Jesse Malin will be the first to tell you that he owes much of his worldview, musical and otherwise, to Bad Brains singer H.R Now, with H.R. dealing with his own medical issues, Malin is directing fans toward a benefit concert for the singer while also announcing his own new project: the concert film and live album Chasing the Light.
On Friday, Malin previewed Chasing the Light, directed by Dave Stekert, with the release of a live performance of “I & I Survive” featuring H.R.
“H.R. was a childhood mentor of mine,...
On Friday, Malin previewed Chasing the Light, directed by Dave Stekert, with the release of a live performance of “I & I Survive” featuring H.R.
“H.R. was a childhood mentor of mine,...
- 5/3/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Punk rocker Jesse Malin was left paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a rare spinal stroke in May. Now the estate of Joey Ramone is stepping up to auction memorabilia to help aid in Malin’s recovery.
The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund partnered with Joey Ramone’s estate for the auction, which includes items from the late Ramones frontman’s collection of clothes and memorabilia, as donated by Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh.
Some of the pieces include vintage shirts of The Who and Soundgarden that were worn by Joey, as well as crewneck sweatshirts and a vinyl/poster pack. In addition, Malin and Sweet Relief are offering new merchandise that supports the D Generation frontman’s recovery.
The auction announcement was accompanied by a music video for the re-recorded version of Malin’s “The Fine Art of Self Destruction (Lonely Process),” which was included on the expanded, remastered...
The Sweet Relief Musicians Fund partnered with Joey Ramone’s estate for the auction, which includes items from the late Ramones frontman’s collection of clothes and memorabilia, as donated by Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh.
Some of the pieces include vintage shirts of The Who and Soundgarden that were worn by Joey, as well as crewneck sweatshirts and a vinyl/poster pack. In addition, Malin and Sweet Relief are offering new merchandise that supports the D Generation frontman’s recovery.
The auction announcement was accompanied by a music video for the re-recorded version of Malin’s “The Fine Art of Self Destruction (Lonely Process),” which was included on the expanded, remastered...
- 12/11/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
The nights are tough for Jesse Malin. Since suffering a rare spinal stroke in May that left him unable to walk, the New York singer-songwriter regularly awakens, alone, in the pre-dawn hours and asks himself if this is all really happening. He reaches for his legs, which still lack feeling, and struggles to turn himself over. And then the fear comes.
“I have a lot of anxiety and insomnia. Your mind goes into some dark places,” Malin tells Rolling Stone, checking in seven months after he was rushed to the hospital,...
“I have a lot of anxiety and insomnia. Your mind goes into some dark places,” Malin tells Rolling Stone, checking in seven months after he was rushed to the hospital,...
- 12/11/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a wish-you-had-gills type of humid September day in Nashville, but Lucinda Williams is comfortably out of the soup, sitting at the kitchen table of Ray Kennedy’s Room & Board Studio telling tales about life on the road to a gang of touring lifers including Tommy Stinson and Jesse Malin. They’re rare, behind-the-curtain anecdotes, many of which she shares in her superb memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. But in person, hearing them delivered in Williams’ syrupy Southern drawl, they’re especially captivating.
Soon,...
Soon,...
- 7/1/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In the spring of 2021, Lucinda Williams chatted with Rolling Stone about her recovery from a stroke she’d had the previous November that had led to her being unable to play guitar. “The main thing is I can still sing. I’m singing my ass off, so that hasn’t been affected,” she told Rs. “Can’t keep me down for too long.” That spirit animates the Americana legend’s 15th album, Stories From a Rock N Roll Heart, a 10-song collection where Williams celebrates the power of survival by...
- 6/30/2023
- by Maura Johnston
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin has been in a New York hospital bed since suffering a rare spinal stroke in early May. The medical episode left the songwriter paralyzed from the waist down, Malin revealed exclusively to Rolling Stone in an interview earlier this month, but he’s vowed to walk and dance again. In a new video released Thursday morning, the singer thanked fans for their encouraging messages and donations — a Sweet Relief campaign is raising money for Malin’s healthcare. (You can donate here.)
“Even though it’s been 8 weeks, I’m working really hard,...
“Even though it’s been 8 weeks, I’m working really hard,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin, 56, revealed that he was left paralyzed from the waist down after suffering from a spinal stroke last month.
