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  • October 8, 1999 - Green Green Gold is getting some serious airplay on the St. John's radio station WSJU and was added to the rotation schedule!!! Go URCHIN!!! Thanks to Menant's bro for the constant URCHIN airplay.
  • *** EXCLUSIVE LATE BREAKING NEWS ***
    September 27, 1999 - Hey people, this is Tomato givin' a quick, important URCHIN update to y'all. Sorry it has been a while since there has been any new URCHIN news or shows for you, but don't fear - we have been busy like Rocky in training, jammin', writin' new tunes and tryin' to move the band to the next level, which is to rock this world!!!     So, here's the scoop... with rocking the world in mind, we have acquired some great major record label interest and we are going to be doing a series of private showcases for them which we are inviting all of you to. These showcases are real important for the band so definitely get down to them and help us get the vibe right. We will provide the beers and music for ya and there is no cover charge. These will probably be our only October NYC gigs, so spread the word and let's rock 'em. The first one is THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 29!!!!! The next one will be scheduled soon, so keep an eye on the web site for it. Here is the info for the first showcase:

    ********** Wednesday, September 29, 1999 at 9:00 PM
    ********** Funkadelic Studios
    ********** 37 West 26th St. (bet. 6th and Bway)
    ********** 2nd floor, Studio #1
  • September 1, 1999 - Foundry Music web site gives great reviews of Sound of URCHIN's "Space Station on the 4,5 & 6" and Approval's "Gotta Make A Poopy". Thanks to Foundry for the great reviews. Visit the site to read the full reviews which include:

    "as cliche as this sounds, Sound of URCHIN creates feel-good music; you pop it in, and your head starts bopping back and forth, and all you want is to hear more    " about Space Station. and...

    "Gotta make a poopy" (how do you say that without smiling?) is highly punk influenced, and over the grinding guitars and jackhammer drum beats, you will make out some hooting and hollaring, which one can only assumer is the "vocal" track" about     Approval's "Gotta Make A Poopy"
  • August 28, 1999 - The Reverend B. ILL was sighted jamming serious lead at the Ween show in Philly Saturday night at The Electric Factory, in front of a sold out crowd of 1,000+. Ween invited B-ILL to play Ween's 3 song encore and ILL got some total soloing time in. Cash says he was broadcast on the club's big screen, like arena style. After the show, ILL was hangin' backstage and was confronted by Phish's own Jonathan Fishman. Fishman commented on ILL's infamous "Phuck Phish" scrawling on his guitar!!! ILL, having just rocked out hard, said he didn't do much but laugh, but did manage to reply, "well I guess you can put a "Phuck Bill" on your drums if you want"!!! HA HA HA, great reply ILL.
  • * EXCLUSIVE NEWS * August 27, 1999:

    The Sound of URCHIN get played on NYC's WNEW FM, 102.7, on the tri-state area's highest rated afternoon show, "The Opie and Anthony Show"!!!!!

    WNEW: The Rock Of New York, plays their first hip-hop song EVER, The Sound of URCHIN's "The Rusty Trombone". This song, written specially for Opie and Anthony's show was played at 5:30 PM on Friday, which is at the show's highest rating time, right when all the communters are driving home. We, here at Steven, are very excited to witness this first for the URCHIN boys. This is a great step in the band's rise to becoming the world's greatest rock band of the millenium!!!! The funniest thing about the broadcast was that a listener called in after the song was played and said he "would rather have his penis hit with a ball pean hammer than hear the song again"!!!!!! Another listener wrote in at the same time and said they loved the song. So, I think we did our job here.

    SO, PEOPLE, BOMB THE STATION WITH CALLS AND E-MAILS FOR URCHIN, MONDAY THRU FRIDAY FROM 3-7 PM!!!

