12/10/2002
THIS IS MC HONKY!:
Listen to the ENTIRE MC HONKY album 'I AM THE MESSIAH' right now! Check it out HERE Have a Honky day! You'll feel better.

11/23/2002
NO DIRECTION HOME:
Rolling Stone has a news item about what the EELS are up to at the moment. Pigs Blood Ballet? Tea With Hitler? Check it out HERE

11/16/2002
TRIUMPHANT RETURN:
E played a surprise set during Jon Brion's Nov. 15 Friday night show at Los Angeles club Largo. Songs played were Somebody Loves You, Good Old Days, Skywriting (from the upcoming film "Levity"), Daisies Of The Galaxy, and a Piano & Celeste version of Bus Stop Boxer with Jon Brion. During Jon Brion's set, E stepped on for Not Ready Yet as well.

11/4/2002
MC HONKY UK/EURO:
MC Honky's rocktastic I AM THE MESSIAH CD will be released Feb. 24 in the UK and Europe. The CD is released in Australia today! MC HONKY is the only artist fully endorsed by EELS and EELStheband.com, purely out of love for his artistry. For more info on MC HONKY and to hear a little of the Honky click HERE

10/3/2002
DEAR UNCLE E:
Check out the new column! Click HERE or on the DEAR UNCLE E graphic on the bottom right of the main page.

10/3/2002
WHAT'S GOING ON?:
Thanks for asking. Work on a new album is well under way. The album will be on the DreamWorks Record label, as per usual, and, with any luck, it will come out sometime in 2003. As always, we'll keep you posted of any developments.

10/2/2002
ANIMATED EELS:
MTV2 made 3 animated short films about EELS featuring E talking about life on the road and including live footage from the EELS Austin, TX show in March. Check out one of the films right HERE or watch 120 MINUTES on MTV2.

9/30/2002
DEAR UNCLE E:
Love trouble? Roommate pissing you off? Not sure what the capital of Venezuela is? Write a letter to your Dear Uncle E. That's right, Mr. EEL himself has offered to impart upon you, the faithful EELStheband.com visitor, some of the great wisdom he has learned on his life's rocky road . Submit your queries (with "Dear Uncle E" in the subject line) HERE and look for the debut of Dear Uncle E soon, right here on EELStheband.com.

9/11/2002
MINUS FIVE + E = ROCK:
E made a rare trip out of the house for his first live appearance in 5 months at last nights Wilco concert in Los Angeles, where he played a rollicking version of I LIKE BIRDS with the Minus Five, whose members include DAISIES OF THE GALAXY collaborator Peter Buck. Initial reports state that a good time was had by all.

9/5/2002
PARISH THE THOUGHT:
LOS ANGELES TIMES profiles SOULJACKER collaborator John Parish HERE

8/20/2002
SOULJACKER ON THE LONG LIST:
EELS' Souljacker has found itself on the Short List Prize's list of nominees for album of the year. The Short List Prize, designed to be the U.S. equivalent to the U.K.'s Mercury Prize, is voted on by a panel of hipster recording artists and producers. The winner will be announced Oct. 29th. For more info go here.

AND WHILE WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT of awards, E (Mr. Mark Oliver Everett, that is) won Best Songwriter at the L.A. Weekly Music Awards last month. We didn't mention it because he doesn't like to brag, and thinks trophies belong in the locker room. But since we're on the subject, he never let us tell you that EELS won for best band at the L.A. Weekly awards in 2000. We're risking our jobs by telling you this. In the end, who really cares? Still, know that EELS appreciate the support.

8/14/2002
WIN! TWO NEW CONTEST DRAWINGS:
1. Sign up on the EELStheband.com mailing list and you may win an autographed vinyl copy of the SOULJACKER album.

2. Register to use the EELStheband.com message board and win an autographed double blue 10" vinyl copy of the ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES album.

If you're already signed up on the mailing list and the message board, then you're already eligible to win! Stay tuned for updates.

8/9/2002
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW POSTER DRAWING WINNER:
EELS message board users unite and celebrate the fate of your comrade, Sabrina Harwell, also known as Beanerut, who has won the gigantic autographed French concert poster. Congatulations, Bean!

7/9/2002
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW IS HERE:
The new live CD release can be ordered now by clicking HERE. Check out excerpts from 7 of the albums tracks while you're there...

6/20/2002
BRAIN BLOWING:
Ever wonder who keeps E from blowing his brains out? Find out in a brand new interview in the new LA WEEKLY HERE.