The former D Generation frontman said he was at a dinner when he suffered the stroke. The dinner he attended was in honor of fellow D Generation band member Howie Pyro, who died last year from Covid-19 complications and liver disease.
“Everybody was standing above me like in Rosemary’s Baby, saying all these different things, and I was there not knowing what was going on with my body,” he said after feeling lower back pain that traveled to his heels before eventually collapsing on the floor.
Since the stroke, the vocalist has been living at a New York University rehab center, where he spends his days undergoing physical therapy sessions and “neurological care.”
“This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had,” he told Rolling Stone.
Malin, who...
The former D Generation frontman said he was at a dinner when he suffered the stroke. The dinner he attended was in honor of fellow D Generation band member Howie Pyro, who died last year from Covid-19 complications and liver disease.
“Everybody was standing above me like in Rosemary’s Baby, saying all these different things, and I was there not knowing what was going on with my body,” he said after feeling lower back pain that traveled to his heels before eventually collapsing on the floor.
Since the stroke, the vocalist has been living at a New York University rehab center, where he spends his days undergoing physical therapy sessions and “neurological care.”
“This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had,” he told Rolling Stone.
Malin, who...
- 6/26/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
Rock star Jesse Malin is opening up about his health a month after suffering a rare spinal stroke that has now left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Malin recently recalled the incident that took place on May 4. He said he was having dinner in NYC when he suffered a stroke within the spinal cord that gave him burning pain in his lower back that then transferred to his hips, thighs and heels.
“Everybody was standing above me like in Rosemary’s Baby, saying all these different things, and I was there not knowing what was going on with my body,” Malin told Rolling Stone in an interview.
He continued, “This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had. I’m told that they don’t really understand it, and they’re not sure of the chances. The reports from the doctors have been tough, and there’s moments...
Malin recently recalled the incident that took place on May 4. He said he was having dinner in NYC when he suffered a stroke within the spinal cord that gave him burning pain in his lower back that then transferred to his hips, thighs and heels.
“Everybody was standing above me like in Rosemary’s Baby, saying all these different things, and I was there not knowing what was going on with my body,” Malin told Rolling Stone in an interview.
He continued, “This is the hardest six weeks that I’ve ever had. I’m told that they don’t really understand it, and they’re not sure of the chances. The reports from the doctors have been tough, and there’s moments...
- 6/14/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
D Generation frontman Jesse Malin is currently paralyzed from the waist down after suffering a rare spinal stroke in early May. After keeping his condition under wraps for several weeks, the New York punk legend has opened up about his struggles in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
The 56-year-old Malin, who’s been stage diving and crowd surfing for decades, actually suffered the spinal stroke (also known as a spinal-cord infarction) while out to dinner with friends in New York City’s East Village on May 4th to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the passing of his D Generation bandmate Howie Pyro. He suddenly felt a burning pain that shot down from his lower back to his legs, and collapsed to the floor.
Malin was carried by Murphy’s Law singer Jimmy G to a nearby apartment hallway, where an ambulance came to rush him to the hospital. He...
The 56-year-old Malin, who’s been stage diving and crowd surfing for decades, actually suffered the spinal stroke (also known as a spinal-cord infarction) while out to dinner with friends in New York City’s East Village on May 4th to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the passing of his D Generation bandmate Howie Pyro. He suddenly felt a burning pain that shot down from his lower back to his legs, and collapsed to the floor.
Malin was carried by Murphy’s Law singer Jimmy G to a nearby apartment hallway, where an ambulance came to rush him to the hospital. He...
- 6/14/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
On the last Saturday of March at New York’s Webster Hall, Jesse Malin was doing what he’s done a thousand times before: leaping off the stage and wading through a sold-out crowd toward the back bar, which he climbed atop to lead a singalong of his song “She Don’t Love Me Now.”
Malin’s parting-the-Red-Sea bit with his microphone — he requests two 50-foot cords at every show; “the extra linguine,” he calls it — is a signature of his concerts, and it’s how he wants his fans...
Malin’s parting-the-Red-Sea bit with his microphone — he requests two 50-foot cords at every show; “the extra linguine,” he calls it — is a signature of his concerts, and it’s how he wants his fans...
