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When Mark Oliver Everett rasps, "Girl, I want it bad," he's not kidding. The seventh CD from the eternally overlooked Eels is a 42-minute paean to the pain of unrequited love.

Sonic Youth, "The Eternal" The first thing to know about the group's 21st album is that its songs aren't as tightly shaped as those on the last one, "Rather Ripped." That might not have anything to do with Sonic Youth's shift back to an independent label, Matador, after 16 years of recording for Geffen.

The band's first studio effort since 2005's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations , chucks the random genre-bouncing of its predecessor for a mostly focused rock affair as he settles in to methodically prod some very specific forms of desire and longing.

When he gleefully announced his return to the scene with the infectious 2002 single "Without Me," rapper Eminem turned his vitriol on electronica's Moby, condemning him as "too old" at 36, making a vulgar suggestion and ending the attack with a smug, "Nobody listens to techno!" Guess who's 36 now? And as the resurfacing Eminem looks toward his ...

Audio for today's show will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET. June 6, 2009 - His fans call him "Mr. E," "A Man Called E" or sometimes just "E." Whatever you call him, Mark Oliver Everett is the creative force behind the rock band Eels.

I'VE been feeling a bit guilty about Mr E ... or Mark Oliver Everett to give him his full name.

Mark "E" Everett of the LA-based Eels has been dealt more than his share of an unfair hand in life.

In this CD cover image released by Vagrant Records, the latest by Eels, "Hombre Lobo," is shown.

Another set of photos of Mark - E' Everett sporting an implausibly large beard, another new Eels album.

Eels frontman E is as hard to categorise as his music, but he's happy just being 'a dumb guy searching for answers'. By Sean Bell A MAN called E is telling me about the emotional landscape of a werewolf.

May 21, 2009 10:01 AM ET The Eels' E says his beard inspired the wolf-man style character that voices his songs on the group's new "Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs of Desire," which comes out June 2. "I had been working on some other music and was brushing my teeth one morning and looked in the mirror and saw this werewolf looking back at me," E tells ...

The last Eels album was Blinking Lights and Other Revelations in 2005. The new album, Hombre Lobo, set for June 2nd, 2009 on Vagrant Records, features 12 new songs recorded in EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, ...

Eels are breaking a four-year recording draught. The band's Hombre Loco is on track to arrive in stores June 2 from Vagrant Records.

What can you say about a scuzzy bunch of troublemakers, who used rock and roll as means of venting their seemingly endless frustration, boredom, and hatred upon an unsuspecting public? How about, "Cool, did ...

I may be one of the few people who came to the Eels through Hugh Everett III, father of principle Eel, Mark Oliver Everett, aka "E." Mark's father is the originator of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum ...

Ever heard of Munchausen By Proxy? Probably not, but if you have any desire to see Jim Carrey's next movie Yes Man then you'll learn about them quickly enough.