Jimmy Urine


James Euringer, known professionally as Jimmy Urine, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and programmer of electropunk band Mindless Self Indulgence.

Early life

James Euringer was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from a Catholic high school. He went to art school, but subsequently dropped out.

Career

Mindless Self Indulgence

Before starting Mindless Self Indulgence, Urine worked with his brother Markus Euringer, releasing an album titled Mindless Self-Indulgence. The brothers became the founding members of Mindless Self Indulgence and soon found guitarist Steve Montano and drummer Jennifer Dunn. The brothers released a second album, Crappy Little Demo, before Markus left the group. Markus was replaced by bassist Vanessa Y.T., who was subsequently replaced by bassist Lindsey Way.

Side projects

Urine has also taken on a musical side project, a collaboration with Steve, Righ?. They created a 39-track album under the name The Left Rights. The Left Rights have also released a second album titled Bad Choices Made Easy. Urine is also a composer for the video game Lollipop Chainsaw, where he also voices the character Zed. In 2018, Urine and Serj Tankian were announced to be collaborating on an album titled Fuktronic, which was released on May 8th, 2020. In 2018, Urine announced the release of a self-titled record for October 2018 under his surname, Euringer. The album features appearances from Gerard Way, Chantal Claret, Serj Tankian and Grimes.

Remixes

Urine has done remixes for Devo, Grimes, Deep Forest, KoRn, Serj Tankian, Insane in the Brain, and Serart. He has been known to completely restructure the songs he remixes as well add his own vocal parts. He also produced the original version of "Revolution" by Aimee Allen.

Film

Urine provided the voice for The Body in M Dot Strange's 2012 animated film Heart String Marionette. He also appears in Darren Lynn Bousman's Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival, alongside his wife as Translator Batez. Urine played a Ravager named Half-Nut in director James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. He also wrote a song for the film "Un Deye Gon Hayd " which is heard during the scene on the planet Contraxia. The song does not appear on the soundtrack album for the movie, but it is credited. In 2017, a video of "Un Deye Gon Hayd" was uploaded on YouTube.

Personal life

Euringer married Chantal Claret, lead singer of Morningwood, on January 18, 2008.
In 2018, the couple relocated from Los Angeles to New Zealand.
On January 29, 2019, both Euringer and Claret announced via Instagram that Claret was pregnant with twin girls. On June 23, 2019, Claret gave birth to Georgie and Isadora Euringer.

Discography

As Jimmy Urine