- 6/14/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Lucinda Williams will welcome this summer with a new album. The revered singer-songwriter’s latest, titled Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart, will arrive June 30 and includes guest appearances by a number of other songwriting luminaries, including Bruce Springsteen, Angel Olsen, and Tommy Stinson. It follows her 2020 release, Good Souls Better Angels.
First up from the album is “New York Comeback,” on which Springsteen and Patty Scialfa add their background vocals to Williams’ melodies. A straightforward rock tune with driving electric guitar and splashes of Hammond organ, it features...
First up from the album is “New York Comeback,” on which Springsteen and Patty Scialfa add their background vocals to Williams’ melodies. A straightforward rock tune with driving electric guitar and splashes of Hammond organ, it features...
- 4/4/2023
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
There’s been a well-deserved resurgence in Warren Zevon’s music of late, 20 years after the songwriter’s death. Billy Joel raved about his work to the L.A. Times in a recent interview, Shooter Jennings devoted two full concerts to playing only Zevon songs, and, in February, Zevon himself was nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.
But Fantastic Cat — a mostly anonymous Americana supergroup whose members prefer to issue press photos wearing feline faces — have been singing Zevon’s praises since their very...
But Fantastic Cat — a mostly anonymous Americana supergroup whose members prefer to issue press photos wearing feline faces — have been singing Zevon’s praises since their very...
- 3/7/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a New York day in the life of Jesse Malin in the songwriter’s new video for “Downliner (Afterglow Version).” Malin makes his bed, brushes his teeth, goes grocery shopping, folds his rock & roll T-shirts, and even wraps a gift as the melancholy ballad plays behind him. Captivating stuff, right? While on the surface, the actions depicted in the clip, directed by Dave Stekert, seem trite, they work to center one’s daily existence in mindfulness. It’s all very Buddhist.
“When I feel like I’m going...
“When I feel like I’m going...
- 2/10/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin takes a page out of Taylor Swift’s book and re-records his 2003 solo debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. Due Feb. 17 on the Mnrk Heavy label, the updated version of the LP features fresh versions of fan favorites like “Riding on the Subway,” “Downliner,” and “High Lonesome.” Some, like “Brooklyn,” have been retitled as well: Malin premieres a video for “Brooklyn (Walt Whitman in the Trash)” today.
Directed by Malin’s longtime bass player Cat Popper and photographer Vivian Wang, the video finds the Lower East Side...
Directed by Malin’s longtime bass player Cat Popper and photographer Vivian Wang, the video finds the Lower East Side...
- 11/4/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In 2007, Bruce Springsteen joined Jesse Malin for the duet “Broken Radio,” a bittersweet song about memories made and lost through the FM dial. Since then, the New Jersey/New York collab has never appeared on streaming: Glitter in the Gutter, the album on which it first appeared, went out of print. On Wednesday, Malin announced that the “lost” record, his third solo LP, will be reissued in a remastered and expanded edition via Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records. Ahead of Glitter in the Gutter’s Sept. 30 release, an...
- 8/17/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“Nightclubbing,” the first-ever documentary about the legendary New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City, which from 1965 through 1981 was a hotbed for the city’s rock, glam, punk and new wave scenes, has announced a series of screenings across the globe in July and August.
The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.
“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...
The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.
“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...
- 6/22/2022
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Howie Pyro, a founding member of New York City punk band D Generation, pioneering party DJ, and avid collector of music and movie ephemera, died Wednesday. He was 61. Pyro had undergone a liver transplant last year and was recovering in a Los Angeles hospital. Jesse Malin, Pyro’s friend and bandmate in D Generation, confirmed his death from Covid-related pneumonia following a long battle with liver disease.
Pyro was an integral yet unassuming fixture of New York’s gritty punk scene in the Seventies and Eighties, part groundbreaking artist and part observer.
Pyro was an integral yet unassuming fixture of New York’s gritty punk scene in the Seventies and Eighties, part groundbreaking artist and part observer.
- 5/5/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin sang about a “gypsy playing his nylon-string guitar” in his 2010 barnstormer and live-show staple “All the Way From Moscow,” a song about touring his way back to New York. The gypsy in question was the Ukrainian-born singer of Gogol Bordello, Eugene Hütz, who reunites with Malin for a cover of the Pogues’ “If I Should Fall From Grace With God” to benefit the people of Ukraine during Vladimir Putin’s assault on their country.