    WNEW Telephone: (212) 757-1027
    Fax Line: (212) 957-WNEW
    E-mail: opack@wnew.com E-mail:
    E-mail:     oaproducer@yahoo.com

    -     CLICK HERE TO HEAR "THE RUSTY TROMBONE" WNEW BROADCAST IN REAL AUDIO
  • June 29, 1999 - URCHIN studio watch: Well, the boys were not able to hit the studio last weekend. Tomato got his hand smashed while bike riding home from IMPATH and being cut off by another cyclist who wasn't watching where he was going. His hand will be OK for the next show, but last weekend it blew up like a balloon. Tomato wishes that you "do not send flowers, please", instead, "do something good for someone today". The bike accident, as well as other technical mishaps at Stonybrook studios kept the boys from layin' down tracks, but keep watching Steven news for a rescheduled studio date.
  • June 24, 1999 - URCHIN hit Oklahoma!!! A story on The Sound of URCHIN for Norman, Oklahoma's WIRE48 punk TV show was aired on Oklahoma cable. The story features an interview with Tomato11, Mr. Richard Rickles, and Scotty Choc from last March's SXSW '99 festival in Austin TX and is pretty funny. Tomato tries hard not to use his favorite four letter words, Rickles spends the interview stickering people with URCHIN stickers and shooting people with a water gun, and Choc just sits there smoking a fat cigar. The show should eventually be available online, in the meantime visit the WIRE48 site. Thanks to Sarah and Maggie from WIRE48 for hooking us up - and look out for these twin sisters in their totally rockin' band "Same Day Service" that is gonna give even have The Breeders seein' double.
  • June 21, 1999 - The Sound of URCHIN will be heading into the studio this weekend to lay down tracks for a possible upcoming release. Tomato11 says: "We hope to finally get the live band's rock versions of the URCHIN repetoire down on tape, as well as some new songs - and depending on how the session goes we might release it because everyone has been askin' us for a good cd of the rock versions of the tunes. We are also thinking of pressing a double cd, where one will be the original hip-hop Barbie Smooth mixes, and the other will be the rock from these upcoming sessions. We'll see on that, though." The band is going into Claude Coleman Jr's Stonybrook studios and Cash/Money/Love is gonna engineer it as well as play some killer bass. Watch Steven news to see how everything turns out!!!
  • June 12, 1999 - The Sound of URCHIN's Tomato11, Reverend B-ILL and Cash/Money/Love were asked to play Guy Heller's (aka Dickie Moist from The Moistboyz and Flase Front fame) wedding. This old school wedding version of URCHIN played mellow instrumentally lounge versions of At The Barbeque, Alligator, They Call Me Ciego - as well as some other classic instrumental jams and a version of Deuce that they called Deuce-lite. The guys were honored to play Guy's wedding because he is a legend in his own right, and there was also great food to be eaten by all. It was like an extended Wendy's super bar with a mixture of Mexican, Italian, American, and French foods. Check out Guy's really insane web site, and The Moistboyz site at Grand Royal.
  • June 11, 1999 - URCHIN hits another MP3 site, AMP3.com and has entered "At The Barbeque" and "Bat's Taxi" into AMP3.com's contest to win a cool million!!! Visit www.AMP3.com's URCHIN page to download more crystal clear URCHIN MP3s and barrade these guys also with e-mails saying that URCHIN should win the contest hands down and become AMP3.com's artists of the year!!!!!!!
  • June 10, 1999 - URCHIN gets on the MP3 trip!!! Visit www.MP3.com's URCHIN page to download great sounding URCHIN MP3s!!! Be sure to barrade MP3.com with e-mails telling them how much you dig The Sound of URCHIN!!!!! This new format of sound file is taking the world by storm and messing up the corporate music world for the time being. Thanks to MP3.com for hooking us up and for giving us a parental advisory on the lyrics.
