urchin news archive

  • NEW ALBUM UPDATE 4!
    yo yo - so, we have been crazy busy these days. in addition to piling up tracks on the new album in the studio, we have been getting our live chops up and running in the rehearsal studio. it feels great to be preparing for some live shows again! we are working on old shit, new shit, and have been throwing around some new covers for the nectars show - and the covers are pretty random at that, we are stretching out in that area, ha ha. we don't want to give the same show two nights in a row, so we're getting together as much variety as possible. let us know if ya have any suggestions or requests, on our songs you might want to hear and/or covers. also, in case ya didn't see, we added a providence rhode island date for the wednesday before the burlington shows. and as far as major touring goes, we are looking to do a huge 5 week tour, but are not sure of the exact time frame yet. we should know pretty soon, but we want to make sure that we will have the album completely done and mastered by the tour. we have a pretty cool plan worked out, to make the tour more special, and the album needs to be done in order for us to see it through. we want to get on the road tomorrow, but we want to have it coincide with the start of the new album phase. more updates soon! pumped as ever, tomato

  • NEW ALBUM UPDATE 3!
    holy shit! more tracks done! i wish we could share it now, but it is only gonna get better. i don't really know what else to write about now, except to say that this is far the best thing we have ever done, period. i cannot wait for people to hear it. tomato


  • NEW ALBUM UPDATE 2!
    People have been asking when the release date will be... we don't have any official release date yet. if we stay on schedule right now we are looking to master the album in the beginning of may. that means the album will be completely done then. we are probably going to do the same thing we did with the diamond, where we press a limited edition version soon after the mastering and then prepare for the official release for sometime hopefully in the fall. that's all a rough plan right now, nothing set in stone. tomato

  • NEW ALBUM UPDATE 1!
    uh-oh! basic tracks are done for the new urchin album! holy shit, we are psyched. we have 18 tracks laid down, and about 6-8 takes of each song to choose from. the shit is sounding so good. bill and hag are playing their asses off on the recordings. we cannot wait to get it done, mixed and mastered. it sounds like us live, has all the energy, and the sound is pristine, heavy and deep as well. the performances, which is most important, are on fire, not held back by anything. more later... tomato

  • SOU NEW YEAR UPDATE
    Happy New Year! Well, 2006 was a pretty fucked up year for me personally, I am so glad it is over. Time to start a new year and put that shit to rest. As far as urchin was concerned, it was actually a great year, we spent winter 06 writing new songs for the upcoming album, doing various one-off shows as well as some great moistboyz shows on the side, had our most successful US tour to date - the "symptoms 06 tour", started pre-production for the new album in the fall, then worked out the music in front of crowds on the fall "studio warm-up tour". all in all a great year. but through it i had some fucked up visits to the ER in the fall, which messed up my head. everything's cool right now, though, and it was kinda funny, because all throughout my ER visits we were rocking right through it, in most cases that same night, right after i waas discharged. i don't really have a good explanation for all the bad-happenings in the fall really, ya know, sometimes things just all kind of hit ya at once and you have to ride it. that can be with good stuff or bad stuff as you know, in this case it was just plain weird stuff. i'm healthier than ever though, in case yer wondering, and very excited about 2007. Finally, we get to put out a new album! It is gonna kick ass, if ya ask me, or the rest of the guys, ha ha. no seriously, it's gonna kick ass. the problem right now is how do we get the album down to a simple 12 or so songs. it might have to be a 20 song album. time will tell on that one. anyway, it will be a new phase, and you know we've been through many phases already - if you want to catch up on all our phases, go check out the new discography we just put up here. regardless, with the record business deep in the shitter, and with the most shamefull representation of new music out there ever in my lifetime, it will be great to put out something full of passion, creativity, and dual leads from two of the best living guitarists around, and i mean that. it's been a while since we put out new music, too long if ya ask me. fuck, thin lizzy put out 2 albums a year throughout their career! and they were all classics! so maybe we can do something about that and say fuck what the industry wants, and put out quality music more than once every two years! yeah, that's my resolution for 07. i didn't have one until this second. thanks. rock and roll forever. really. tomato

  • ** NEW LIVE SOU VIDEOS **
    We put up some great footage from the recent Halloween show in Burlington VT at the world famous Nectars. "Alligator Swamp", "The Door", and "Bomb Me" are up now. Watch em HERE in the video section.