Released Friday via Velvet Elk Records, “If I Should Fall From Grace With God...
Released Friday via Velvet Elk Records, “If I Should Fall From Grace With God...
- 4/29/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
One of the most high-profile benefit shows held to date in support of Ukraine took place in New York last night. Taking place at City Winery’s Manhattan location, the event featured performances by Gogol Bordello (whose leader, Eugene Hütz, was born in Ukraine), Patti Smith, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, Suzanne Vega, Magnetic Fields auteur Stephin Merritt, reggae vet Matisyahu, Jesse Malin, O.A.R.’s Marc Roberge, and indie singer-songwriter Lady Lamb, all showing up to raise funds for financial and humanitarian relief in the embattled nation.
- 3/11/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
From Broadway stages to small clubs, concerts in New York City are being postponed or called off as Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise.
On Friday, Dec. 17, New York reported 21,027 new positive Covid-19 cases, while the number of hospitalizations in the state jumped to 3,839. While that was the highest new case rate since last January, the hospitalization numbers remain significantly low compared to the over 15,000 people hospitalized when the virus hit its verst peak in April 2020.
Nevertheless, several venues, Broadway shows and even the Rockettes have decided not to take...
On Friday, Dec. 17, New York reported 21,027 new positive Covid-19 cases, while the number of hospitalizations in the state jumped to 3,839. While that was the highest new case rate since last January, the hospitalization numbers remain significantly low compared to the over 15,000 people hospitalized when the virus hit its verst peak in April 2020.
Nevertheless, several venues, Broadway shows and even the Rockettes have decided not to take...
- 12/17/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
With an average of more than 8,300 positive cases reported each day, Tennessee held the ignominious distinction last week of leading the United States in new Covid-19 cases per capita. Yet this week thousands of music fans and more than 200 performing artists are expected in Nashville for the Americana Music Festival and Conference, a weeklong celebration of roots music presented each September by the Americana Music Association.
While the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, live showcases by established stars, and Q&As with genre A-listers like Brandi Carlile top the schedules of many attendees,...
While the Americana Honors & Awards ceremony, live showcases by established stars, and Q&As with genre A-listers like Brandi Carlile top the schedules of many attendees,...
- 9/22/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out our most recent list.)
Caleb Lee Hutchinson, “Slot Machine Syndrome”
American Idol season 16 runner-up Caleb Lee Hutchinson recorded his new EP Slot Machine Syndrome with Brent Cobb, and it arrives September 17th. The project’s title track shows a more grown-up,...
Caleb Lee Hutchinson, “Slot Machine Syndrome”
American Idol season 16 runner-up Caleb Lee Hutchinson recorded his new EP Slot Machine Syndrome with Brent Cobb, and it arrives September 17th. The project’s title track shows a more grown-up,...
- 8/16/2021
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin may not drive much in his Lower East Side stomping grounds, but the New York City songwriter often puts his listeners in the passenger seat. Onstage he tells a story about riding around as a kid with his absentee father, swerving around drunks in the street who, his dad said, “had too many sodas.” And he can write a book about his early days driving a moving van for the Manhattan elite. Malin returns to the car in his new song “State of the Art,” an upbeat roots-rock...
- 7/12/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon, Mickey Dolenz, and more will perform an Adam Schlesinger tribute concert on May 5th.
Held virtually with performances filmed at New York City’s Bowery Electric, the show will feature musicians covering songs from the late Fountains of Wayne frontman’s catalogue. Patrick Carney, Peter Buck, James Iha, Mike Viola, Taylor Hanson, Ben Lee, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre, and more will appear.
Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter,...
Held virtually with performances filmed at New York City’s Bowery Electric, the show will feature musicians covering songs from the late Fountains of Wayne frontman’s catalogue. Patrick Carney, Peter Buck, James Iha, Mike Viola, Taylor Hanson, Ben Lee, Jesse Malin, Nicole Atkins, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba, Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Pierre, and more will appear.
Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
The late rocker and TV/theater composer Adam Schlesinger, who died from complications of Covid-19 in April 2020, will be feted by dozens of musicians and actors in May in an online tribute being produced by Jody Porter, his longtime bandmate in Fountains of Wayne.
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Since the release of his 2019 album Sunset Kids, Jesse Malin has been on a prolific creative streak, one that only increased during the pandemic with his popular you-are-there livestreams and the release of one-off singles like “Todd Youth.”
On Friday, the New York City songwriter announced a new album with the song and music video “The Way We Used to Roll.” The track has its own heartbeat and aims to pump life back into a live music scene that mostly sat dormant for a full year. As on Sunset Kids,...
On Friday, the New York City songwriter announced a new album with the song and music video “The Way We Used to Roll.” The track has its own heartbeat and aims to pump life back into a live music scene that mostly sat dormant for a full year. As on Sunset Kids,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen has officially been added to the Light of Day Foundation’s Winter Love Fest 2021 lineup, a virtual concert taking place between February 12th and February 14th. He will play with Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers on February 13th.
Steve Van Zandt and the Disciples of Soul have also been added to the bill. They will play on February 14th, marking their first Light of Day appearance in the two-decade history of the event.
Springsteen and Van Zandt join a lineup that includes Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Willie Nile,...
Steve Van Zandt and the Disciples of Soul have also been added to the bill. They will play on February 14th, marking their first Light of Day appearance in the two-decade history of the event.
Springsteen and Van Zandt join a lineup that includes Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Willie Nile,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts have dropped previously unreleased live shows via the streaming platform Nugs.net.
Jett kicked off the partnership with three concerts spanning her 40-year career: a show from Houston, Texas, in 1983; a Columbus, Ohio, concert from 2015; and a 2018 show that took place at Hellfest in Clisson, France. All three shows were released on audio and video, which you can subscribe here to access.
Jett and her band will perform at next month’s virtual Light of Day benefit concert alongside Jesse Malin, Low Cut Connie, Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers,...
Jett kicked off the partnership with three concerts spanning her 40-year career: a show from Houston, Texas, in 1983; a Columbus, Ohio, concert from 2015; and a 2018 show that took place at Hellfest in Clisson, France. All three shows were released on audio and video, which you can subscribe here to access.
Jett and her band will perform at next month’s virtual Light of Day benefit concert alongside Jesse Malin, Low Cut Connie, Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Light of Day, the beloved Asbury Park benefit that takes place each January, is going virtual this year with a three-day festival next month.
Taking place from February 12th through the 14th, Light of Day’s Winter Love Fest boasts a lineup of over 60 artists that include Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Jesse Malin, and Low Cut Connie. Long-time Light of Day supporters like Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, Willie Nile, Joe D’Urso and Stone Caravan, and more are set to appear.
The event will also celebrate the birthday of Bob Benjamin,...
Taking place from February 12th through the 14th, Light of Day’s Winter Love Fest boasts a lineup of over 60 artists that include Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Jesse Malin, and Low Cut Connie. Long-time Light of Day supporters like Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, Willie Nile, Joe D’Urso and Stone Caravan, and more are set to appear.
The event will also celebrate the birthday of Bob Benjamin,...
- 1/27/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Cat Popper, the in-demand New York City bass player and member of the trio Puss N Boots with Norah Jones and Sasha Dobson, wants you to know that whatever you’re feeling right now is just fine. Anguished in the 21st century? Happy in a pandemic? It’s all Ok.
Popper writes as much in her lilting new song “Maybe It’s All Right,” the first song — like, ever — that the musician has written in her 25-year career. The song arrives Wednesday with a video, directed by Vivian Wang, that...
Popper writes as much in her lilting new song “Maybe It’s All Right,” the first song — like, ever — that the musician has written in her 25-year career. The song arrives Wednesday with a video, directed by Vivian Wang, that...
- 11/18/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin asks if you’re better off now than you were four years ago in his new protest song “Ameri’ka,” a soft but hard-hitting ballad that takes stock of our current nightmare.
“Adam got the virus like when Reagan was in charge/history repeats itself, the killers are in charge,” he sings, pointing out just who exactly has sacrificed to build this country. “No purple mountain majesty or amber waves of grain/this land was made for you and me from someone else’s pain.”
“President Donald Trump has been an arrogant,...
