Urge Overkill

While Chicago alternative-rock band Urge Overkill has cultivated a loyal following of its own accord, it also likely owes a solid chunk of its mainstream success to Neil Diamond and Quentin Tarantino. As Uma Thurman snorted coke in her living room during Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, it was the group’s cover of Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” that played in the background and, subsequently, became an unexpected hit. When that failed to translate into any other commercial success for the rest of the band’s power-pop or bluesy lounge-rock tunes, Urge Overkill disbanded for nearly 10 years before a faltered reunion tour in 2004. Last year, the group released its first single in 15 years, “Effigy,” and appears here behind its new self-released full-length, Rock & Roll Submarine.

Updated 05/03/2011