Thursday
Feb032011

BIO

When you listen to The Years, the debut studio recording from Urbanites, you're hearing a band in progress. Beneath the frayed linen cover of a classic novel or between the scratchy grooves of a worn out 33 & 1/3rd, there's a story that we've all heard some version of - if not lived through, more times than we'd care to admit: We expend our lives trying to get to an ideal that doesn't actually exist. And when we come to understand this reality, we often find that, what we truly wanted, was right there - with us the entire time.

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Thursday
Feb032011

Thursday
Feb032011

QUOTES

"Impressive... arena-rattling grandeur"
- Jim DeRogatis / Chicago Sun Times / Sound Opinions

"Hailing from the Indiana Burbs of Chicago, the band sounds too mature and confident to stay a local secret for long. Full, robust and heartfelt rock, the band is just getting started with a sky's-the-limit sound."
- Avant Chicago

'With a sound as big as it is – all the more impressive for a band so young – its music can practically move mountains.'
- True / Slant