point of view. When I first read Watchmen around 1986, I was in sixth grade. I was immediately … Read More
Please head on over and vote for us. The process is as follows:You go here: …select The Motion Sick and hit submit. Then, you must hit “skip to finish” and enter a name and e-mail address. We have some seriously … Read More
We’ve got so much exciting stuff going on that it’s hard to even imagine making it fit into one tiny e-mail: Summary: 1. SPIN and Commercial Radio Love The Motion Sick 2. Boston Music Seen Video Magazine Features The Motion … Read More
http://www.spin.com/articles/spin-picks-more-undiscovered-bands-worth-listen SPIN has included us in its latest round of “Undiscovered Bands Worth a Listen” They also selected our song “Winged Bicycle” to include in the SPIN/Sonicbids Emerging Artists’ Showcase Radio show, which was featured on WFNX this past Friday. … Read More
This Friday at midnight, The Motion Sick will be one of the bands played on the Spin Magazine / Sonicbids Emerging Artists Radio Show on WFNX. That’s 101.7 FM in Boston, 92.1 FM in New Hampshire and online at http://www.wfnx.com. … Read More