“Adam got the virus like when Reagan was in charge/history repeats itself, the killers are in charge,” he sings, pointing out just who exactly has sacrificed to build this country. “No purple mountain majesty or amber waves of grain/this land was made for you and me from someone else’s pain.”
“President Donald Trump has been an arrogant,...
- 10/28/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin’s regular livestream series The Fine Art of Self Distancing has been a high-motion standout in a sea of mostly cement-shoed virtual concerts. While there’s no actual fans present, the gigs find the New York songwriter playing with his full band in a real live rock club — the Bowery Electric in the East Village — and the energy is palpable. On Thursday, Malin released a video that captures the vibe of his livestreams, a cover of Lou Reed’s “Sally Can’t Dance” at the Bowery Electric that...
- 9/24/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“If I can’t make it out of this ditch/I better make a home of it,” Dave Hause sings in his song “The Ditch” off his 2019 album, Kick. It’s a school of thought I’ve been trying to adopt since 2020’s pandemic plotline went off the rails. If this mess isn’t going to end anytime soon — and thanks to good ol’ American dysfunction, that seems to be the case — we have to adapt to living in the ditch.
But that doesn’t mean resignation. Instead, it’s about evolution.
But that doesn’t mean resignation. Instead, it’s about evolution.
- 8/29/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin pays tribute to his late friend and bandmate Todd Youth in the new music video for the song of the same name, filmed in New York during the coronavirus pandemic.
Youth was a pioneering guitarist in the New York hardcore scene, performing with Murphy’s Law, Agnostic Front, Warzone, Glen Campbell, Danzig, H.R., Ace Frehley, Motörhead, Cheap Trick and with Malin in the Saint Mark’s Social and D Generation. When he died in 2018, his ashes were placed beneath the Hare Krishna Tree in the East Village’s Tompkins Square Park.
Youth was a pioneering guitarist in the New York hardcore scene, performing with Murphy’s Law, Agnostic Front, Warzone, Glen Campbell, Danzig, H.R., Ace Frehley, Motörhead, Cheap Trick and with Malin in the Saint Mark’s Social and D Generation. When he died in 2018, his ashes were placed beneath the Hare Krishna Tree in the East Village’s Tompkins Square Park.
- 8/26/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Tom Morello, Bob Weir and Jesse Malin and Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen were among the artists who covered the Clash classics as part of a livestream event celebrating what would have been Joe Strummer’s 68th birthday Friday.
“A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer” also featured performances by Jeff Tweedy, the Hold Steady, Lucinda Williams, Hinds, Josh Klinghoffer and Cherry Glazerr, as well as birthday messages from Beto O’Rourke, Fred Armisen, Strummer’s Mystery Train director Jim Jarmusch and co-star Steve Buscemi,...
“A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer” also featured performances by Jeff Tweedy, the Hold Steady, Lucinda Williams, Hinds, Josh Klinghoffer and Cherry Glazerr, as well as birthday messages from Beto O’Rourke, Fred Armisen, Strummer’s Mystery Train director Jim Jarmusch and co-star Steve Buscemi,...
- 8/22/2020
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Weir and Lucinda Williams will help celebrate Joe Strummer’s birthday during a special livestream tribute/charity event August 21st, starting at 3 p.m. Et.
A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer was organized and produced by NYC musician/bar owner Jesse Malin, radio DJ Jeff Raspe and Strummer estate manager David Zonshine. The two-hour show will stream for free on Strummer’s website and YouTube page, and all donations collected will benefit Save Our Stages, an organization helping independent venues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer was organized and produced by NYC musician/bar owner Jesse Malin, radio DJ Jeff Raspe and Strummer estate manager David Zonshine. The two-hour show will stream for free on Strummer’s website and YouTube page, and all donations collected will benefit Save Our Stages, an organization helping independent venues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- 8/18/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
On Saturday, August 15th, Morrison Hotel Gallery and its partners are proud to present (De)Tour, a daylong charity music festival featuring an all-star lineup of artists working in association with MusiCares®, National Independent Venue Association (Niva), and Spotify in support of fellow artists, crew members, and independent venues and promoters.
