With the release of Saturation and prominent placement in Quentin Tarantino’s pop-culture flashpoint Pulp Fiction, Urge Overkill assumed the arena-rock throne only to find that most of the crowd had tossed on their flannels, lit a clove cigarette, and migrated to the dive bar next door. Nash and King have experienced success and creative devastation and messy breakups and reunions since forming Urge Overkill at Northwestern University in the mid-’80s.ĭuring 19, the band (the lineup then consisting of Roeser, Nash, and drummer Blackie Onassis) seemed poised for ascendance to rock royalty. Roeser doesn’t sound rock-weary so much as contemplative. He says they’re just being “less aggressive” about everything. They’ve been playing odd gigs when the opportunity arises and planning the release of a new album, their first since 2011’s Rock & Roll Submarine and only the second in the last 23 years. So, add the word that goes before “please.” It’s Oui.Eddie “King” Roeser and Nathan Kaatrud, aka Nash Kato, haven’t been proceeding at a regular pace, Roeser admits, but he’s not confessing a lack of relevancy or a disregard for the business of making music. Now, a decade later, Urge Overkill returns with Oui-twelve new tracks from Kato and Roeser, including eleven originals and an Urge-ified cover of Wham!’s “Freedom!” It’s the logical extension of everything everyone loves about Urge Overkill-killer riffs, memorable hooks, and the style and swagger of Nash Kato and King Roeser.
Two years later, Rock & Roll Submarine was released to great acclaim (garnering four stars from Mojo magazine.) Kato and Roeser reunited in 2010, playing a set at Tarantino’s Friar’s Club Roast, and sat on the podium alongside Samuel L. After 1995’s Exit The Dragon, Urge’s whirlwind first decade came to a close. The film and soundtrack became a massive hit, rocketing Urge into the public consciousness. While working on Saturation’s follow-up, Quentin Tarantino picked Stull’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” for inclusion in his upcoming film Pulp Fiction. Featuring radio hits like “Sister Havana” and “Positive Bleeding,” the band rock and rolled on. (Cypress Hill, Nine Inch Nails, Anthrax). Even as just an EP, it proved that Urge was ready for the big leagues, and they signed to Geffen Records later that year.ġ993 brought the world Saturation, produced by the Butcher Bros. Urge tapped Kramer (Bongwater, Butthole Surfers) to produce 1992’s Stull EP, which included a cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” and the original “Goodbye To Guyville”-whose title was adapted by Liz Phair for her acclaimed debut. tour, and Urge Overkill was playing arenas. At that point, Pearl Jam tapped them for their Vs. Touch And Go Records founder Cory Rusk championed the band as well, and Jesus Urge Superstar appeared on that classic Chicago label, once again helmed by Albini (while the band was housed in his basement.) Next came 1990’s Americruiser, this time produced by Butch Vig, featuring a sound and style that influenced fellow bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Nirvana, who would consequently use Vig on albums like Siamese Dream and Nevermind.ġ991’s The Supersonic Storybook (named by Material Issue’s Jim Ellison) brought Albini back to the production role, and Urge opened for Nirvana on American and European legs of Nirvana’s Nevermind tour.
Pulling their name from Parliament’s title track “Funkentelechy,” Urge Overkill was born in 1984, releasing their debut EP Strange I… on fellow Northwestern student Steve Albini’s Ruthless Records (with Albini in the production chair, as well). Roeser and Kato, two Minnesota native sons, met at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Urge Overkill is comprised of two unique voices.
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It’s full of their signature mix of rock, hooks, and fancy bling, which is exactly what a post-pandemic planet has needed for far too long. Oui is the new release from Nash Kato and King Roeser-their first in over a decade. When the world was asked if it was time for new music from Urge Overkill, it responded with one word- Oui. First new album from Urge Overkill in a decade.
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