To All of My Dearest Friends, PLEASE DON’T VOTE! I hope you will very carefully consider what I have to say and will choose not to go to the polls this Tuesday. You are just one small person. You won’t … Read More
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This guy is awesome. I hope we get a chance to play with him again soon. Here he is performing “Black Man” opening for Chuck Berry. My favorite part is when security yells at the girl taping the performance… Listen … Read More
It looks like Reverbnation might be a quick solution to getting all of our content posted in many places easily. I am not 100% sold on it yet, but it seems pretty good. I really wish I could group songs … Read More
We’re one of 15 finalists in the Pick the Band / WFNX contest to open for The Miracle on Tremont St. show with Vampire Weekend and Black Kids. The show will take place on December 7th at The Orpheum. More … Read More
Um, the Brits are way ahead of us here across the pond… -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
Here’s the video/audio edit included in Dance Dance Revolution X (Playstation 2) and Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3 (XBox 360). The video quality is relatively poor, but it’s just posted for the sake of seeing how they trimmed the song … Read More
You may be friends with us on myspace, facebook, or any of 100 other sites, but we just can’t directly contact any of you via any of those systems. They really are not implemented for bands contacting fans. For bands, … Read More
Our song, “Walk on Water” is the 2nd song featured in this video clip from the show Roadtrip Nation. I also got my copy of Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3. Now I just need to find someone with an … Read More
Unfortunately, this person must have set the background setting all the way down, so you can barely see the video, but anyway, here is the first glimpse of someone playing DDR Universe 3 and dancing to “30 Lives.” -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The … Read More
You may remember a few months back at our 100th show, we were lucky enough to share the stage with Shawn Fogel. Well, Shawn and his pals have made it official and declared that their band shall forever forth be … Read More
Here is a scrollthrough of the menu on the new XBox 360 game Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3. I’ve not see a copy myself. At time 1:51, you’ll notice The Motion Sick…right next to Devo. -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog … Read More
Just so I can say I told you so… I just watched the new trailer for Watchmen – Watchmen is, in my opinion, the best comic book ever written. It is an amazing story with interesting depth and complexity layered … Read More
The Motion Sick will be opening this awesome charity show on November 6th at Church. The Cult of Point Break Society, an all-star charity band, will be performing Television’s “Marquee Moon” and assorted related tunes. Matt and Travis from The … Read More
The days of mix tapes are essentially over. Sadly, the care, thought, and work that went into making them will never be understood by the CD/MP3 generation. Anyway, Claudia Gonson from The Magnetic Fields shares one of her mixtape experiences: -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- … Read More
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In my second super-hero silly Sunday…Spiderman! -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
Thanks to Derek Sivers and Jenny Holzer, I don’t have to think of new things to write songs about for a long while. For those of you struggling with songwriter’s block, there’s a neat list here: Here’s a tracklist for … Read More
Back in March, on our way home from touring, I saw a parking space reserved for Metcalf Crump (see https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/2008/03/httpwww-mikeandsophia-com200803motion-sick-tour-2008-indianapolis-35-html/. At that time, I said:However, in the parking garage, we saw a space reserved for Metcalf Crump. If ever a … Read More
Thanks to Ryan’s Smashing Life, the superrad Boston music blog, for featuring us as one of the “Seven Bands Who Make Ryan’s Life So Smashing” Ryan’s blog is chock full of good stuff, so it’s definitely worth adding to your … Read More
A great read by reporter Jed Gottlieb. The affairs of local Hardly Art (a label that I am quite fond of) act, Pretty & Nice are outlined a bit. They talk about the realities of the current music industry and … Read More
I had previously posted about the “My Name is Sarah” Project, in which swing-state voters named Sarah who support Obama. Here’s a follow-up. “My Name is Sarah” project With the Democrats ahead in the polls, and all our friends and … Read More
Derek Sivers, founder of CDBaby and real indie music industry guru of sorts, wrote a neat little thing on how we anchor things to the monetary value that we first experience. http://sivers.org/uncomparable how did Starbucks successfully start charging $4 … Read More
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We’ve just earned the above banner as we’ll have some music used in the 2008 season of the PBS show Roadtrip Nation. http://www.roadtripnation.com/ -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
Don’t Overestimate Free Part 2 – A follow-up to that previous post. Not as exciting this time, but a bit more… http://cameronmizell.blogspot.com/2008/10/dont-overestimate-free-part-2.html -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
