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Eels have announced that it’s Eels Time! The new album is out June 7th via E Works/Play It Again Sam, and you can hear the contemplative acoustic lead single, “Time,” now. Stream it below.

Eels Time! features 12 all-new tracks, and was helmed by principal singer-songwriter Mark Oliver Everett, who collaborated with artists like Koool G Murder, The Chet, Tyson Ritter, Sean Coleman, and more.

Pre-orders are ongoing. Check out the artwork and full tracklist below.

The opening single, “Time,” is a gentle retrospective on life and meaning. The track was recorded at the band’s first in-person session post-pandemic, according to a press release. “Time/ There was nothing but time then,” Everett sings — sharing that familiar ennui many felt during the height of pandemic lockdowns.

Marking the 15th studio album from the veteran indie rockers, Eels Time! follows 2022’s Extreme Witchcraft and 2020’s Earth to Dora.

Eels Time!

Eels superfan Jon Hamm stars in the band’s new video for “Are We Alright Again,” “the feel-good hit of the feel-worst year” off their latest LP Earth to Dora.

In the video, “a typical Eels fan finds solace in Eels music,” the band says. The “typical” fan, in this case, is the Mad Men actor, who puts on headphones to listen to the track, becoming so absorbed by the music that he’s oblivious to the chaos happening behind him: Home invasion, the theft of all his possessions, and...

Steve Perry has kept a low public profile ever since he shared a lockdown rendition of the 1963 Beach Boys classic “In My Room” in April, but he tells Rolling Stone that since that time, he’s been busy creating new music. “I have a studio and I’m always writing and always recording stuff,” he says. “I have lots of music, so much stuff.”

First up is an acoustic version of his 2018 comeback LP Traces that he plans to release on December 4th. “It’s eight songs from the Traces...

Independence Day Resurgence

A new piece of concept art from the upcoming "Independence Day" sequel has gone online. The art shows the military piloting an alien craft through what was once a city. Roland Emmerich returns to helm the follow-up to the 1996 alien invasion tale which is currently filming ahead of a release next summer. [Source: Empire]

Everest

The general release of Baltasar Kormakur's climbing disaster tale "Everest" has been pushed back by a week from September 18th to September 25th. The move has been designed to give an extra push to the movies IMAX run which will still continue on the 18th and have a one week exclusive run in the premium large-format.

Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, John Hawkes Michael Kelly and Sam Worthington star in the film about the 1996 disaster that left climbers stranded high atop the world's highest mountain. [Source: THR]

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"Every once in awhile, our band somehow gets tied into world events, like when George Bush's campaign was quoting my lyrics to fight Al Gore," says Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, the leader of the cult band Eels. "But I've never experienced anything like The Jinx — my jaw literally dropped." E's 2009 tune "Fresh Blood" provides the menacing theme song for Andrew Jarecki's smash HBO documentary The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. The final, blockbuster episode aired on Sunday, in which Durst said, "What the hell have I done? Killed them all, of course." Durst,

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Steve Perry, former Journey frontman, performed onstage for the first time in almost 20 years on Saturday night.

Steve Perry Performs With The Eels

Perry surprised fans when he appeared unannounced at the Eels concert at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Perry took over from the Eels during their second encore and performed two Journey classics, “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” and “Open Arms,” as well as the Eels’ song “It’s a Motherf—ker.”

“The interesting thing about this guy, is he hasn’t sung his songs for some 20, 25 years… He walked away from it. Because it didn’t feel right, you have to respect that.… And for some reason only known to him, he feels like tonight in St. Paul, Minnesota, it feels right. Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Perry,” said Eels frontman Mark Everett in his introduction.

This was Perry’s first time performing in front of a crowd...

Kimye wasn't the only one who had a weekend to remember… Former Journey frontman Steve Perry made history over Memorial Day weekend when he performed live for the first time in almost 20 years. The surprise appearance occurred during an Eels concert in St. Paul on Sunday evening just before the second encore. Mark Everett, the singer and main man of Eels, announced that Perry would be joining him onstage for an impromptu performance and mentioned just how long it had been since Perry had sung live for a crowd. "The interesting thing about this guy is that he hasn't sung his songs for twenty something years," Everett said. "He walked away from it because it didn't feel...

Ex-Journey frontman Steve Perry's return to the stage was welcomed with open arms. The near-reclusive singer, who hasn't performed live in almost 20 years after getting "burned out" on performing with Journey following a hip injury in 1998, made a guest appearance with indie rockers Eels in St. Paul, Minnesota, singing two Journey songs and one Eels cut. Perry hasn't performed with Journey since 1991, and the last time he was onstage was in 1995, in support of his second solo album, "For the Love of Strange Medicine. In surprise encore, frmr Journey-er Steve Perry joins @the_Eels in St. Paul: http://t.

