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About Urbandub Gabby Alipe (Vocalist / Guitarist)
Lalay Lim (Bassist)
John Mendoza (Drummer)
John Dinopol (Lead Guitarist) After more than 10,000 albums sold, thousands of miles traveled around the country and some dizzying highs and lows, an energized Urbandub returns with their new album, Under Southern Lights.
Urbandub emerged from Cebu City with a completely infectious and original blend of dynamic song structures and hurricane-force rhythms that made them a sure thing to break out of the pack, but even the band could not have imagined how far.
With a string of successful indie releases, a tireless touring schedule and a steamrolling fan base, the band made their major label debut with EMI Phils with 2005’s Embrace. The album was a smash, spawning huge hit singles and sold-out tours in the country.
Gabby Alipe, Urbandub’s vocalist says “Definitely we were humbled by the fact that a lot of people liked the album. That album was written during a very dark time for the band, individually we were going through a lot during the creation of that album. After finishing it and having people relate to what we were trying to say with that album was a definite surprise for us but made us extremely happy and inspired us to try to come up with a better album after Embrace.”
Their Birth
Amidst their passion to write great songs and have the “Sound of the South” heard by everybody they can reach, Cebu rock act Urbandub’s birth was March 2000. After being warriors of the indie scene in its truest sense, they released their full-length and debut album entitled BIRTH the following year. Releasing the sophomore album, INFLUENCE, under Lighter Records (a Cebu-based independent label) in 2003, the band’s music matured making an impact on each individual who opened up to listen to them. INFLUENCE, includes radio-released singles such as “Gone” and their most famous release to date, “Soul Searching”, which made them at the prestigious NU107 Rock Awards “Song Of The Year” in 2003. Not the type to skip a beat, they released another single called “A New Tattoo”.
A quartet composed of musicians Gabby Alipe (vocals/guitar), John Dinopol (guitar), Janjan Mendoza (drums) and Lalay Lim (bass) have reached a massive and positive cult-like following outside their home base.
Their Influence
Urbandub is known for their experimentation of rock and they have gained nationwide attention through radio (particularly NU107) and concerts they have played across the country. They have brought the concept of the “original music” to a newer level.
The group has steadily been gaining attention nationwide, due partly to the growing popularity of their single "Soul Searching" (which won "Song Of The Year" in the recent NU107 Rock Awards), and partly to the group's recent foray to the burgeoning Manila scene.
Touted as the “Heroes of Indie Bands”, Urbandub is the first indie band who has released albums nationwide thru EMI’s help. EMI also featured Urbandub with the unique and not to mention—heaviest compilation of Pinoy rock entitled FULL VOLUME with a remake of Sade’s NO ORDINARY LOVE.
Embraced
Hailing from Cebu City but their legion of fans come across the country. 2005’s “Alert The Armory” and “First of Summer” culled from the third album Embrace, became one of the most played songs on local radio. Serving up the band’s usual host of poetic metaphors thru guitar riffs and screaming drums single after single came rolling like Urbandub’s name is glued on top of the charts.
Embrace was Urbandub’s third album which was launched in March 2005 and Embrace also marks Urbandub debut under EMI Phils.
Under Southern Lights
“We experimented a lot on this album. We also tried to write songs far from the specific genre our fans are used to hearing from us. On this album we challenged ourselves musically in terms of creativity with the riffs, beats and melodies,” Alipe says. “The past albums we worked with a formula, writing songs inside our musical comfort zone, but for this album we tried to personally push the envelope a bit.”
Under Southern Lights, the latest album, boasts 10 tracks of Urbandub’s new approach to their own brand—their brilliance shines throughout a melodious rock tune and diverse songwriting. Alipe shares “We retreated to Cebu City for 2 months just to focus on writing. Then came back to Manila, did some fine tuning to the songs before recording them.”
“The recording was a great learning experience for the band. It was our first time to record with 2 inch tape rather than digitally which we were used to when we were still recording in Cebu. We also were privileged enough to be able to use specific types of equipment that we felt were needed for the songs, like different kinds of amplifiers or synthesizers,” Lalay Lim shared.
Asked about the album title, “The name is our tribute to Cebu City where we come from and where we did most of the writing for the album. It’s also a metaphor for our families in Cebu, being that they’re our inspiration and guiding light,” Alipe said.
The album starts with a shot, with that first single “Guillotine” – an indelible guitar hook and ferocious drums charge forth as Urbandub’s trademark mix of airtight vocal harmonies.
If you have compiled all Urbandub songs into your own greatest hits album, you probably get the impression of “change.” For a band like them, change is never that good. Urbandub is growing but not changing. They may be going to perform in a bigger arena, but they’ll still going to sweat the same. And still be going to produce the songs like we’ve known them for. “We wanna try to reach out to more people with this album,” says Gabby.
Artist Achievements:
2006 NU Rock Awards
Lalay Lim (Bassist)
John Mendoza (Drummer)
John Dinopol (Lead Guitarist) After more than 10,000 albums sold, thousands of miles traveled around the country and some dizzying highs and lows, an energized Urbandub returns with their new album, Under Southern Lights.
