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February 2, 2004

Urge Overkill Reenter

Chicago rockers reunite for tour
May 20, 1999

Former Urge Overkill Members Begin Phase Two

Former Urge Overkill Members Begin Phase Two
May 19, 1999

Urge Overkill's Ed Roeser and Nash Kato Begin Phase Two

Former UO members work on new material in their Chicago hometown

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Exit The Dragon

The distinguished gentlemen of Urge Overkill are rock stars. If you don't believe it, just ask them. They've been shouting it from the rooftops ever since they released Jesus Urge Superstar, their first full-length LP, in 1989. Six years later, they're issuing their fifth long-playing declaration of...

1995 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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1993

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Biography

Urge Overkill initially trafficked in smirks and sarcasm, with matching suits, shades, and swinging U.O. medallions that made the Chicago trio the flannel decade's answer to the Rat Pack. Jesus Urge Superstar and Americruiser, produced by indie-rock icons Steve Albini and Butch Vig, respectively, are pretty impenetrable, if not downright unlistenable mélanges of kitsch-culture posturing and...

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