Making Lemonade from Death, Divorce, and Despair with Mark Oliver Everett of Eels

by Sean NelsonThe Eels play this Sat., June 2 at the Showbox. Donut miss out!
Mark Oliver Everett has been making music as Eels (definite article usually deleted, but kind of in the same way it's supposed to be in "Eagles," at least according to the late Glenn Frey, which is to say seldom, but that's where the similarities between the two groups end) since Beautiful Freak in 1996. Though that album spawned the medium-sized alternative radio/MTV hit "Novocaine for the Soul," Everett is almost cer