I’ve already declared my love for monkeys on this blog. Dudes in monkey suits, loved not quite as much, but still pretty good. Here, not even Wonder Woman can talk sense into this wacky “gorilla.” Man I forgot how cheesy … Read More
Some video of Dead Confederate at TT’s the other night. They are on Conan O’Brien in a few minutes… -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
As I think about new models in music and money (and whether there is even any reason to try to make music and get it out to people when the musiconomical climate is so bleak), I sometimes come across essays … Read More
Here he is (click for a bigger version)… http://www.themotionsick.com/themotionsick/talk-noise2008-10.html They also make an interest mention in the news section that our first album Her Brilliant Fifteen has led us to be selected as band of the month in Spin Magazine. All … Read More
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I love Dead Confederate, who we shared the stage with last night at TT’s. Some video of that show on the way, but here’s a little video bit from Rolling Stone promoting them. They’ll be on Conan O’Brien this Friday … Read More
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Catch of the day Chicago’s Catfish Haven tops a particularly strong bill of up-and-coming indie rock bands at T.T. the Bear’s tonight. Haven is touring in support of its new album of homegrown soul and funk, “Devastator.” Dead Confederate (of … Read More
In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the famous David Fricke says: I caught only the last quarter-hour of Dead Confederate’s set opening forR.E.M. at SXSW this year. But even that short shot of the Athens,Georgia, quintet’s buckskin-metal racket was … Read More
Friends,In case you don’t want to read the whole e-mail, here’s a summary: Monday. Best show in the universe. My favorite Boston Band Mean Creek and my favorite national band Dead Confederate! Come early! Don’t miss it! Here’s more: We … Read More
Just to give you all some more insight into what the music business is like… ——– Hello, I am writing to inquire about my 2008 Q1 Royalties. Presumably, this reflects the period of 1/1/08 to 3/31/08. During that time, … Read More
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Another wave of quotes regarding the sketchiness of the new Myspace Music. I sense an exodus coming unless they can make things a little more fair… I really hope they work it out and that everyone gets paid equally for … Read More
I’m pretty sure I’d just scream like a tiny little girl and run for my life, but this radio announcer here knows that his voice keeps the people of his nation strong and lively and he must not stop, even … Read More
Thanks to everyone for coming out tonight in spite of all of the political excitment. We’ve got a last minute (well, 1 1/2 weeks away) show addition. You’ve all seen me gush about Dead Confederate. Well, we’re opening for them! … Read More
I realize that I’m posting a lot of political and economic stuff lately. I guess it’s just what’s going around. Anyway, I keep reading more and more about the economic “crisis” and the bailout and I really am wondering if … Read More
This is an interesting article over on The Tripwire. It all really just sounds scarier and scarier for indie artists. I am not ready to yank all our stuff from myspace just yet, but I have the impression that this … Read More
09/26/08 TT the Bear’s Place Cambridge, MA 9:15 PM – The Motion Sick10:15 PM – The Rones11:00 PM – Taxpayer12:00 PM – Dear Leader $12 -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx- The Motion Sick Blog – https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/
Myspace Music launched today. I am not linking to it nor do I really want to promote it. I write only to complain that we still have no access to monetizing our music through it. So, while plays of major … Read More
I am a regular reader of the Help A Reporter Out mailing list – http://helpareporter.com/ It’s a two-to-three times a day list of calls from journalists seeking people to interview for articles on an endless variety of topics. Even though … Read More
I’ve recently become a big fan of This American Life on NPR. I particularly enjoyed the segments of episode 363 – Enforcers. You can listen at: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Archive.aspx Here is their description: Prologue. Joe Kocur was a hockey enforcer for the … Read More
My essay for the Why Obama? series on Largehearted Boy has been posted at: http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2008/09/why_obama_by_mi.html Go on over there to read it. Here I comment on the process of writing such an essay… Kid Rock made an interesting statement recently:“I … Read More
Taxpayer is the cover story in this month’s Northeast Performer and we’re playing with them this Friday! Check out: http://www.performermag.com/nep.cover.0809.php They’ve got an oldish, but awesome music video that involves lots of TVs, something that most certainly gets me every … Read More
The information menu says: The credits scroll pretty fast, so it was hard to get a clear photo, but here they are: “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)”Performed by The Motion Sickwritten by Michael EpsteinProduced by Anthony J. Resta with Rich Curtis … Read More