Jesse Malin and His New Band The St. Marks Social Set to Release "LOVE IT TO LIFE" April 27th, 2010

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LOS ANGELES--(Business Wire)--
After three critically acclaimed solo records, dozens of world tours and TV
appearances, Jesse Malin found himself back in New York City questioning his
next move. From his days fronting seminal hardcore trio Heart Attack and
infamous glam punks D Generation, then seven years on the road as a solo artist,
Malin had cultivated a devout fan base. He'd shared stages with everyone from
The White Stripes to Counting Crows, The Hold Steady to Lucinda Williams, but
felt like he was losing the plot.

Malin contemplated going back to school, becoming a standup comedian or a Las
Vegas wedding DJ, and even started work on a documentary film about DC hardcore
Rastafarians The Bad Brains. For over a year he didn't play or record. When
asked by a Hollywood screenwriter to pen songs for a film about author J.D.
Salinger, Malin, a fan of Catcher in the Rye and other Salinger works, traveled
to Cornish, NH hoping to speak to the famous recluse. In typical punk-rock
fashion, instead of getting the interview, Malin landed at the local precinct
for trespassing and was released only after the cops watched his video duet with
Bruce Springsteen for Broken Radio on YouTube and were convinced he was just a
writer doing research. Though he never met Salinger (who passed away this past
January), Malin made the most of the experience by writing "The Archer" and
"Lonely at Heart," two songs that would make him want to work again and become
the basis for his new album.

Over the summer of 2009, in the basement of Avenue A watering hole Hi-Fi, the
songs came forth. Malin, with impresario Don DiLego, drummer Randy Schrager,
guitarist Matt Hogan, and bassist/DJ Tommy USA, worked with his newly formed
band to bash out an album's worth of gritty anthems, and The St. Marks Social
was born. A solid band, but one with an open door to Malin's community of
musician friends - longtime partner in crime Ryan Adams, pop singer Mandy Moore,
fellow label mate Brian Fallon, and former bandmates from D Generation Howie
Pyro and Danny Sage - the Social is a group effort to keep the P.M.A. Says
Malin, "To me, rock n roll is an exorcism that begins every night when the sun
goes down, the music starts playing, and the spirits start flowing. It helps to
say things in public over dirty microphones. It's a way to spit out the poison."

When Jesse met producer Ted Hutt (Lucero, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem)
one drunken night at a local bar, their talk of making a record fast, loose, and
raw was the beginning of Hutt's quest to create a record that would encompass
Malin's roots and evolution from hardcore thrasher to punk/folk
singer-songwriter. The album's basic tracks were laid in three days at
Greenpoint, Brooklyn's Mission Studios, and the rest at Sonic Youth's Think Tank
Studios in Hoboken, NJ. Filled with the characters Malin does best - messengers
and misanthropes, hipsters and hypocrites - and as always, his constant themes
of redemption, nightlife, heartbreak, and survival, LOVE IT TO LIFE, a sentiment
taken from a ticket stub Joe Strummer autographed for Jesse, was built with
desperate optimism that shouts in gang vocals that no matter how bad it gets,
you're never alone.

LOVE IT TO LIFE will be in stores on April 27, 2010. Jesse Malin and The St.
Marks Social will start a residency this month at the Bowery Electric in New
York to get warmed up for a run of dates with label mates Gogol Bordello in
April.

HERE ARE THE TOUR DATES:

w/ GOGOL BORDELLO

April 23rd - Chicago, IL - Congress Theatre
April 24th - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
April 25th - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
April 28th - Boston, MA - House of Blues
April 29th - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
April 30th - Baltimore, MD - Ram's Head Live
May 1st - Philadelphia, PA - The Electric Factory

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