On October 8, 2011, Urge Overkill opened for Weezer at the Red Bull Riot Fest at the historic Congress Theater in Chicago. A subsequent tour followed the release of the album. The band released Rock & Roll Submarine, their first studio album in 16 years, in May 2011. Live shows began happening, including being the musical guest at a " Roast of Quentin Tarantino" on December 1, 2010. Russo also announced an Urge Overkill show on October 4, 2010, at Mercury Lounge in New York.
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On September 19, 2010, on the free form radio program Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WRXP-FM in New York, the first new Urge Overkill song in 15 years was played. The reformed Urge Overkill performed shows at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, Double Door in Chicago, First Avenue in Minneapolis and the Bowery Ballroom in New York and continued to tour through Europe, North America, and Australia. In 2004, Kato and Roeser reformed Urge Overkill without Onassis, recruiting former Gaza Strippers guitarist Mike "Hadji" Hodgkiss to play bass, keyboardist Chris Frantisak, and drummer Nate Arling. Six of the album's 13 songs were co-written with Onassis. Now a duo consisting of Kato and Onassis, Urge Overkill moved to Sony's 550 Music in early 1997.Īfter a break of several years, Kato released a solo album in 2000 called Debutante. and with his brother John in the band Electric Airlines. Roeser went on to perform with Jim Kimball (formerly of The Jesus Lizard) as L.I.M.E. Kato and Roeser started feuding, resulting in Roeser leaving the band. Urge Overkill retained their sound for their next album, Exit the Dragon, released in 1995.
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When the movie became a hit, the song made it to number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. As the band recorded a follow-up album, cult filmmaker Quentin Tarantino used the group's cover version of the Neil Diamond song, "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon", in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
In 1993, the band contributed the track "Take a Walk" to the AIDS relief benefit album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization. The single "Sister Havana" finally gave the band a hit record and broad recognition. Despite some criticism for the label switch, Urge Overkill's major-label debut, Saturation, received strong reviews upon release in 1993, and to support the album, they opened for Pearl Jam on their Vs. Having a strong following by this time, they jumped from their indie label, Touch & Go, to a major label, Geffen Records. Produced by Butch Vig, Americruiser was widely praised, and scored a college radio hit with the lead single, "Ticket to L.A." Watt returned to Baron Lesh and was replaced by Blackie Onassis (real name: John Rowan) on the next album The Supersonic Storybook, which was named by Material Issue's Jim Ellison was released in 1991.Īfter opening for Nirvana on the American Nevermind tour, Urge Overkill returned to the studio to record another EP, Stull, in 1992 which featured the tracks, "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" (produced and mixed by Kramer) and "Goodbye to Guyville". Jack "Jaguar" Watt (of the band Baron Lesh) was the new drummer and their sound from then on has been described as a "Stonesy fusion of arena rock and punk". Their next effort, Americruiser, saw a drastic change in style. A full-length album, Jesus Urge Superstar, soon followed, again produced by Albini, and with Kriss Bataille taking over the drums. The EP was recorded by Kato's friend, Steve Albini. They formed Urge Overkill (getting the name from a phrase in the lyrics of the Parliament song " Funkentelechy") in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1986, with drummer Pat Byrne, and released an EP, Strange, I., on Ruthless Records. 1st press Vinyl 1985 ! (NOTICE : Originally, this edition doesn't include any inner but i have one inner WITH LYRICS from another version, so i can included).Kato and Roeser met at Northwestern University in 1985. Item: 284449603102 OVERKILL - Feel the Fire, 1st press Vinyl, LP 1985 (Noise International N 0035).
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