Lightning Bolt's fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights (Load, 10/13) opens like a riot with "Sound Guardians." It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the collection, so we asked drummer Brian Chippendale about it. You've heard "Colossus," now hear... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP CVIII: HEAR NEW LIGHTNING BOLT, WIN AN EELS BOX SET & POSTER»
Posted on September 30, 2009 in , (1 comments)
Tags: Courtney Love | Eels | Lightning Bolt
The video is fine: a subdued black and white thing about a dinner date, and also there is a pup in it. But do you kind of get the feeling that Padma Lakshmi doesn't say "no" a lot?... CONTINUE READING NEW EELS VIDEO - "THAT LOOK YOU GIVE THAT GUY"»
Posted on September 1, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: Eels | Padma Lakshmi | Pretty Good Dance Moves
Looking more and more like a werewolf himself, E performed three Hombre Lobo tunes as well as his take on that vagrant Bob Dylan's "Girl From The North Country" at MySpace's Transmissions. Download at MySpace.... CONTINUE READING EELS OFFER HOMBRE LOBO TRANSMISSIONS»
Posted on August 19, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Eels | of Montreal
Continuing with the werewolf theme of Hombre Lobo, which happens to mean werewolf, Eels bring some hirsute lycanthropy to the gorgeously shot video for "In My Dreams." E starred as a furry, howling stalker in the red-tinted clip for "Fresh... CONTINUE READING NEW EELS VIDEO - "IN MY DREAMS"»
Posted on July 7, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Eels
When we posted a link to the Eel's new single "Fresh Blood," we made sure to mention the name of the new album Hombre Lobo means "werewolf." Continuing directly along that dark, creepy, and hairy course, the Jesse Dylan-directed video... CONTINUE READING NEW EELS VIDEO - "FRESH BLOOD" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on April 29, 2009 in (21 comments)
Tags: Eels
E's back. His new album title means "werewolf." His new song is called "Fresh Blood." He howls on it. Listen up at Spinner. Hombre Lobro is out 6/2 via Vagrant. ... CONTINUE READING NEW EELS - "FRESH BLOOD"»
Posted on April 1, 2009 (6 comments)
Tags: Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeroes | Eels | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The new Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel film Yes Man features nine Eels songs, including the new track "Man Up," which is currently streaming at MySpace. On top of Eels -- E's other tracks are all previously released "classics" --... CONTINUE READING NEW EELS - "MAN UP"»
Posted on November 19, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Eels | Zooey Deschanel
Mark Oliver Everett's father was Hugh Everett, the physicist who pioneered the many-worlds theory before dying of a heart attack at 51. Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, airing tomorrow on PBS, is a documentary focusing on Hugh, "so devastated by the... CONTINUE READING EELS' E ON THE PBS DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIS FATHER»
Posted on October 20, 2008 (3 comments)
Tags: Eels
Eels Dropped by last week with one of their useful trinkets from Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Rarities, Soundtracks And Unreleased, one of two releases for E's band in '08 (the other being Meet The Eels, a best-of). It's over a decade... CONTINUE READING E FROM EELS TALKS ABOUT TEN YEARS OF HIS HARD WORK, THAT'S ALL»
Posted on February 4, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Eels | Primal Scream
The Eels showed up as this week's 'Gum Drop with "I Want To Project You," a previously unreleased tune from Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities And Unreleased. Useless? No way. On top of it being a catchy little gem, main... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP VOLUME XXI: HEAR NEW EELS, WIN A SKATEBOARD AND SERJ TANKIAN SWAG»
Posted on January 23, 2008 in (0 comments)
Tags: Eels | Serj Tankian | System Of A Down
