Beautiful Freak

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Ringo Starr asked the EELS to join him to sing The Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends" on stage at the Norwegian Wood Festival in Oslo, Norway Saturday night. The performance marked the first collaboration between the EELS, a Beatle, Edgar Winter, and Little Steven. For more information on Ringo Starr go HERE.

EELS barnstorming performance at the Glastonbury Festival this weekend is being heralded as one of the top highlights of the festival. The Telegraph calls the EELS appearance "a witty, energetic and musically stunning set" in their list of top 10 highlights, while The Independent says it was "a soulful, funny, crowd-winning show" in their list of top 5 highlights. See all the EELS 2011 tour dates HERE.If you told that 10-year-old boy sitting at his piano writing a song about the girl he had a crush on that he’d still be doing it all these years later what do you think he would have said? Flower - Yea, I love this song. This song first got me into The Eels. "Flower" loops a choir of nuns over a sparse mandolin riff, the song blossoming into a tough tale of emotional recovery. The drumming by Butch is unique and creative. And E's mandolin playing is simple, but effective. This song is supposed to be about E's ailing sister, who died shortly after the release of this album. A very depressing song :upset: 5/5 There are few albums that mean as much to me as Beautiful Freak. Through most of my teenage struggles, this record has been there and spent warmth and comfort, despite its melancholic nature.

EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E recently spoke to Esquire about punctuality, cocaine, John Lennon, Jim Carrey and more. Read it HERE. What's that nice song playing at the end of the great James Gandolfini's last starring film, ENOUGH SAID? It's "I Like The Way This Is Going" from the EELS TOMORROW MORNING album. The film, which The New York Times calls "a small miracle of a movie," opens today in North America. "I Like The Way This Is Going" by EELS is available HERE.

At what point did you accept that you had enough songs and were ready to make an album out of them?

Guest List - "Guest List" includes an interesting harmonica solo, played by E, that suits the song well. It is a relatively sad song, as E's throaty voice sings "are you one of the beautiful people, is my name on the list, wanna be of the beautiful people, wanna feel like i'm missed." But overall the song sort of leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. 3.5/5 So, not a song about a poor girl, but a song of hope and how you can rise up no matter how far down you started. Listen to Terry Gross's in-depth interview with EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett aka E on NPR's Fresh Air HERE. Well, I was always quite happy to roll with it. I would often get home from a tour and start the next album the next day but then it got to a point where if you do any one thing too much in your life it will catch up with you. It finally caught up with me after the last album, The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett. After that I just really had to take a break, that’s why I didn’t put anything out for four years. It was just too many years of really intense focus and work and nothing else. So I had to give it a break.” The April issue of Q magazine has an article about the making of the upcoming EELS album THE CAUTIONARY TALES OF MARK OLIVER EVERETT (out April 22), calling the album "a genuine tear-jerker." On newsstands now.Well, whatever gets you good results in the end you know. It doesn’t really matter how they go about it as long as everybody likes how it ends up.” Stereogum is premiering the brand new video for "Peach Blossom" from the upcoming WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS EELS album (out Feb. 5). See it right now, right HERE.

E tells the story of how his dog Bobby, Jr. and Leonard Cohen became pals in The Big Issue. Read it HERE.NME is featuring a video of EELS leader E teaching his favorite guitar moves to an air guitarist who opened the EELS sold out show at the legendary Brixton Academy in London March 21st. Watch it HERE. E made a surprise appearance at Angele's four Accor Arena shows in Paris this week. Angele has been performing EELS' "That Look You Give That Guy" recently. See them singing it together Stream "New Alphabet" from the upcoming WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS EELS album (out Feb. 5) at Spinner right now, right HERE. You can hear "Amateur Hour" from the upcoming EELS album due January 28th, 2022 right now, right HERE. If you missed EELS performing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night you can watch it online HERE.