  • ** NEW SOU 06 PICS **
    Go here to view some choice Urchin pics to highlight another great year in our world.

  • ** DOWNLOAD THE SOU X-MAS SONG HERE **
    We have had requests to post the unreleased Urchin X-mas song, "X-mas Tree", so here it is, a free download for you. You can also hear the song featured in The Resident's X-Mas special here on YouTube.

  • ** MOISTBOYZ LIVE DVD RELEASE **
    The Moistboyz (Dickie Moist, Dean Ween, Tomato, B-ILL, Dave Dreiwitz) are releasing their first live DVD, LIVE JIHAD, in the US and Europe on June 6th!! This DVD is a live show from The Bowery Ballroom in NYC from this past September, from the fall tour. The footage is awesome, features the full, unedited live experience, and the sound was professionally recorded and mixed. The European release includes a cd of the music from the show in addition to the DVD.
    GO HERE TO ORDER DVD, OR DVD + T-SHIRT BUNDLE


  • MUCH URCHIN VIDEO ON YOUTUBE.COM
    A computer nerd friend of ours has put up tons of Urchin video at YouTube.com. Now, most of the videos are available at the Urchin website, but there is some stuff, like the 2002 Summer Tour Movie that is only available there. Also, we heard it is easier for most computers to view videos in YouTube formats. Whatever the case, there is a real nice collection, so go check em out HERE!!!

  • WHAT HAS THE URCHIN BEEN UP TO ALL WINTER????
    We have been getting lots of e-mails regarding where Urchin has been this winter, so here's the scoop straight from the Tomato's mouth (from the Urchin message board)...

    "Yo yo - we are doin great actually. We have been holed up in the "Apes On Ice Professional Recording Facilities" studio and have over twenty new tunes demo'd for the forthcoming yet-untitled album, and at least another twenty more in the works. We are working out how the album will be properly recorded, produced, etc, and that should start forming soon. I can't wait to get this going, and for people to hear this shit. We are real real pscyhed about the new music! Our booking agent is getting close to finishing the booking for the june "symptoms 06" u.s. tour - we will announce the dates fairly soon. The boat show is gonna be a two day event, 8/11 & 12, first night on the boat, second night on coney island. That's pretty much what's been going on. We have been laying low from gigging, but have been totally busy getting ready for the next fight. I personally can't wait to get playing again, and hitting the road, but we needed to take the winter to hibernate in the lab. Rock and roll is and will always be king. Tomate"

  • ** MAKE SURE URCHIN COMES TO YOUR TOWN **
    ON THEIR MASSIVE JUNE '06 US HEADLINING TOUR!
    Even though we might do some minor touring before then, we are in the process of putting together a huge US headlining tour for June '06 with our new booking agents at Tone Deaf Touring. We want to hear from you! Just e-mail steve.pennsylvania@soundofurchin.com and let us know that you want Urchin to play your city. We will do everything we can to make it happen. Also, any bands out there that want to open for Urchin in select cities, let us know your website and where we can find some music/info/bio, etc. Rock on and get ready for the most insane SOU tour yet!

  • ** SOU ON PACIFIC COAST HELLWAY **
    Urchin was featured on the Pacific Coast Hellway podcast show on 2/10, which is also broadcast on Sirius Sattelite radio. You can hear the podcast here.
    and check out more about the show at:
    www.pacificcoasthellway.com

  • SOU NORTHSIX FOOTAGE
    Someone contacted us via our myspace account with this link to his bootleg video website, with footage of People In The Clouds from last month's show at Northsix in Brooklyn. Enjoy! Watch it here!

  • READ THIS GREAT REVIEW OF THE DIAMOND FROM A SALT LAKE CITY PAPER

  • URCHIN IN THIS MONTH'S DRUM! MAGAZINE
    Go to yer local newsstand, or music store, and pick up the current, December 2005 issue of DRUM! magazine. Tomato is featured in an article called "My First Drumset". Drum! talks to Tomato about his first drumset as well as his early drum memories, and there is a pricless pic of a very young Tomato rockin' the kit. visit DRUM! here

  • ** NEW URCHIN VIDEO - "THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CLOUDS" **
    - watch in Quick Time
    - watch in T3 (Windows Media)
    - watch in T1/DSL (Real)
    - watch in 56K (Real)
    This video for "There Are People In The Clouds" is the second video from The Diamond, and was directed by Brooklyn NY underground video director Chris Cassidy. He has done videos for Vic Thrill, 2 Skinnee J's, Radio 4, among others. Watch out for it on video networks, video websites, etc.


