Urge Overkill: Rock&Roll Submarine

Nash Kato and Eddie “King” Roeser of Urge Overkill nearly pulled off a neat trick in the early ’90s, presenting themselves as chic, dick-swinging rock stars before they became actual rock stars. They even had a top-flight fake ID for entry in the arena-rock millionaire’s club: 1993’s Saturation, a witty, whip-smart record that gave cool-guy smarm a good name. Alas, Urge Overkill never really broke through, and two years later, the group was in ruins, saddled with all the usual post-success bullshit—infighting, drug abuse, general bad vibes—without any of the success. Now Urge Overkill is back, chastened and a bit shaky, with its first record in 16 years, Rock&Roll Submarine. As the title suggests, Urge Overkill has had to start over somewhere below the ground floor in order to recover some of the indie-rock cred it lost when it became that one-hit-wonder band from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.