10 Albums You Should Be Listening To In 2013 D'Angelo, you're on notice. by Alex Heigl Last year, writing this piece, I said I'd "gladly die in the Mayan apocalypse if I finally get to hear D'Angelo's follow-up to Voodoo." Then he went and denied me the option. (Though to be fair, so did the Mayans.) So I'm not including D in this year's list, even if he's supposedly closer to making James River a reality than ever before. But there's plenty to get excited about, so let's dive in, shall we? 1. Eels, Wonderful Glorious (February 5) One of my favorite dour indie-rockers, Mark Everett has been been off the scene since 2010, when Eels released Tomorrow Morning. But last month he dropped the first track from Wonderful Glorious, "New Alphabet," which starts with the very un-Eels like opening [...]...

Eels frontman E performed a track in upcoming Judd Apatow movie This Is 40, but the scene was cut from the film. The singer-songwriter, real name Mark Oliver Everett, performed 'What I Have to Offer', originally from 2010 album Tomorrow Morning, in the scene, before letting Paul Rudd's Pete know that he's leaving his label. This is 40 is a spinoff sequel to 2007 hit comedy Knocked Up centred around Rudd's (more)...

So, um, yeah… I still haven't seen This Is 40. Probably won't, to be honest. Though, I must say, I'm more than a little intrigued by all the musical cameos Judd Apatow left on the cutting room floor. I mean, he's always struck me as the sort of director who writes with the DVD deleted scenes section in mind, but this really takes the cake.

Previously… Listen Up: Eels – "Calling For Your Love"

In another unused clip that surfaced online today, Eels' Mark Oliver Everett pops by the offices of Paul Rudd's indie record label stooge to perform a gorgeous rendition of "What I Have To Offer"… and then announce he's hopping over to Warner Bros. Records. Why Everett thinks it's one of the best songs he's ever written (it isn't) or why he insists on talking in third person is beyond me. It's not quite Billie Joe Armstrong...

Even though the theatrical cut runs well over two hours, it seems that, as usual, a lot of material has been left on the cutting room floor from Judd Apatow's "This Is 40." And with the story (partially) centering on the floundering business of Paul Rudd's character's record label, it would appear that at one time there was a lot more focus on the artists he was representing or looking to sign. In case you're playing catch up, "This Is 40" takes Pete and Debbie from "Knocked Up" and spins them off into their own film that follows their trials and tribulations as they approach the big four-oh. Among them, Pete heads into financial ruin as he tries to relaunch '70s rocker Graham Parker. In a previous deleted scene, we saw Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day pitch a side project, and now we get to see Mark Everett...

Manuel Benitez went by the stage name Mark Everett when he was a successful child actor. He starred in several TV shows, commercials and movies, including "Stand and Deliver." "Final Cut" told the story of his dark journey after stardom.

In the 1990s, Benitez had a 3-year-old son with his girlfriend. When she told him she wanted to break up with him, he allegedly beat her to death in front of their child, and then went on the run with the boy.

He stayed on the run for four years, and even made the FBI's wanted list. Inevitably, the authorities caught up with him.

"As soon as he opened the door, that's when they felt they had no choice but to fire," an investigator said. Benitez had taken his son hostage during that final confrontation. His son was shot in the leg, but survived. Benitez died from multiple gunshots.

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Manuel Benitez went by the stage name Mark Everett when he was a successful child actor. He starred in several TV shows, commercials and movies, including "Stand and Deliver." "Final Cut" told the story of his dark journey after stardom.

In the 1990s, Benitez had a 3-year-old son with his girlfriend. When she told him she wanted to break up with him, he allegedly beat her to death in front of their child, and then went on the run with the boy.

He successfully stayed on the run for four years, and even made the FBI's wanted list. Inevitably, the authorities caught up with him.

"As soon as he opened the door, that’s when they felt they had no choice but to fire," an investigator said. Benitez had taken his son hostage during that final confrontation. His son was shot in the leg, but survived. Benitez died from multiple gunshots.

Happy Grammy Nominations day! Eels aren't really up for any awards, but the frontman wanted to thank the Recording Academy anyway, y'know, for all those awards they gave him. Mark Oliver Everett allows his sarcasm to shine in all its glory in a newly posted video, as though it were his own album. He awards himself various honors like "best female slow jam," "best good hair day," for commercial flops and "catalog number." He is phoning in his acceptance speeches because he's detained at previously scheduled events, like those at the "Sydney Rock Opera House." It's all good stuff, give the...

