Jesse Malin
(born January 26, 1968 in Whitestone, Queens, New York, U.S.) is a rock musician. He has played for various bands during their career such as Heart Attack as well as D Generation. He is currently a solo recording artist.
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Biography
Malin began his music career, at the age of 16, as the front-man for the seminal New York City hardcore band
Heart Attack. Following the demise of that band in 1983, Jesse worked on several other projects, including the band Hope, before forming
glam punk band
D Generation, for which he was the lead singer for eight years.
Early on with D Generation, critics quickly dismissed them as "
Johnny Thunders copycats", but after releasing albums they were warmed to. As one of New York City's most noted bands of 1990s, the band released three albums, including
No Lunch
before eventually disbanding in April 1999.
Malin didn't stop writing music and went on to form two other projects, PCP Highway (with former D Generation bandmates
Howie Pyro and Joe Rizzo) and Bellvue (also named Tsing-Tsing for a brief time); the latter band released one album,
To Be Somebody
on Goldenseal Records. The album included versions of songs that would later be reworked for Malin's first two solo albums, including
Solitaire
,
Basement Home
,
Brooklyn
and
Downliner
.
Solo career
Being a fan of
Neil Young,
Tom Waits and
Steve Earle affected his work; he spent the next two years working on a fresh sound. Former
Whiskeytown front-man
Ryan Adams, who'd been a friend of Malin since the D Generation days, was impressed with Malin's new material. Adams offered to produce Malin's debut album despite the fact that he'd never produced a record before. The two headed into
Loho Studios in New York in January 2001 and made an album in just six days. A deal with
Artemis Records soon followed.
The Fine Art of Self Destruction
appeared in the
United Kingdom in October 2002; lead off first single, "Queen of the Underworld" was a moderate hit and the British press quickly hailed Malin's debut as one of the year's best.
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Stateside fans were eventually able to purchase the album "''The Fine Art of Self-Destruction
in January 2003. Tour dates followed, both in America and the United Kingdom. Malin contributed to two cover albums, first he covered "
Hungry Heart" for
Light of Day: A Tribute to
Bruce Springsteen, and then he recorded a cover of The Clash's "Death Or Glory" on the tribute
White Riot Vol. 2: A Tribute to The Clash''. He also picked up a nomination for the
Shortlist Music Prize.
By November 2003 he was back in the studio recording tracks his second album,
The Heat
, which was released in June 2004, accompanied by a string of tour dates on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Malin has also collaborated with Ryan Adams & Johnny T to form the band
The Finger (the pair adopted the pseudonyms "Irving Plaza" and "Warren Peace" respectively) who released two
EPs which were later collected into the album
We Are Fuck You
.
Malin's newest album of original material,
Glitter in the Gutter
was released on March 20, 2007. It also featured a cover of
The Replacements' "Bastards of Young" and a duet with Bruce Springsteen on "Broken Radio." A
music video was also made to accompany "Broken Radio."
Malin released a covers album on 7 April, 2008 entitled
On Your Sleeve
, containing covers of songs by, among others,
The Ramones,
Sam Cooke,
Neil Young and
The Hold Steady, as well as a studio recording of a long-time live favourite,
Fred Neil's "
Everybody's Talkin'."
Malin currently owns two bars in New York's East Village - Niagara and Bowery Electric. He also serves up punk by the slice in his newest project, a Pizza Shop on Avenue A.
Malin will also be a judge for the 9th annual
Independent Music Awards.
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Discography
Solo albums
- 2000: 169
(EP)
- 2002: The Fine Art of Self Destruction
- 2003: The Wendy EP
(EP)
- 2004: The Heat
- 2007: Glitter in the Gutter
- 2008: On Your Sleeve
- 2008: Mercury Retrograde
Solo singles
- 2003: Queen of the Underworld
- 2003: Wendy
- 2003: Happy Holidays 2003
- 2003: Messed Up Here Tonight
- 2004: Mona Lisa
- 2007: "Tomorrow, Tonight"
- 2007: "Don't Let Them Take You Down"
- 2007: "Broken Radio"
- 2008: "In the Modern World"
Collaborations
- 2001: To Be Somebody
(Bellvue)
- 2002: Toxic Lullabies: 1980-1984
(Heart Attack)
- 2002: We Are Fuck You
(The Finger)
References
- Independent Music Awards
- MicControl
- Top40-Charts.com