Doors 7PM | Show 8PM | 21and Over JESSE MALIN — whom the London
Times says “writes vivid songs with killer tunes and sings them with
scary conviction” — and Lucinda Williams — the southern
troubadour once named “America’s best songwriter” by Time
magazine — first met in the early 2000s at a jazz club in NYC’s
West Village. In a joint 2017 Rolling Stone interview, the two
discussed their “shared love of miscreants, misfits, the
misunderstood and the mysteries of everyday lives binds them across
the Mason-Dixon line.” “From the early frontier days of hardcore
in New York to all the punk rock and singer/songwriter touring,”
says MALIN, “it’s all been about survival and reinvention. I
wanted to make an open-sounding record with the space to tell these
stories. I like to write about characters and people I meet along the
way. The dreamers, schemers, hustlers, romantics, lovers, leavers and
believers.” Many of the dreamers, schemers and so on from JESSE’s
own life contribute to Sunset Kids, his new album of highly personal
songs being released August 30 on Wicked Cool Records. Sunset Kids
first took shape at The Hollywood Bowl, when JESSE ACCEPTED
LUCINDA’s invitation to see her open for what turned out to be Tom
Petty and The Heartbreakers’ final concert. The bittersweet
experience inspired one of the new album’s highlights, “Shining
Down,” a rainy day jangle about “keeping alive the spirits of the
ones we’ve lost.” During that same visit, the idea came about of
three-time Grammy-winning Lucinda producing JESSE’s next record.
“Lucinda has a great eye for finding the beauty in broken things and
a knack for always picking the right take. Once she started dancing in
the control room, we knew we had it.” In addition to this rare turn
in the producer’s chair for Williams, she co-wrote and sang on the
evocative Country-flavored “Room 13,” which MALIN CALLS “the
heart of the record in a lot of ways, about those meditative moments
far away from home, where you’re forced to reflect on the things
that really matter.” The album also features “Chemical Heart,”
an upbeat pop basher located at a mythical point on Queens Boulevard
where Paul Simon and The Ramones intersect, namechecking Bernie Taupin
and Jake LaMotta among others. “Shane” is a gentle ballad about
one of his heroes, the lovably shambolic Shane MacGowan of The Pogues.
“My first album, The Fine Art Of Self-Destruction, was about finding
glory in the wreckage,” says MALIN OF THE ALBUM WHICH WAS UPON
RELEASE UNCUT’s “Album of the Month.” “Sunset Kids is about
owning it. The failures, the victories, the moments. And moving up
from there.” After reflecting on his life while walking the streets
of London, jamming riffs in an East Village basement and writing songs
in Florida hotel rooms while visiting his ailing father, the ambitious
14-song album was recorded on both coasts between the two artists’
touring schedules. It opens with the pre-apocalyptic confession
“Meet Me At The End Of The World Again,” which includes backing
vocals by MALIN CONFIDANTE AND COLLABORATOR JOSEPH ARTHUR. Another key
guest contribution comes courtesy of Green Day’s Billie Joe
Armstrong, who co-wrote and sang on “Strangers & Thieves.”
“Billie Joe was in town and I showed him where we hung out when we
were kids in the hardcore days,” MALIN RECALLS. “A couple days
later, I got a text and he had finished the song. He went into the
details of his experience in the Bay Area with that scene, and also my
experiences, which were very parallel in New York.” Those early days
found a young JESSE “riding the subway trains from Queens to the
record stores and nightclubs in dirty, pre-Disney New York City” and
never looking back. His band Heart Attack put out the first New York
hardcore single “God Is Dead” when MALIN WAS 14 YEARS OLD. He
later went on to acclaim as the frontman for the fast and loud D
Generation, whose albums were produced by Ric Ocasek, Tony Visconti
and David Bianco. Bianco is one of the Sunset Kids referenced in the
album’s title. The engineer who won a Grammy for his pristine sonics
on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers and produced the first major-label
release of JESSE’s career passed away suddenly after overseeing the
initial sessions for Sunset Kids in his L.A. studio. “Playing music
is something I need to do. Singing under those hot lights every night
is a great exorcism. We get to put together this pirate ship of
characters and go around the world making trouble and singing our guts
out.” As the line in crucial cut “When You’re Young” says,
“Don’t waste your life on things that don’t get better.” MALIN
CONCLUDES: “It’s about finding ways to survive and navigate
through all this stuff. Being compassionate and loving in a world that
will break your heart. But you’re still here. You wake up again and
put one foot in front of the other and live every day like it could be
your last.” JOSEPH ARTHUR ... July 29, 2019 – It’s been three
years since JOSEPH ARTHUR HAS RELEASED A BRAND-new solo album, and
with the upcoming release of Come Back World (October 11th) he’s
crafted his most personal and powerful album to date. “The
interesting parts of our stories aren’t the famous people we
meet,” ARTHUR REMARKED. Or the times when everything is basically
working. Or when we get to lay in comfort with a partner watching
Netflix and the world go by. The interesting parts are when all those
things break down and you’re left in isolation to finally deal with
the roots of whatever had been thwarting your existence all along. The
interesting parts are when the world has turned its back on you and
you have turned your back on it or them. When darkness could seemingly
swallow you whole if it hasn’t already. When there is no such thing
as hope and so you manufacture it from a dream which only angle is to
survive. Come Back World is an album about rebirth and survival.”
The title track “Come Back World” will be available on all major
streaming services beginning this Friday August 2nd. The album is
available immediately for pre-order at JOSEPH ARTHUR’s website:
http://josepharthur.com [http://josepharthur.com] Produced by JOSEPH
ARTHUR AND CHRIS SEEFRIED, the upcoming release features several other
amazing artists including: Ben Harper, Patrick Carney, JESSE MALIN AND
GREG DULLI. JOSEPH ARTHUR WILL EMBARK ON A SOLO TOUR RIGHT ON TOP OF
THE RELEASE DATE BEGINNING IN KANSAS CITY ON OCTOBER 4TH. For many of
these upcoming shows, he’ll be joined by JESSE MALIN WHO WILL CO-
headline. Tickets for all shows will go on sale this Friday. Over the
course of his career to date, JOSEPH HAS RELEASED FOURTEEN ALBUMS
UNDER HIS OWN NAME, eleven official EP’s and has been involved with
several high-profile side projects including last year’s
collaboration with Peter Buck under the name ARTHUR BUCK, Fistful Of
Mercy (with Ben Harper & Dhani Harrison), and RDNM with Jeff Ament and
Richard Stuverud. Recently JOSEPH ARTHUR ALSO LAUNCHED A NEW PODCAST
CALLED “Come To Where I’m From” which to date has featured
celebrities, comedians and musician from across the board. Recent
guests include, Rosanna Arquette, Mark Lanegan, Todd Barry, Keith
Morris and Joan Osborne to name a few. The podcast is available in
both audio form everywhere Podcasts are found (iTunes, Spotify and
Google podcasts) as well as multi-camera Video format on YouTube, with
new episodes launching twice a week. All episodes can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/josepharthurofficial
[https://www.youtube.com/user/josepharthurofficial]
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