6/20/2002
CLICK HERE FOR ROCK:
Hear a track from the about-to-be released ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW CD now! Think you've heard every possible arrangement of MY BELOVED MONSTER? What about this one? 96K MP3 | 160K MP3

6/20/2002
MR. SHOW!:
The best TV show you've never seen has to be HBO's MR. SHOW WITH BOB & DAVID. Check out the just released DVD of the complete first and second seasons. The first person to spot E in the studio audience and tells us which episode it is and what color his hair was wins an autographed U.S. SOULJACKER CD! DVD available at Amazon.com HERE.

6/10/2002
TEN MINUTES OLDER:
The film TEN MINUTES OLDER just had it's triumphant premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Eleven directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Luc Godard, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee and Wim Wenders have made ten minute films that make up the movie. Wim Wenders' contribution, "Twelve Miles To Trona" uses music from the new EELS album SOULJACKER as it's soundtrack. Check out the just updated TEN MINUTES OLDER website and see clips from the film HERE.

6/2/2002
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW CONCERT POSTER DRAWING:
Win a giant original French Electro-shock Blues Show concert poster, extremely rare, in beautiful purple and yellow. Autographed! The winner will be chosen at random from the membership list of the new EELS MESSAGE BOARD.

5/31/2002
ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW:
E Works is releasing ELECTRO-SHOCK BLUES SHOW, a live CD culled from the EELS 1998 world tour. The bulk of the album was recorded at one show in England (but no one is sure which show), and there are 5 bonus tracks from around the world. A beautiful chipboard digipak package with 8 page comic booklet to boot. Out July 8. The OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING CD will be discontinued when current stock is gone.

4/28/2002
AND THE WINNER IS:
Thanks to everyone for sending in your great EELS websites. Everyone here at EELStheband.com enjoyed each and every submission. The winner was chosen for sheer imaginative use of a website. Butch's hat, which he wore at virtually every EELS concert from 1997-2001 will be awarded to our friend Ben Hubble for his great site EELS IN VEGAS, an entire site dedicated to persuading the EELS to play a concert in Las Vegas. Did it have any sway in their decision to tape the Carson Daly show in Vegas last week? We can't say. Anyway, Congratulations! Wear Butch's hat with pride, but remember: with ownership of Butch's hat comes responsibility. Please wear Butch's hat responsibly. Check out the winning site HERE.

BUT THERE'S MORE: We here at EELStheband.com have decided to create a special website award, the EELS FANSITE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, which comes in the form of a set of SIX vinyl EELS singles. This award goes to Husky for his great work on his EELS site 3 Speed. Updated fairly regularly with lots of, sometimes, informative features, this is no fair-weather fansite! Sticking with EELS through thick and thin. Through rock and roll. Thanks, man. Please enjoy autographed vinyl copies of:

Susan's House/Stepmother
Your Lucky Day In Hell/Altar Boy
Last Stop: This Town/Funeral Parlor
Cancer For The Cure/Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
Mr. E's Beautiful Blues/Birdgirl On A Cellphone (picture disc)
Souljacker part I/I Write The B-Sides (picture disc)

And the rest of you, please keep sending us your EELS site addresses and we'll add them to our LINKS page. Check out the just updated LINKS page HERE.

4/13/2002
NOT EXACTLY LIKE A ROLLING STONE:
Rolling Stone has a brand new interview with Mr. E. Find out which religion really bugs him when they knock on his door, what rocks about rock, and what else toilet paper is good for. Check it out HERE

4/13/2002
COAST TO COAST:
Missed the EELS concert? Check out the story from either side of the U.S. of A. New York Times and Los Angeles Times weigh in HERE.

4/1/2002
IT'S A LATER WORLD THAN YOU THOUGHT:
EELS will be taping an appearance on VH1's new show "Late World With Zach" Monday, April 8th, airing the same evening. If you're in the Los Angeles area and want to attend the taping, go here for tickets.

3/19/2002
TIME HAS COME:
Time magazine calls EELS' SOULJACKER "the best album of the year so far." Los Angeles Times agrees. Maxim magazine hates it. What more do you need to know?..

3/12/2002
NEW LINKS PAGE:
EELStheband.com has a brand new links page, full of useful and not so useful EELS related links. And there's still time to win Butch's hat by showing us your very own EELS site. Big or small, informative or just plain cute, show us your site so we can add it to the new links page. Check it out HERE.

3/5/2002
MORNING BECOMES EEL-CLECTIC:
EELS will be the in-studio guest performing live and perhaps even chatting on the KCRW radio show Morning Becomes Eclectic, Thursday, March 14, at 11:15 a.m. Pacific Standard Time. If you're in Los Angeles tune into 89.9FM and if you're someplace far, far away, go HERE to hear a live webcast.

