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Jesse Malin : biography

January 26, 1968 –

Jesse Malin (born January 26, 1968 in Flushing, Queens, New York, U.S.) is a rock musician. He has played with Heart Attack band members:Javier Madariaga-drums, Paul Praver-base and D Generation. He is currently a solo recording artist.

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
  • 2007: Love It To Life ("official bootleg" live album) – not the 2010 studio release
  • 2008: On Your Sleeve
  • 2008: Mercury Retrograde
  • 2010: Love It to Life

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)
  • 2007: Broken Radio (Bruce Springsteen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMBIUrdcFDQ&feature=fvsr
  • 2010: Depression times (Green Day)

Biography

Malin began his music career, at the age of 12, as the front-man for the seminal New York City hardcore band Heart Attack. Following the demise of that band in 1984, Jesse worked on several other projects, including the band Hope, before joining glam punk band D Generation for which he was the lead singer for eight years. As one of New York City’s most noted bands of 1990s, D Generation released three albums, including No Lunch before eventually disbanding in April 1999.http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/malin_jesse/bio.jhtml

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.http://www.jessemalin.co.uk/jesse_biography.htm

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.

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.