  • WATCH THE URCHIN CBS LATE LATE SHOW PERFORMANCE OF "THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE CLOUDS" HERE:
    - streaming quicktime (small)
    - streaming mpeg (large)


  • FREE URCHIN MP3 DOWNLOAD FROM THE DIAMOND!!
    click link to download a high quality MP3 of the song "There Are People In The Clouds" straight off of The Diamond!!

  • SEE PICS FROM URCHIN'S SPRING/SUMMER '05 US TOURS

  • DOWNLOAD THE FULL DIAMOND DIARAMA, FROM THE DIAMOND PACKAGE ART

  • READ A REVIEW OF THE DIAMOND AT PUNKNEWS.ORG

  • SEE PICS FROM THE 5/17 CBGBs DIAMOND RELEASE SHOW HERE
    SEE PICS FROM THE 5/25 IRVING PLAZA SHOW HERE
    FROM NOWPUBLIC.COM

  • READ A REVIEW OF THE DIAMOND AT BLOGCRITICS.ORG

  • READ A GREAT NEW REVIEW OF THE DIAMOND AT BLASTING-ZONE.COM

  • CBS TO RE-AIR LATE LATE SHOW W/ SOU ON 7/7!!!
    One more time f*ckers!!! CBS will be re-airing The Late Late Show with Urchin performing "There Are People In The Clouds", on Thursday, July 7th at 12:30 AM EST. So, for all you slackers who missed it the first time, or fell asleep in front of the tube with beer in hand, make sure to catch it. Rock n' rolllllll!!!

  • SEE PICS FROM URCHIN'S CBS "THE LATE LATE SHOW" PERFORMANCE HERE

  • URCHIN IN THIS MONTH'S METAL EDGE MAGAZINE
    Go to yer local newstand and pick up the current issue of Metal Edge magazine (the Aug 05 issue). There is a 4 page feature story on the Urchin and an interview with Tomato.

  • SPIN.COM REVIEW OF THE URCHIN CBGBs SHOW
    Read a great review of the Urchin Diamond Release Show at CBGBs HERE AT SPIN.COM.

  • DOWNLOAD NEW LIVE URCHIN MP3s HERE!!!
    We have made the whole first set available from the recent "Midnight At The Knit" show at The Knitting Factory in NYC. It kicks ass, download that shit, over an hours worth of live urchin!

  • URCHIN ACOUSTIC ON WHTG FM IN NJ SUN 6/26
    If you are in the NJ Shore area, tune in Sun 6/26 at 10:00 PM to hear Urchin performing acoustic and being interviewed on 98.5 FM or 106.3 FM, on WHTG G-ROCK Radio's new music show "The Underground". Visit the website here.

  • URCHIN WEST COAST CD RELEASE SHOW
    Tuesday June 7th, 2005 at The Roxy in LA!!
    Urchin Headlining the legendary Roxy on Sunset in Hollywood!
    We want all our west coast people celebrating The Diamond with us!
    GET TIX HERE
    (9009 W Sunset Blvd - 310-278-9457)

  • URCHIN ON THE LATE LATE SHOW ON CBS
    Monday June 6th, 2005 - 12:30 AM EST on CBS
    Tune into your local CBS station and see Urchin's first ever network tv show appearance, performing as the musical guest on The Late Late Show. This show, the old Craig Kilborn show, is now hosted by Craig Ferguson and has been doing great in the ratings, bringing on first rate guests, and even reuniting Dinosaur Jr a couple weeks ago. Make sure ya watch this one or set yer DVRs or TIVOs!
    VISIT THE LATE LATE SHOW HERE

    GET FREE TIX HERE
    Come see the taping of the show! Just fill out the form and print them out. You have to call a phone number to confirm the tickets. Also, it is first come, first serve to get into the show, so get there at least 90 minutes early the day of the show.

  • ** NEW URCHIN RADIO REQUEST PAGE!! **
    Help us out! The new Urchin cd, The Diamond, has been getting lots of radio play on college stations around the country. Show them that you are out there by using the Radio Request Page to request your favorite Diamond song to your local station. Just click on your state and town and send in your request. It only takes a sec but will help tremendously. ROCK N' ROLL!!