2/26/2002
L.A. IS MY LADY:
EELS Los Angeles show at the El Rey Theater, orginally scheduled for April 10th, has been moved to Sunday, April 7th. Please mark your calendars accordingly. See all the EELS tour dates HERE

2/25/2002
EELS FOR SALE: U.S. SOULJACKER DOUBLE CD EDITION AVAILABLE AT EELSDIRECT AND AMAZON.COM:
Amazon.com (U.S.) is now taking orders for the new U.S. double CD edition of the SOULJACKER album, which includes the previously unavailable track "Rotten World Blues." (price $16.99, ships March 12). Go here to order.
Or you can order it from the EELSDIRECT Online Store (price: $14.99 ships March 12).
Check out other CD's and brand new T-shirts at EELSDIRECT here
AMAZON also has some CD singles listed here

2/25/2002
EELS TRIVIA:
Rolling Stone.com has a page dedicated to an EELS trivia game. Some of it is hard, some of it isn't quite right. Surely you can do better! Check it out at Rollingstone.com.

2/25/2002
THERE IS HOPE:
SOULJACKER collaborator John Parish has new hope in his life, namely his new baby daughter Hope, born at 8.45 am, February 19th, weighing 7 lbs / 3.18 Kilos. It was reported that had the baby been a boy he would have been named "Baby E." In a statement made on the steps of DreamWorks Records International Headquarters EELS singer E said "I'm still calling her Baby E." For more John Parish info see his selected discography here.

2/20/2002
THE BLUES:
E recently performed Skip James' "Little Cow And Calf Is Gonna Die Blues" for Martin Scorsese's PBS documentary The Blues, a six part documentary to air in the fall of 2003. For more information on The Blues, check out the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar cover story here.

2/15/2002
BUS STILL DRIVING, BAND STILL ROCKING:
EELS hit the road for a U.S. tour, first stop: March 16, in Austin, Texas. John Parish is having a baby (well, his wife is, technically) so his pal Joe Gore (Tom Waits, PJ Harvey, etc.) will be joining the boys this time out. If you haven't seen Joe play guitar, you need to come see him rock the house. Check out the confirmed dates so far here. More to come.

2/12/2002
TEN MINUTES OLDER:
Making it's premiere at Cannes this March is the film Ten Minutes Older. Eleven directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean Luc Godard, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee and Wim Wenders have made ten minute films that make up the movie. Wim Wenders' contribution, "Twelve Miles To Trona" takes all of it's music from the EELS new album SOULJACKER. Visit www.tenminutesolder.com for more info.

1/17/2002
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL FREAK:
America sure has been getting some tough knocks lately. What a year. And to add insult to injury, the EELS' new album comes out several months after the rest of the world got it! Well, the EELS feel your pain (they are American, after all) and so the U.S. release of SOULJACKER will be a DOUBLE DISC SET. The album will have a bonus EP, like the British edition, but with a new song, ROTTEN WORLD BLUES, not released anywhere until now. The EP also includes I WRITE THE B-SIDES, JEHOVAH'S WITNESS and HIDDEN TRACK, a plainly visible track made up of titles fans sent in to EELStheband.com. In stores March 12.

1/15/2002
I LIKE BIRDS CASE SETTLED
Rondor Music and EELS front man Mark Oliver Everett ("E") have settled out of court. Last year Rondor authorized the use of E's song I LIKE BIRDS to be used in a Spanish television commercial for a giant shopping center ("I can't stand in line at the store," etc.) without E's permission. It is expressly written in E's contract with Rondor that his songs not be used in commercials. E learned about the commercial from Spanish journalists while on tour in Spain. The commercial was pulled from airing immediately, and at E's request, Rondor will donate all writer's & publishing proceeds to the Sweet Relief Musician's Fund for musician's in need of medical assistance.

Lance Freed, President of Rondor Music (and son of Alan Freed, the man credited with coining the term 'Rock & Roll') said, "We certainly respect the wishes of Mark Everett and have moved quickly to rectify the situation."

In the past month alone, E's songs have been requested for use in Coca Cola and McDonald's commercials.

"It's pretty Strange," says E. "I don't understand why these companies want these songs. Car companies always ask for 'Mr. E's Beautiful Blues' and the first verse is about pollution. It's official: no one is paying attention anymore. I think it's important to stay outside of all that, even if it's one of the only ways for people to find out about your music. Just because everyone does it now doesn't mean it's right."

1/14/2002
NEW PHOTOS JUST ADDED!
CLICK HERE to check out new photos just added to the Eelstheband.com photo gallery!