When the coronavirus pandemic struck – pressing pause on all live tours and concerts and putting many touring artists and crew members out of work – the gallery went to work to forge a new kind of virtual show for these extraordinary times.
(De)Tour promises to be a show like no other. Featuring performances by iconic artists including Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen and The Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl,...
When the coronavirus pandemic struck – pressing pause on all live tours and concerts and putting many touring artists and crew members out of work – the gallery went to work to forge a new kind of virtual show for these extraordinary times.
(De)Tour promises to be a show like no other. Featuring performances by iconic artists including Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen and The Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl,...
- 8/10/2020
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Morrison Hotel Gallery and Rolling Live Studios will be hosting (De)Tour, a day-long virtual charity festival in association with MusiCares and Niva, on Saturday, August 15th.
The lineup for the virtual event includes performances by Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen, Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl, David Ramirez, Al Barr, Eve Monsees, Scream, Haley Reinhart, Joseph Arthur, Kathy Valentine,...
The lineup for the virtual event includes performances by Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen, Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl, David Ramirez, Al Barr, Eve Monsees, Scream, Haley Reinhart, Joseph Arthur, Kathy Valentine,...
- 8/10/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin is a New York City staple, as ubiquitous as a Duane Reade. But the solo artist and member of bands like D Generation and Heart Attack also quietly co-owns and operates a number of bars in the city. As such, he’s seen firsthand the financial, cultural, and human toll that the pandemic is having on New York’s bar and live-music culture. To help cover costs at his businesses, as well as pay his band and crew, Malin has been performing weekly full-band livestreams from his club Bowery Electric; on Thursday,...
- 7/9/2020
- by Jesse Malin
- Rollingstone.com
Bank Robber Music and Rough Trade Publishing have announced Talk – Action = Zero, a compilation album in honor of black victims of police brutality. The compilation will be released Friday, June 5th on Bandcamp, on the same day that the platform will be waiving all of its revenue shares to directly benefit artists and labels.
All proceeds from Talk – Action = Zero will go toward the Black Visions Collective, a Minnesota-based organization that aims to develop black leadership and community in the state. Unreleased music from Phantogram, Jesse Malin, Jay Watts, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf,...
All proceeds from Talk – Action = Zero will go toward the Black Visions Collective, a Minnesota-based organization that aims to develop black leadership and community in the state. Unreleased music from Phantogram, Jesse Malin, Jay Watts, Matthew Caws of Nada Surf,...
- 6/4/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
One of the highlights of Jesse Malin’s quarantined livestream series, The Fine Art of Self-Distancing, has been his cover of Tom Petty’s “Crawling Back to You,” a track off of Petty’s 1994 LP, Wildflowers. Malin saw Petty perform the song at the Hollywood Bowl in 2017 — at what would be Petty’s final show.
“I’d seen him before, but this was like magic,” Malin told Rolling Stone during an interview for his latest album, Sunset Kids. “That night under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, he went into ‘Crawling Back to You,...
“I’d seen him before, but this was like magic,” Malin told Rolling Stone during an interview for his latest album, Sunset Kids. “That night under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, he went into ‘Crawling Back to You,...
- 5/21/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Lucinda Williams isn’t into appointment songwriting. She stays up late, wakes up even later, and writes when the spirit moves her. She also holds on to everything: a possible lyric scribbled on a piece of paper here, a song title in a notebook there. Williams turned 67 in January, moved from L.A. to Nashville, and finally got organized.
“I put them all into files and named each one,” says Williams, calling from her new house in Nashville, which she shares with her husband, collaborator, and manager, Tom Overby. “I...
“I put them all into files and named each one,” says Williams, calling from her new house in Nashville, which she shares with her husband, collaborator, and manager, Tom Overby. “I...
- 5/11/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
One of the high points of Jesse Malin’s latest album Sunset Kids is his duet with Lucinda Williams, “Dead On.” Williams produced the album with her husband-manager Tom Overby and lends her harmonies and songwriting to a number of tracks, but it’s “Dead On” that stands as the LP’s proper duet.
A gritty, scuzzed-up guitar number, it’s reflective of the vibe on Williams’ own upcoming album, Good Souls Better Angels, out Friday. “Recording ‘Dead On’ with Lucinda was one of the funnest and loosest parts of making the Sunset Kids album,...
