Eels

When the Eels debuted in the mid-Nineties, being a tortured artist in the slippery world of
alternative rock implied some level of ironic distance. God forbid that an alt-rocker directly
admit to having feelings -- at least not without a little wink-wink, nudge-nudge. Eels
frontman E does his share of winking, but his real-life tragedies -- within a two-year period,
he lost his sister to suicide and his mother to cancer -- have kept the singer and... More >