Welcome to Darling Pet Munkee on Season 4 of July 5th, 2012.

• Michael J. Epstein - vocals/bass
• Catherine Capozzi - guitar
• Sophia Cacciola - drums

Sea-Monkeys, X-Ray Specs, and a necklace full of soil from Dracula�s castle are among the many bizarre items that were sold in comic-book ads of yore. Garage/surf rock supergroup Darling Pet Munkee aims to tell the tales of these lost items in song. In early 2012, the band released a 7-song EP, _Glows in the Dark!_ and on Halloween 2012 they released a second 7-song EP, _You Better Believe It!

The video for "X-ray Specs" has over 50,000 in part due to a debut on geek-culture blog boingboing: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/16/darling-pet-munkee-x-ray-sp.html

The band name is derived from both the sale of living squirrel monkeys via ads (�Darling Pet Monkey�E and the combination of Sophia Cacciola (drums, vocals) and Michael J. Epstein (bass, vocals) of The Prisoner-themed act, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, and Catherine Capozzi (guitars) of Axemunkee.

• web: http://darlingpetmunkee.com
• images of original ads for press use: http://donotforsake.com/dpm/ads
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/darlingpetmunkee
• email: sophia@donotforsake.com
• Blog/News: http://bit.ly/DPMnews
• Axemunkee: http://axemunkee.com/
• Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling: http://donotforsake.com/

About the band:
Catherine Capozzi is nothing less than a guitar goddess, a girl who can shred with the best of the boys. After being selected by Queen�s Brian May out of 104 guitarists to win a famed �Red Special�Eguitar, Catherine founded Axemunkee to highlight her original guitar-based compositions, blending a variety of musical styles including: majestic psychedelia, hard rock, surf music, Middle Eastern music, and Parisian swing. Axemunkee�s �Acid Django�Ehas been featured multiple times in the History Channel�s hit program, American Pickers. Cathy, known previously for her work with the band All the Queen�s Men and the Edith Piaf tribute band, Ziaf, was even mentioned in the book: She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul by British rock writer Lucy O'Brien and, appropriately, was the basis of a character in Marvel Comic�s Star Trek: Starfleet Academy - Dr. Capozzi, a �mad genetic scientist with a heart of gold.�E/p>

Sophia Cacciola and Michael J. Epstein together make up Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, an angular drums/bass duo performing songs based on the �E0s spy-fi cult-classic, The Prisoner. The band is currently two EPs (April 2010's The New Number 2 and June 2011's Questions Are a Burden to Others) into a project to write and record 17 songs, each one based on/inspired by an episode of the series and has recently released a painstakingly accurate, music-video recreation of the opening sequence of the show, The Prisoner, for their song, �Episode 1 - Arrival.�EThe pair also perform in the library-themed baroque pop ensemble, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library and the intergalactic children�s band, Space Balloons.