After the unfortunate passing of Seattle Grace’s longtime lothario Mark “McSteamy” Sloan in September, Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes reflected on the character in an obituary penned for Entertainment Weekly. For more stories behind this year’s top TV and movie moments, click here for EW.com’s Best of 2012: Behind the Scenes coverage.

By: Shonda Rhimes

A doctor shows up at Seattle Grace Hospital. He beds all the women. He sutures his own face. He wears a towel better than anyone can wear a towel in the history of wearing towels on television.

We call him McSteamy.

Leave it to "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes to include the words "hot naked guy in a towel" in an obituary. Okay, so the obit is for a fictional character -- but still, a man's McSteaminess is generally left out of his eulogy. Unless that man is played by Eric Dane.

In the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, Rhimes offers fans another chance to grieve Mark Sloan, one of our favorite "Grey's Anatomy" characters who met his maker in last week's season premiere.

We've learned that ABC demanded budget cuts on the long-running medical primetime soap, and Sloan fell victim to those cuts. Rhimes has admitted that axing Mark was one of the hardest decisions she's ever had to make as a writer. She tells us that she even considered not killing him off, and instead having him run off into the sunset with former love and "Private Practice" lead...

We bid farewell to the incomparable Dr. Mark Sloan in our Grey's Anatomy Round Table this week. Now show creator Shonda Rhimes has penned her own eulogy for the character, one of her all-time favorites.

In tonight’s new episode, “Remember the Time,” Eric Dane's character will grace our screens one final time as Shonda reveals to us how Sloan went from alive in the Season 8 finale to being on life support last week.

Mark's death (below) will go down as one of the most tear-filled Grey's moments in eight-plus seasons.

Rhimes full obituary for Sloan appears in EW's new issue, but this excerpt has been posted online:

Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Premiere Clip - Mark Sloan Dies

Last week, Mark Sloan succumbed to injuries sustained in the plane crash that took the life of fellow surgeon Alexandra Caroline Grey. By the time he died, he was no longer just...

Last Thursday was a mournful television evening because it’s when Mark Sloan, a.k.a. McSteamy, was pulled off life support and died during the dramatic season 9 premiere of Grey’s Anatomy. In tonight’s new episode, “Remember the Time,” viewers will learn how Sloan went from alive in last May’s season finale to dead just a week ago.

As a eulogy to the late McSteamy — and an exclusive to EW — Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes penned an obituary for Sloan, who she calls “one of my all-time favorite characters to write.” (Rhimes is pictured here with Eric Dane,...

Mark Oliver Everett, better known as the driving force of the band Eels, is nothing if not ambitious. After releasing a trilogy of albums in 2009-2010 ("Hombre Lobo", "End Times", and "Tomorrow Morning" for those keeping track), he has just announced a world tour that leaves no far-flung corner untrodden. Fans from China to Toronto to Austin will be able to watch live as Eels performs their uniquely darkly beautiful songs that are evocative of Tom Waits, Mark Kozelek, and Elliott Smith. The tour kicks off June 1st in California and then heads to the Far East with shows in Beijing and Shanghai. Next stop is Europe with Eels' first appearance at the Glastonbury Festival. Then they kick off their North American tour with dates spanning from sea to shining sea. While a tour is gift enough for the devoted Eels fans across the globe, in the words of the...

The Tangled soundtrack. Quantifying Disney animation soundtracks is a tough thing to do – like an earnest uncle trying his inept best to connect with the kids at a family get together, they simply can’t be judged by regular standards. They are enshrined by their intention, by their innocence, by the fairytale majesty they aspire to. By any regular standard, Elton John singing Can You Feel The Love Tonight is simply not a reason to be cheerful. But the addition of cute animated lions, a role in a satisfying family friendly narrative, and the historical connotations of Disney grant such slushy ballads a kind of glistening eternal youth quality. We sing along because they make us happy, and our happiness is as if from childhood, and all is right with the world. Cynicism has little role to play in such contexts.

The thing is, ten year olds don’t have a lot of disposable income,...

Musically, there’s nothing groundbreaking about Tomorrow Morning, Eels’ ninth studio album. Longtime fans will recognize bits and pieces from across the career of frontman/songwriter/shaman Mark Oliver Everett: affected drum-and-electric piano stomp, winsome folk, the static of an old transistor radio. What they might not recognize, at least at first, is optimism. It’s especially welcome after years of songs that plunged listeners into depression, culminating in last year’s End Times. That album, with tracks like “Unhinged” and “I Need A Mother,” proved as excruciating as the titles suggest, and ended up blurring into a giant bummer ...