  • ** URCHIN IN THIS MONTH'S GUITAR WORLD MAGAZINE **
    Go to yer local newstand and pick up the current issue of Guitar World magazine (the July 2005 issue), there is an article in the "Introducing" column on the Urchin with a nice pic of the boys. Rock on!
    Visit Guitar World online here
  • URCHIN LIVE ON WSOU 89.5 FM
    WSOU, Pirate Radio 89.5 FM in the tri-state area, has been embracing the Urchin these days, playing "There Are People in The Clouds" & "Police Helicopters Over Brooklyn", among other Diamond songs. Urchin will be live in the studio for an interview as well as spinning tracks from The Diamond this Monday 5/16 at 1:00 PM. Also, there will be CBGBs ticket giveaways, so tune in!! The Urchin boys grew up on WSOU radio, the most important new music/metal/punk station in the country! REQUEST SOU ON WSOU or speak to the boys during the show: (973) 761-9768, www.wsou.net, wsou@shu.edu

  • READ A NEW REVIEW OF THE DIAMOND FROM PRICK MAGAZINE

  • If you can't wait for 5/17...
    THE DIAMOND AVAILABLE NOW FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD here:
    The Diamond, Rhapsody, RealStore, Virgin Digital
    FYE Download,     AOL MUSIC (via aol browser)
    go to your favorite digital download service and add some real rock to yer hard drive and mp3 players.

  • ** TOMATO ON NYC PUBLIC ACCESS TV **
    on The Resident
    Monday, May 2 at 10PM
    on Manhattan Public Access stations:
    Time Warner Channel 67
    RCN Channel 101
    If you live in the NYC area, be sure to tune into the show, The Resident, Mon May 2nd at 10:00 PM on Manhattan Public Access, to see an interview with Tomato. Tomato talks about the history of the band, as well as the state of rock today and Urchin's ride through the music business. The show will also feature plenty of footage from the March 19th "Midnight At The Knit" Urchin show! Let us know if there is anyone in the area who can tape it for others outside the area to see. Here's the
    for more info, visit http://www.theresident.net

  • TOMATO TOP 5 NYC BANDS IN AM NEW YORK
    If you live in NYC, pick up today's (Wed, April 20) AM New York newspaper. There is a column featuring Tomato's Top 5 local bands to see in NYC. The newspaper is free and is given away at almost every subway in the city.

  • READ THIS INTERVIEW WITH TOMATO FROM INSIDE CONNECTION HERE

  • URCHIN GETTING AIRPLAY ON WSOU FM IN NJ/NYC
    WSOU 89.5 FM PIRATE RADIO in South Orange NJ, the best underground radio station in the US, has been playing "Police Helicopters Over Brooklyn" as well other select tracks off The Diamond - enough to chart Urchin on WSOU's playlist ths week.
    So, show them that you are out there and that Urchin Rock n' Roll is for real: if you live in the area, or not, send 'em an e-mail requesting "Police Helilcopters" or your favorite Diamond track, or call 'em on the request line, or fax 'em...
    REQUEST SOU ON WSOU
    www.wsou.net/
    Request e-mail: wsou@shu.edu Request Line: (973) 761-9768
    General Fax: (973) 761-7593

  • NEW DIAMOND REVIEW AT ALLMUSIC.COM

  • URCHIN LIVE ON THE RADIO & WEB
    Sun, April 3
    9-11 PM
    WRSU 88.7 FM (Rutgers Radio, New Brunswick, NJ)
    or listen online at http://www.wrsu.org for those out of the area
    Make sure to tune into this one... Urchin will be interviewed, as well as performing live in the studio and just hanging out taking people's questions and requests.
    DOWNLOAD AN MP3 OF THE SHOW HERE

  • SEE PICS FROM THE "MIDNIGHT AT THE KNIT" SHOW & THE MIDWEST TOUR HERE

  • NEW TOMATO INTERVIEW AT AWAY TEAM.COM
    Tomato professes his love for Hall & Oates

  • AWAY TEAM.COM ALSO REVIEWS THE DIAMOND
    8 out of 10 stars!!

