Doesn’t anyone else find this creepy? Cool, but creepy?
Creepy
November 14, 2009 by Mike“Little Bird” Premiere
November 11, 2009 by MikeSpinner.com has “Little Bird”, a track from the Eels’ upcoming End Times, available for streaming. I’m not going to listen–opting instead to hear the entire album fresh out of the box in January, so to speak–but you can listen here and then go to Estranged Friends to tell me how awesome it is.
“End Times” Track Listing & Cover
October 20, 2009 by Mike
The Official Website has posted the track listing and cover for End Times: Read the rest of this entry »
“The Divorce Album”
October 20, 2009 by MikePaul Cashmere of underground.com.au reports the following about the Eels’ upcoming End Times:
Eels will follow-up this year`s `Hombre Lobo` with next year`s `End Times` in January.
‘End Times’ will take E from Eels back to reality after the fictional character ‘Hombre Lobo’ was based on. E calls the next album “the divorce album”.
‘End Times’ could be a bookend with E’s last break-up album ‘Broken Toy Shop’ from 1993.
‘Hombre Lobo’ came four years after its previous album so E says he does not want to waste any time this time. “I felt guilty about the long gap between the last two albums so I’m making up for lost time,” he says.
In the four year gap he wrote the book “Things My Grandchildren Should Know’ and worked on the documentary ‘Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives’ about himself and his physicist father Hugh Everett III.
Now its “back to my real job: making music full time,” he says.
Sounds very exciting, in a “hope you like being sad” way. And I mean that in the best way possible, believe it or not!
Review: “Bad Dude In Love”
October 14, 2009 by Mike
I’m shamelessly trying to drum up more traffic to this blog. And for some reason, hearing about End Times got all these songs stuck in my head, so… Read the rest of this entry »
Eels Tribute No. 3
October 14, 2009 by MikeAnyone interested in contributing to the third Eels tribute album should visit rockingeels.com for details. There’s a forum dedicated to such projects on Estranged Friends too.
Read up on and download the previous Eels tribute, 2006’s We’re Going to Stop Pretending That We Didn’t Break Your Songs, here.
But What About The Beard?
October 14, 2009 by Mike
So if End Times is going to be stripped down, what does this mean for E’s legendary beard? Read the rest of this entry »
“End Times” New Album
October 14, 2009 by MikeGigwise.com and strangeglue.com have announced that the “end times” we’ve been all a-twitter about the last couple of weeks is indeed a new album.
Set for release on January 19, 2010, NME.com reports that End Times will be a 14-track album of “largely self-recorded”, stripped down songs E’s done all by his little old self.
NME compares the album to something like the 1975 Basement Tapes (recorded in 1967), a Bob Dylan album of mostly home recorded songs featuring the Band. Cool.
This is very nice to hear and also quite a relief. Rumors abounded that End Times might be a second MC Honky album.
And so now I must ask again: E, can we get a goddamn studio version of “Brave Little Soldier” already?
Seriously?
October 1, 2009 by MikeThe most bizarre celebrity gossip I’ve come across in a while: Lakshmi has a bun in the oven.
I guess the end times really are coming.
End Times Are Coming
October 1, 2009 by Mike
Eels fans found a subtle reminder of the all-consuming chaos that awaits those who aid in corrupting god’s wondrous creation in these idolatrous modern times.
Or at least we noticed a new front page on the Eels Official Website and we’re not sure what to make of it.
A new album? A live album? A tour–a good old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone revival?! Who’s to say. As of today, there’s about three and a half months left, if the counter is to be believed.
Visit Estranged Friends to speculate wildly and counter-productively.
