March 2022 • Volume 48 , Number 05 • www . illinoisentertainer . com
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COVER STORY : URGE OVERKILL
Time flies - especially if you mark time by elevens , and years , and releases from your favorite rock band – at least if that band is Urge Overkill . Some may feel it ' s been a long time ( 2011 ) since their last release Rock & Roll Submarine ; others may say it feels like yesterday . It may certainly sound like yesterday when you listen to their new album Oui . out now on Omnivore Recordings . Some people might feel that " time " as a forward-moving construct is suspect , especially after living with the inertia caused by a pandemic that is three years in the making . And while some believe time and progress are interwoven , if you ' re Nash Kato and Eddie " King " Roeser , progress can present itself as the proverbial double-edged sword . Penelope Biver caught up with Nash and King as the band prepared the final touches on their long anticipated return .
HELLO MY NAME IS MURPH
The overnight popularity of Liverpool power trio The Wombats back in 2007 , via its post-ironic breakthrough hit “ Let ’ s Dance to Joy Division ,” was a welcome post-Britpop surprise . Bandleader Matthew ‘ Murph ’ Murphy and crew proved to be clever , shrewd-hooked songwriters who pinballed through multiple music genres , from pop to punk , folk , R & B , even vintage disco , while emphasizing brainy but witty wordplay that became their unique calling card , one that they ’ re still playing successfully , to this day . The Wombats ’ latest full-length foray , Fix Yourself , Not the World , just hit # 1 on the UK charts , with old-school physical copies actually accounting for 86 % of weekly sales totals — a rarity in this Spotify-streaming era . An EP of outtakes and new songs ( and an NFT ) will soon follow , striking while the iron of familiarity is red-hot . Tom Lanham talked to to Murph about prerparing new music during the pandemic while his bandmates were 5500 miles away .
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Elle King : The lost lockdown Interview .
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The Batman arrives .
Spins
Eddie Vedder , Andy Bell , Burned in Effigy and more .
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Mark Caro ' s Caropop .
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1250 shows and 2000 bands , live music is revving it up again .
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