  • June 6 1999 - Jon't and Be King of Approval get together to record for the first time since the accident in 1996!!! They have finally put the finishing touches on their 12 years in the making effort, "Cob 9"!!! At the session they recorded intense versions of Approval faves like "Gotta Make A Poopy", "Channel 35 Keeps Me Alive/I Just Saw The Bunny", "Jon't's Clothes Don't Fit Be", "Hickory Driftwood", "The Tell You Later Party", and a brand new Approval classic called "I'm Ready". Richie Washington, Dunce Fallopian, Hemaphrokid, The Approval Drum Major, Lee Oasker, and Mr. bripsky were all on hand to lend vocal help to this classic recording session. Soon you will be able to hear Approval on the Steven site and buy copies of the cd.
  • Memorial Day 1999 - URCHIN had a kickin' Barbeque/jam at the Brookridge farm House in Lambertville, NJ. ILL and Cash cooked up some sick ribs and burgers for everyone's hungry stomachs. The food was so hot it was melting Cash's new grill - no joke. Then Choc, Weeves and Tomato went to AC until the wee hours where Choc one himself some sick amounts of money at craps, Tomato came home with 80 clams, and Weeves lost some dough but was in excellent spirits in lieu of the loss.
  • May 1999 - COVER magazine, this totally hip New York entertainment mag, does a great review of the URCHIN cd!!! Read the review by Bernard Shanley and go out and pick up the magazine at any newstand.
  • April 12, 1999 - URCHIN is working on new material to add to their already monstrous array of kickin' tunes!!! At a secret rehearsal on B-ILL and Cash's Brookridge Farmhouse, the boys put together new jams rumored to be titled "The Alligator", "Local 48" (an ode to their roadie), "The Magic Whale, and a live version of the URCHIN diehard classic, "They Call Me Ciego". Watch for these songs to be performed in the near future at a gig near you.
  • February 23, 1999 (with March 2nd addition*) - URCHIN gets new guitarist for live shows!!! Barbie Smooth has recently announced that he will not be performing with the live band, due to wanting to keep his focus on writing and producing for URCHIN. Scotty Rock (*known as of March 2nd as Scotty Choc), a long time friend of Tomato11's, performed at the band's NY show last week, picking up where Barbie's guitar left off. He was welcomed by the fans and added his great sound and style to the URCHIN mix. We, here at Steven, all welcome Scotty Rock to the URCHIN roster and wish him the best with the band!!!!
  • February 5, 1999 - URCHIN plays Ithaca, NY. We had a blast with Coyote in Ithaca, they rock. The place was packed and we actually got the crowd to limbo, for the first time ever, during the "Brooklyn Jacuzzi" section of Space Station - we had been wanting to do that for some time. We also had the crowd doing a call and response chant of "Titanic" and "Friends" - it was like a dream come true. Peace to Amit, Esteban, the New City posse, and the one and only Crawdads, and thanks to Coyote's keys-man for playing "Deal" with us!!!
  • January 7, 1999 - Once again, Broadcast.com hooks up the URCHIN!!!! Broadcast.com's newsletter went out today to its 12,000 subscribers with a hyperlink to hear a full live Sound of URCHIN show recorded at The Baggot Inn in NYC recorded by DJ Phon-X!!! Visit Broadcast.com's site to hear a complete live URCHIN show in Real Audio!!!! This recording even includes a rare URCHIN gem called "Goodbye Fifteeners", only performed live at this show!!! (set list includes: Bat's Taxi, Quiz Show Spy, Briceskating/YYZ/Briceskating, The Junius Ponds, Space Station on the 4,5 & 6/These are the People of the Time, At the Barbeque, Goodbye Fifteeners, Green Green Gold)
  • January 11, 1999 - The Sound of URCHIN gets great review in Belgium!!! Go figure, the first place overseas to get into the boys is Belgium. That is somewhere near France, right? Well, anyway, a zine called L'ENTREPOT managed to get a hold of the URCHIN cd and they dug it. Here is a copy of the review:

