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News: Eels Share New Festive Single And Announce Compilation Album ‘EELS So Good: Essential EELS, Vol.2’

Critically acclaimed rock group EELS release their brand new Christmas track, “Christmas, Why You Gotta Do Me Like This”, out now via E Works/[PIAS]. An alternative yuletide ballad with a traditionally morose, EELS twist,…

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Gallery & Set-lists: EELS / The Inspector Cluzo – 3Olympia, Dublin 31.03.2023

American rock band EELS brought their Lockdown Hurricane 2023 tour to Dublin’s 3Olympia with a massive 27 song set-list, bring up the support slot were French rock blues guitar/ drums…

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SEE: Eels drop surprise new cut, ‘Baby Let’s Make It Real’

FULL of surprises, Mark Everitt’s Eels have just dropped an unexpected new single entitled “Baby Let’s Make It Real”, the result of recent sessions at the band’s studio in Los…

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Not Forgotten: Eels – Electro-Shock Blues

Electro-Shock Blues might very well be one of the bravest albums ever released. Although Mark Oliver Everett (a.k.a E) had released a couple of solo albums prior to Eels’ debut,…

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Feature: double albums that are actually worth the time.

For some artists the single disc statement is not enough. It should be though, as the multiple disc release is a difficult beast to master and many of the most…

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From an old record box: Eels – Souljacker Part 1

Today’s offering is Dreamworks Records 450 893-7, the September 2001 (picture disc) release that featured a bearded E cuddling a pooch. For me, a title like ‘Souljacker Part 1’ should…

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New Music: Melanie De Biasio – I feel you (Eels Remix)

Taking Mark Hollis as inspiration is one thing, producing an album of the quality of No Deal is quite another, wearing its jazz influences proudly on its sleeve, stripped back…

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Album Review: Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett

Released just over twelve months after the well-received Wonderful, Glorious, Eels’ latest offering has one of those album titles that gives fair-warning about what exactly to expect from its content.…

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A Buyers Guide to Eels

Eels are a band that too many people viewed as post-grunge alt-rock oddities as they rose to prominence in the late 90s. This wasn’t help by such stunts as appearing…

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NOT FORGOTTEN – EELS – HOMBRE LOBO: 12 SONGS OF DESIRE

Lust, desire and romance have been the most popular subject matter for songs for millennia now – it’s pretty much what keeps the whole music industry going regardless of genre,…

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