Indie Rock Legends re-em-URGE! It is the 25th anniversary of the much loved hit album, Saturation, often heralded as one of the best albums of the ’90’s. This year Urge Overkill has a lot to celebrate. Their latest release, Rock & Roll Submarine, is also critically acclaimed, earning 4 stars from Mojo Magazine, and delighting hungry fans worldwide. Urge Overkill sports stylish outfits, sometimes are seen wearing matching medallions. Their heavy pop machine style earned them a popular following on indie label Touch and Go records. The SuperSonic Storybook and the Stull EP were both underground hits in the early ’90s. Urge Overkill is comprised of two unique voices — a double singer-songwriter attack — Eddie “King” Roeser and Nash Kato- two Minnesota native sons who met at Northwestern University, in Evanston, IL, and began the band in Chicago. Urge Overkill is a reference from a Parliament song. Steve Albini, a fellow Northwestern student, recorded their debut EP, Strange, I…on his own label, Ruthless Records. Corey Rusk, the founder of Touch and Go Records, championed the band as well, and the band’s first full length album, “Jesus Urge Superstar” was released on Touch and Go Records, with Steve Albini recording (and also housing the band in his basement). The Butch Vig-produced “Americruiser” (1990) featured a sound and sense of style that inspired Nirvana and the Smashing Pumpkins to follow suit and use Butch for their subsequent releases, “Nevermind” included. Urge Overkill has always explored a diversity of styles. 1991’s “The SuperSonic Storybook” had the band re-uniting again with Steve Albini in Chicago. Urge toured with Nirvana on the American and European “Nevermind” tour, and also hit the road extensively with Pearl Jam on the “Versus” tour, experiencing the 90’s in arena-style. Urge hired Kramer to produce the 1992 Stull EP, which featured both “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” and the song “Goodbye to Guyville,” a kiss-off to the Chicago indie rock scene; Liz Phair would later borrow the term for her acclaimed debut album, Exile in Guyville. Urge Overkill signed to Geffen Records in 1992- The band’s 1993 major-label debut, “Saturation”, was greeted with strong reviews upon its release. Produced by the Butcher Brothers (Cypress Hill), the album contained songs such as “Sister Havana” , “Positive Bleeding”, and “Back On Me”. As the band was preparing to record its follow-up to Saturation, Quentin Tarantino picked the group’s cover of “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” for the soundtrack to his unexpected hit Pulp Fiction. The song and soundtrack became a platinum-selling worldwide hit. Geffen Records 1995’s Exit the Dragon, currently hailed as an overlooked 90’s classic, followed “Saturation” and their world-wide acclaim. Enjoy everything Urge Style!