Released over a week subsequent to the 9/11 attacks, Eels’ Souljacker showcased Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Mark Oliver Everett’s—better known by his stage moniker “E”—typically grim worldview ...

All apologies to the Smashing Pumpkins, but the Eels” Beautiful Freak is the Mellow Gold of the Prozac Age. Beck wrote the definitive album about Slacker-dom, and the Eels made preoccupation with, as ...

“Souljacker,” the new album from L.A.’s Eels, is quickly drawing the best reviews of the group’s illustrious--if commercially underachieving--career. And it’s not just the hometown daily paper that ...

This bluesy wallop of an album is filled with songs about grotesques, but there’s no danger of its turning into a rock-opera Winesburg, Ohio. That’s because front man E (Mark Oliver Everett) chooses ...