Jesse Malin’s rock redemption
From Springsteen to Strummer with Salinger and the cops: Jesse Malin’s rock redemption Jesse Malin and The St. Mark’s Social play Dive (at Brixton). Photo by A.M. Sadler True story: J.D. Salinger helped Jesse Malin get back to his punk rock roots. He also helped him get thrown in jail, where he was bailed out by Bruce Springsteen and YouTube. Last year, Malin was down and out on the Upper East Side, a 41-year-old rock ‘n roller who’d been touring since he was 12 (as the lead singer for the hardcore band Heart Attack) and who suddenly found himself living with his sister and wondering what the hell the point of it all was. He’d seemed on the cusp of some kind of bigtime only back in 2007, when Springsteen sang a duet on Malin’s song “Broken Radio.” But after an album of covers on which Malin paid homage to his roots as a songwriter – ranging from Bad Brains to Jim Croce – his publishing checks diminished and his star swooped in sudden decline. “Just as the world was going broke and the recession was at full tilt and everyone was freaking out, I found myself busted up in New York and starting to think like, well, what should I be doing?” Malin recalled in an interview this week. “I…
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