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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives will air on NOVA (PBS) Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 8pm ET/PT. For most of Mark Oliver Everett’s life, things didn’t add up. Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives follows Mark, better known as E, the lead singer of the band the EELS, across the country …

Last Sunday (March 23), I went to the New Theatre in Oxford for the Eels show. Before moving to England I didn’t know much about the Eels - even though the founder of Eels, Mark Oliver Everett, AKA E, is originally from Virginia and now LA. Here in England though, the handful of musicians that [...]

In addition to a Royal Television Society award nomination, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, the acclaimed BBC documentary about Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett …

Mark Oliver Everett from the Eels has written a letter to Her Majesty The Queen, inviting her to one of his gigs - I mean - shows (somehow ‘gig’ seems inappropriate under these circumstances) at the Royal Festival Hall …

It’s been a slow start this morning, after staying up until well past three in the morning here in England, watching the Patriots lose the Super Bowl. Boooo. I was so disappointed with the loss, I wondered why I bothered to stay up at all. Now I’m paying for it today. Not only that - [...]

Eels plan to make the shortest Super Bowl TV ad break ever! If it goes ahead, I believe that the proposed one second advert for Eels’ new ‘Useless Trinkets’ album will be the shortest ever TV ad used during the Super Bowl …

The Eels have announced more dates in the UK and Ireland on the back end of their European tour, which will come around to the UK again in mid-March 2008. This announcement comes two weeks before the January 21st 2008 release of the Best of Eels rarities …

On 17 January 2008 the book Things The Grandchildren Should Know is released in the UK. That evening the author, Eels leader Mark Oliver Everett, who appeared in the BBC documentary Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, will make a special appearance …

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives follows the lead singer of US rock band Eels, Mark Everett, on his journey of discovery across America to learn about the father he never knew, Hugh Everett III, the quantum mechanic. The BBC Four one hour documentary …

The ever-changing lineup of musicians that play the songs of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E), unveils both its first “best of” compilation, ‘Meet The EELS: Essential EELS Vol. 1, 1996-2006 (CD+DVD)’, and its first collection of rarities, B-sides, film contributions and unreleased tracks, the EELS Useless Trinkets …