JESSE MALIN - Glitter In The Gutter Review

After owning 'The Heat' for some time now, I was really excited about the upcoming album from New York's Jesse Malin. The ex-frontman of D-Generation and Heart Attack has found fame on his own, slow at first but the interest is growing, helped along by the connection with Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong's label Adeline. Saying that the lad has enough well-known friends who appear all over this new album....full text For a guy who's still relatively under-the-radar, Jesse Malin has some big-name cohorts: Bruce Springsteen, Jakob Dylan and Ryan Adams, all of whom appear on Malin's third solo album. But those celeb cameos don't steal the spotlight from Glitter in the Gutter's brawny attack: ragged guitars meeting dabs of roots rock and big choruses, with Malin (mostly) trading his usual tales of down-and-out lowlifes for defiant, anthemic rockers....full text Once on a tour supporting Ryan Adams in 2002, Jesse Malin told a story between songs about his sexual curiosity as an 11-year-old.

Apparently, he was so entranced by the physical act of love, that one day he left his home in Queens, and on foot made his way to the seediest, strangest corners of New York City. Equipped with money, he wished to score a prostitute....full text