Urbandub emerged from Cebu City with a completely infectious and original blend of dynamic song structures and hurricane-force rhythms that made them a sure thing to break out of the pack, but even the band could not have imagined how far.
With a string of successful indie releases, a tireless touring schedule and a steamrolling fan base, the band made their major label debut with EMI Phils with 2005’s Embrace. The album was a smash, spawning huge hit singles and sold-out tours in the country.
Gabby Alipe, Urbandub’s vocalist says “Definitely we were humbled by the fact that a lot of people liked the album. That album was written during a very dark time for the band, individually we were going through a lot during the creation of that album. After finishing it and having people relate to what we were trying to say with that album was a definite surprise for us but made us extremely happy and inspired us to try to come up with a better album after Embrace.”
Their Birth
Amidst their passion to write great songs and have the “Sound of the South” heard by everybody they can reach, Cebu rock act Urbandub’s birth was March 2000. After being warriors of the indie scene in its truest sense, they released their full-length and debut album entitled BIRTH the following year. Releasing the sophomore album, INFLUENCE, under Lighter Records (a Cebu-based independent label) in 2003, the band’s music matured making an impact on each individual who opened up to listen to them. INFLUENCE, includes radio-released singles such as “Gone” and their most famous release to date, “Soul Searching”, which made them at the prestigious NU107 Rock Awards “Song Of The Year” in 2003. Not the type to skip a beat, they released another single called “A New Tattoo”.
A quartet composed of musicians Gabby Alipe (vocals/guitar), John Dinopol (guitar), Janjan Mendoza (drums) and Lalay Lim (bass) have reached a massive and positive cult-like following outside their home base.
Their Influence
Urbandub is known for their experimentation of rock and they have gained nationwide attention through radio (particularly NU107) and concerts they have played across the country. They have brought the concept of the “original music” to a newer level.
The group has steadily been gaining attention nationwide, due partly to the growing popularity of their single "Soul Searching" (which won "Song Of The Year" in the recent NU107 Rock Awards), and partly to the group's recent foray to the burgeoning Manila scene.
Touted as the “Heroes of Indie Bands”, Urbandub is the first indie band who has released albums nationwide thru EMI’s help. EMI also featured Urbandub with the unique and not to mention—heaviest compilation of Pinoy rock entitled FULL VOLUME with a remake of Sade’s NO ORDINARY LOVE.
Embraced
Hailing from Cebu City but their legion of fans come across the country. 2005’s “Alert The Armory” and “First of Summer” culled from the third album Embrace, became one of the most played songs on local radio. Serving up the band’s usual host of poetic metaphors thru guitar riffs and screaming drums single after single came rolling like Urbandub’s name is glued on top of the charts.
Embrace was Urbandub’s third album which was launched in March 2005 and Embrace also marks Urbandub debut under EMI Phils.
Under Southern Lights
“We experimented a lot on this album. We also tried to write songs far from the specific genre our fans are used to hearing from us. On this album we challenged ourselves musically in terms of creativity with the riffs, beats and melodies,” Alipe says. “The past albums we worked with a formula, writing songs inside our musical comfort zone, but for this album we tried to personally push the envelope a bit.”
Under Southern Lights, the latest album, boasts 10 tracks of Urbandub’s new approach to their own brand—their brilliance shines throughout a melodious rock tune and diverse songwriting. Alipe shares “We retreated to Cebu City for 2 months just to focus on writing. Then came back to Manila, did some fine tuning to the songs before recording them.”
“The recording was a great learning experience for the band. It was our first time to record with 2 inch tape rather than digitally which we were used to when we were still recording in Cebu. We also were privileged enough to be able to use specific types of equipment that we felt were needed for the songs, like different kinds of amplifiers or synthesizers,” Lalay Lim shared.
Asked about the album title, “The name is our tribute to Cebu City where we come from and where we did most of the writing for the album. It’s also a metaphor for our families in Cebu, being that they’re our inspiration and guiding light,” Alipe said.
The album starts with a shot, with that first single “Guillotine” – an indelible guitar hook and ferocious drums charge forth as Urbandub’s trademark mix of airtight vocal harmonies.
If you have compiled all Urbandub songs into your own greatest hits album, you probably get the impression of “change.” For a band like them, change is never that good. Urbandub is growing but not changing. They may be going to perform in a bigger arena, but they’ll still going to sweat the same. And still be going to produce the songs like we’ve known them for. “We wanna try to reach out to more people with this album,” says Gabby.
Artist Achievements:
- Album Of The Year, at the NU107 Rock Awards 2004 (Influence)
- Song Of The Year, at the NU107 Rock Awards 2003(Gone)
- Best New Artist, SMB CEBU MUSIC AWARDS 2001.
- MTV Hits Cebu Motorola Alert Artist of 2005.
- Gabby Alipe (Vox) nominated as 2005 Motorola RockMOTO Artist
2006 NU Rock Awards
- Vocalist of the Year- Gabby Alipe
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