A gritty, scuzzed-up guitar number, it’s reflective of the vibe on Williams’ own upcoming album, Good Souls Better Angels, out Friday. “Recording ‘Dead On’ with Lucinda was one of the funnest and loosest parts of making the Sunset Kids album,...
- 4/22/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin played his last live show before entering this quarantined life on March 13th in London. “The crowd was so good, I said to the band, ‘We’re going to leave some blood on this stage because we may not be back for a while,'” he says, calling from his apartment in the East Village. “We wanted to make it matter.” Since then, he’s been doing his best to stay creative, working on the follow-up to last year’s well-received Sunset Kids, co-produced by Lucinda Williams, and...
- 4/15/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Jesse Malin was supposed to be onstage at the U.K.’s massive Glastonbury festival this year. Instead, he’s doing solo shows every Saturday in his East Village apartment, trying to raise money for his band and crew whose incomes have taken a beating by the coronavirus pandemic. For the meantime, he’s doing Ok himself — his last album, Sunset Kids, was well-received and earned him a busy year of live dates and radio play. But he’s coming to terms with the reality that he may soon be...
- 4/10/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues and millions remain quarantined around the globe, more and more musicians have joined the streaming trend — performing live from their couches, kitchens, and even bathrooms — while consoling fans. Even classic bands like the Grateful Dead are streaming archival concerts, reminding listeners of a time when we weren’t so full of uncertainty and fear. From David Gilmour to Residente, here’s a new list of the best streamed performances from the stay-at-home era.
Grateful Dead
Starting Friday, the Dead will kick off a weekly streaming series on their YouTube channel,...
Grateful Dead
Starting Friday, the Dead will kick off a weekly streaming series on their YouTube channel,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Angie Martoccio, Joseph Hudak, Kory Grow, Suzy Exposito and Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Last week’s fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise featured no less than four eclectic guitar pulls, culminating with an all-star final night lineup of Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams, Raul Malo of the Mavericks, and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar.
Each artist sang three songs, including new material from Williams (“Big Black Train,” the Trump-skewering “Man Without a Soul”) and Earle (“The Mine”), who also paid tribute to late songwriter David Olney with a rendition of his “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.”
The writers round concluded with a sing-along of “This Land Is Your Land,...
Each artist sang three songs, including new material from Williams (“Big Black Train,” the Trump-skewering “Man Without a Soul”) and Earle (“The Mine”), who also paid tribute to late songwriter David Olney with a rendition of his “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.”
The writers round concluded with a sing-along of “This Land Is Your Land,...
- 2/7/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“You can only guess who that might be about,” Lucinda Williams said after a scorching performance of her new song “Man Without a Soul” aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise last week. A droning, guitar-driven track, the song doesn’t mention its subject directly, but as Williams alluded, it’s impossible to not pin the lyrics to the impeached President Trump.
“You bring nothing good to this world, beyond a web of cheating and stealing/you hide behind your wall of lies, but it’s coming down/yeah, it’s coming down,...
“You bring nothing good to this world, beyond a web of cheating and stealing/you hide behind your wall of lies, but it’s coming down/yeah, it’s coming down,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Up until late Saturday afternoon, the odds of Bruce Springsteen showing up at the annual Asbury Park charity concert Light of Day seemed pretty miniscule. He was a regular (unannounced) guest at the show – which raises money to fight Parkinson’s Disease – most every year from its inception in 2000 through 2015, but he missed the past four consecutive shows. This year, he was booked to host an equestrian event in Wellington, Florida 24 hours before the start of the Light of Day festivities. Making matters worse, a winter storm just happened to...
- 1/19/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Just before Christmas, Jesse Malin and Lucinda Williams teamed up to perform Malin’s latest album Sunset Kids in its entirety at a concert at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Williams co-produced the album with Tom Overby and the performance marked the first time that the Americana queen and Malin, a fixture on the New York rock and punk scene, played the LP in full.
Despite the late night — the gig spanned 26 songs in full, including Williams’ “Drunken Angel” and “Changed the Locks” — Malin and Williams reunited early the next...
Despite the late night — the gig spanned 26 songs in full, including Williams’ “Drunken Angel” and “Changed the Locks” — Malin and Williams reunited early the next...
- 12/28/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
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