The former members of Chicago's irony-heavy riff-rock act Urge Overkill are resurfacing with separate projects.

Singer-guitarist Nash Kato just wrapped up recording his solo album, "Debutante," in Chicago. The record is scheduled for release in February 2000 on Stone Gossard's Loosegroove label.

Veruca Salt's Louise Post contributes vocals to one of the songs, and Vandals and Guns N' Roses drummer Josh Freese appears on all tracks, as does Kato's regular sidekick, guitarist Nils St. Cyr, who had replaced Eddie "King" Roeser in 1997 during UO's brief resurrection (see "Urge Overkill's New Guitarist, Record Label, And Album").

Roeser went on to form Electric Airlines with his brother John before hooking up with Jim Kimball (Jesus Lizard, Mule, Laughing Hyenas) in a duo called Lime, which is now known as the Kimball Roeser Effect.

The pair is scheduled to go into the studio in early August and is currently shopping for a record deal. The Kimball Roeser Effect will be touring starting September 28 in Memphis and continuing through to October 12 in Denver.

Urge Overkill released three albums and an EP for Chicago independent label Touch & Go and two for Geffen, was produced by the likes of Steve Albini and Butch Vig, and supported Nirvana on tour. The band's career high came when its four-year-old recording of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon," was a surprise hit off the "Pulp Fiction" soundtrack. The group imploded a year later, in 1997.

Kato attempted to retain the name Urge Overkill and sign a record deal with the Sony 550 label, but co-founder Roeser soon claimed copyright infringement and put an end to the name issue. Sony declined to accept the recorded tracks and dropped the group from the label.