A Conversation with eels' Mark Oliver Everett (E) Mike Ragogna: What have you been up to since Hombre Lobo? Mark Oliver Everett: It's funny, we last spoke before Hombre Lobo came out, and that was only last April or May. That's weird to me because it seems like it must have been five years ago. Mr: Yeah, it seems like a long time. Moe: I've been so busy. The fun thing about my life is that I immerse myself every year or so into a new musical world, and this time, I expedited how many times I was going to do that in a much shorter period of time. So, last year feels like several years to me. Mr: It should because you have had three albums in what, a little over a year? Moe: Yeah, that's right. Mr: End Times...

Mark Everett, aka E, doesn't do sunny. The songwriter has proven himself capable of writing some of the most delightfully dour, horribly honest songs, most recently laying his tunes bare in last set "End Times" (January 2010) and the consumptive urgency from "Hombre Lobo" (2008). That's why I find it impossible to partake in the manic, un-e musicquake that is "Looking Up" without tasting that grain of salt. It's structured as a gospel tune, with tambourine and a choir (of himself), but with E singing in what sounds like a microphone from one of those Fisher Price cassette tape players. Lyrically,...

Mark Oliver Everett, Eels’ core member, knows about heartbreak and loss: The second Eels disc, Electro-Shock Blues, sidestepped the sophomore slump by wringing knee-weakening songs out of his sister’s suicide, his mother’s death, and his attempts to come to terms with being the sole survivor of his family. End Times, Eels’ eighth studio album, deals with a different loss: It documents the fallout of his divorce. Unfortunately, End Times comes off as impersonal and flat—which is shocking, considering that Everett has scaled back the studio gloss since 2005’s exceedingly ambitious double-album Blinking Lights And Other Revelations ...

In honor of the premiere of the final season of Lost, Prof. Doc Jensen looks at competing theories of time-travel in popular sci-fi franchises. Warning: this course may cause a migraine. Students are advised to take an aspirin before reading. (Getting stoned may also help, though this cannot be condoned by the faculty.) For more crash courses in pop culture, enroll in EW University. "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." With those famous words in Slaughterhouse Five (1969), author Kurt Vonnegut introduced one of the most memorable time travelers and depictions of time travel that literature has ever given us.

Warning! The following essay -- the last lecture in our EW University course on time travel stories -- may induce a migraine. Students are advised to take some aspirin before reading. Getting stoned may also help, though this cannot be encouraged or condoned by the faculty. “Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” With those famous words in Slaughterhouse Five (1969), author Kurt Vonnegut introduced one of the most memorable time travelers and depictions of time travel that literature has ever given us. The premise: Billy Pilgrim has gone crazy from failing to grapple with the horror he experienced during World War II many, many years before. Unmoored from sanity, the haunted optometrist convinces himself he’s been abducted by aliens who believe that time is eternally present, that past and future are happening in the now -- Cubism made real. Pilgrim -- his mind desperately flailing to save itself...

Mark Oliver Everett, ‘E’ to friends and fans of his band Eels is sitting at the Carnegie Club in midtown Manhattan—one of New York’s few remaining cigar bars—when our waitress offers to light his Romeo y Julieta Bully. “Watch the beard,” he says dryly while rotating his stogie above the flame of her lighter. Frankly, it’s impossible not to watch the beard, a squared-off hair curtain that, save for E’s mouth, obscures the lower third of his face and all of his neck and makes him look like the ‘lost’ fourth member of Zz Top or the dictator of a newly discovered banana republic. The beard is a bit of stagecraft, what E calls “a weird version of being a method actor, but in music.” He and his less curiously bearded drummer, Knuckles—E gives all of his band mates nicknames—have just come from Late Show with David Letterman,...

It took Mark Everett seven years to record 2005’s Blinking Lights And Other Revelations, so it’s understandable that the man might be drained. Throw in last year’s sobering memoir (Things The Grandchildren Should Know), his documentary about his quantum-physicist father (Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives), and a greatest-hits compilation and rarities album, and it’s no wonder that the new Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire sounds so tired. Sure, a back-to-basics vibe permeates the album, but it sounds more by-the-numbers than refreshed. Life’s unjust randomness and unrequited desire have always been major motifs in Eels’ music ...

Yes Man, Peyton Reed's new comedy starring Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel and Terence Stamp, gets an original score by Lyle Workman and Mark Everett. Workman's previous scoring credits include Superbad and The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Everett's songs has been heard in films such as Knocked Up and What Happens in Vegas. In Yes Man, Jim Carrey plays a guy who challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year. Film will premiere on December 19.