This week’s edition of Rock Beat is, sadly, very slim. Sophia’s Rock Beat happens every Monday and is a repository for all of the video of local Boston bands I saw the week before. Previous Rock Beats are here. This … 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
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Live photos and video archives
As always, you can find other weeks of The Beat here. This week started out with Boston Band Crush’s One Night Band night at the Enormous Room. The ladies from my One Night Band from last Summer (10 Hours of … 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
Photos by Michael Basu – http://michaelbasu.com First, I really want to thank everyone for their support. It has been a really rough couple of days. I really know now how many supportive and caring people there are in my life … 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
In case you missed it – this is the column (this is the third installment!) where I talk about all of the shows I saw the week before and post video. You can read the previous two by clicking right … 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
What the heck can I say about this? Here are a whole bunch of dancing cartoon characters – Santa, Fry from Futurama, a banana, and others – all grooving to The Motion Sick‘s “30 Lives (Up-Up-Down-Dance Mix)” for your amusement.
Saturday, Feb. 12th at Great Scott is the highly anticipated CD Release for Naked On Roller Skates‘ debut, I lost my heart in the battle. Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling is opening up this show, which includes the arena-worthy … 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
This is the second installment of my new column, Sophia’s Rock Beat. The point of this is to highlight the shows I saw the week before and the video I took at those shows. Here’s last week’s (which recapped most … 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
The situation is that Michael and I go out A LOT to see our fellow local rockers, well, rock out. And, because we’re awkward and we need to be doing SOMETHING with our hands while being rocked we take a … Read More