Recorded over a span of six years, Eels’ first double album and sixth overall release Blinking Lights and Other Revelations serves as frontman and creative mastermind Mark Oliver “E” Everett’s magnum ...

Eels at the Fonda: The man known as E formed Eels way back in 1991, though the Beautiful Freak debut album and “Novocaine for the Soul” breakthrough single didn’t arrive until 1996 (recorded over two ...

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 ...

Between songs, Mark Oliver Everett repeatedly apologized for taking so long to return to Houston. After 14 years, he’d finally brought his band Eels to town, with guests The Submarines as openers.

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...