  • ** FIRST DIAMOND CD REVIEW IS IN **
    a great review from babysue, a zine from TN
    read the review here

  • ** RELEASE DATE FOR THE NEW URCHIN CD ANNOUNCED **
    TUES APRIL 5TH 2005 - "THE DAY OF THE DIAMOND"
    Mark yer calendars on this one, people... on 4/5/05 the new SOU cd, "The Diamond" will be available worldwide, in real stores and online ones!! There are 11 tracks on cd, plus 3 unreleased bonus tracks!! Songs like "Police Helicopters Over Brooklyn", "The Door", "There Are People In The Clouds" and "Last December", and all the others, you'll know from seeing Urchin live shows. The production is mint... with B-ill & Seahag's guitars right out front and the spirit of the live Urchin totally captured. Even if you managed to grab a copy of the now out-of-print pre-release Diamond Ltd Edition cd at a show, make sure you pick up this official version... it has a different unreleased bonus track, totally new deluxe packaging with lots of quality art that you'd expect from Urchin, and a booklet full of goodies including the lyrics!! The Diamond is the cd to get you back into trusting buying actual cds, so go out to the store on April 5th 2005 and pick up this piece of real rock n' roll music!!!
    PREVIEW SONGS FROM THE DIAMOND HERE
  • SOUTHERN TOUR PICS POSTED AT THE MESSAGE BOARD

  • HALLOWEEN SHOW PICS POSTED AT THE MESSAGE BOARD

  • BOAT SHOW PICS UP NOW, GO SEE EM HERE

  • SUMMER TOUR/BOAT SHOW VIDEO NOW UP
    Go here to watch some great footage of the west coast tour and the boat show, streaming in quicktime. Make sure you watch the footage of Tomato and Doo Doo singing "Sounds Of Silence" karyoke in Vegas.

  • WEST COAST TOUR WRAP-UP
    The Urchin Boat Show in NYC was a complete success!! The show was sold out, and the boat set sail from 12-3 AM rockin its way under the three major nyc bridges and around the statue of liberty. And the "Crossing Streams" West Coast Tour with Instant Death was also as insane as it gets. Thanks to everyone who came out and rocked us up and down the left coast. Streaming Video to come soon from both of these!!!
  • SPECIAL FROM THE ARCHIVES!!!
    WATCH A STREAMING QUICK TIME VID OF ST. LOUIS LEGEND BEATLE BOB WITH THE URCHIN FROM 2002

  • CHECK OUT SOME FREE LIVE URCHIN MP3s HERE:
    download some MP3s from a Portland, OR show from last April. We just got hold of this excellent quality board mix from the show, and wanted to share. It's dry, like all board mixes, but other than that, these are fierce performances of Diamond songs. The highlight is definitely the 11 minute version of The Diamond - something must have been in the air that night. Enjoy!!
  • URCHIN TO RECORD SECOND FULL LENGTH RCA CD
    very preliminary recording has begun on tracks for a second full length rca urchin album, at tomato's (drummer/lead singer) studio, the "apes on ice professional recording facilities", in brooklyn, ny. tomato says... "once we get the basic form of the album's tunes and direction here in my home studio, we will look for the right producer to bring the songs to the next level, then move camp to an nyc studio to pull it all together. we have a new level of fire and drive right now in us that is fueling the process, and have been on the road most of the summer, which has allowed the songs to grow with time in the summer heat. i don't know if all the songs we are writing will make it onto the record, but right now some of the favorites are called "bomb me", "three men and a baby", and "not everybody loves raymond". we hope to have the cd out in march 2003.
  • ATTENTION: WE HAVE HAD TO CLOSE DOWN THE URCHINDISE MERCH SITE TEMPORARILY!! IT WAS RECENTLY HACKED INTO AND 10,000 FRAUDULENT CHARGES WERE PUT THROUGH TO THE SITE - SO, NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT IS A PRETTY MESSY SITUATION. WE SHOULD HAVE EVERYTHING IRONED OUT SOON, AND BE BACK ONLINE. IN CASE YOU ARE STILL AWAITING AN ORDER, PLEASE FORWARD YOUR ORDER RECEIPT TO US BY E-MAIL, IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED YOUR ORDER, AND WE WILL BE SURE TO GET IT TO YOU.

URCHIN @ GRAVITY GAMES (1)
watch urchin do "the millipede" in front of 10,000 people plus behind the scenes footage

URCHIN @ GRAVITY GAMES (2)
watch urchin shop for depends undergarments then play "fireflies on the 4th of july"

URCHIN & THE D
watch urchin & jack black do "spirit of the radio" plus of urchin & the d in st. louis!!!

URCHIN & WATT
watch urchin & mike watt perform "the red & the black" in athens, ga!!!

URCHIN'S NEW SONG
watch urchin perform their new hit "zen magic marker" on the daily beat show!!!