    "The Sound of URCHIN brings fresh sounding Hip-Hop. The six songs are piece by piece easy listening songs with a high sing along level. The storytelling lyrics works out very well and give it a bit an De La Soul feeling. In a song as "Quiz show spy" you hear that the guys have listen to funk, soul and jazz music. "At the barbeque" is my favorite story, real funny song. And that is what I think is the intention is of "The sound of URCHIN", entertain people. That's what this CD is al about entertainment, and good entertainment.
  • 1999 NEW YEARS MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDER

    Well, 1998 was a great year for Steven Records. The Sound of URCHIN has been taking off like a plane and has just finished out the year with an opening spot on WEEN's New Years Mini-Tour in NY, Philly and DC. The shows rocked and     the WEEN fans were won over by the URCHIN boys every night. Richard Rickles is now a full time member of the band as "Tambourine Specialist and Dancer", and should be commended for helping to get the WEEN crowds up off their feet and into the band. Gene Ween even called on Richard Rickles during the DC show to dance on stage with them, and Rickles took the invitation to his heart and cut a rug like Fred Astaire for two of their songs.

    We look forward to another great year for The Sound of URCHIN and those other artists on my label. Cheers, and thanks for all the support in helping with the growth of the URCHIN and keeping up with the Steven site!!!!

    Best regards,

    Steve Pennsylvania
    Owner and Founder of Steven Records
  • October 14, 1998 - "Quiz Show Spy" is the first Sound of URCHIN song to be played on the radio!!!! Northeastern University's WRBB in Boston played the song today to its beantown audience, and will go down in history as the first radio station to transmit Tomato11 and Barbie Smooth across the airwaves!!!
  • October 1998 - It's here!!! The Sound of URCHIN are in the "Jim Beam Backroom" area of the October isuue (#22) of LAUNCH Magazine as a new band to look out for!! LAUNCH says "we love The Sound of URCHIN"!! LAUNCH is a national interactive CD-ROM magazine containing information on music, movies and games. Go pick the magazine up - Click here to learn more about LAUNCH
  • October 1998 - The Sound of URCHIN record new tune entitled "HAPPY". This song is the first patriotic song in decades!!! Do the boys in URCHIN dare to record a song about their love for the land of the free??? Also, Cash Money Love and Barbie Smooth lay down tracks for a new eerie URCHIN tune to be entitled "Drums on the Nile".
  • September 12, 1998 - Tomato11 and Barbie Smooth get together with the one and only C. Law (from Ween, Amandla) for a special late night recording session. Tomato and The Law trade rhymes in the old school stylie. They kicked it into the wee hours on a new song which will appear down the road on the next Sound of URCHIN release.
  • September 3, 1998 - Tomato11 and Barbie Smooth gather at Umbrella studios to record a brand new tune titled "The Junius Ponds". We, at Steven, can't wait to hear this new URCHIN gem!!! This tune will feature a ripping guitar solo from the one and only Reverend B. ll!!!!
  • August 17, 1998 - Steven Records wishes a very happy birthday to the one and only Tomato11.
  • August 8, 1998 - The Sound of URCHIN will be playing their first live performance at a private unannounced location in the hills of Pennsylvania.
  • August 3, 1998 - The Sound of URCHIN recruit a new member for the live show. Guitarist, The Reverend B. Ill will be joing the URCHIN for the live experience.
  • July 13, 1998 - Steven Records Web Site goes live!!!!! We are very proud, here at Steven, to be a part of the World Wide Web!!!!!
  • July 12, 1998 - The Sound of URCHIN get together for the first time in a live setting in Lambertsville, NJ for a very successful rehearsal. Tomato11 and Barbie Smooth were joined by Cash Money Love on bass and are preparing to bring there show to the masses. WATCH FOR UPCOMING LIVE DATES!!!!!
  • June 26, 1998 - The first 4 Tomato11 four track albums are pressed on to CD for the first time. "Four Fours From A Calendar Fan", "Springtime Makes Me Feel", "Earth Blanket", and "Willow For Gasoline Alley" span the past four years in Chris Harfenist's musical mind, and also include recordings dating all the way back to 1984.
  • June 22, 1998 - Tomato11 and Barbie Smooth return to Umbrella studios to record a new bunch of songs. Rumored song titles include "They Call Me Ciego", "Happy", and "Send In The Lick-'Em-Up".
  • July 4, 1998 - Steven Records wishes a very happy birthday to the one and only Barbie Smooth.


      
   

 

  		     
   
         

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