{"id":32830,"date":"1988-07-19T11:00:00","date_gmt":"1988-07-19T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=32830"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T23:12:42","slug":"matr-jesse-malin-and-bruce-springsteen-queen-of-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/1988\/07\/19\/matr-jesse-malin-and-bruce-springsteen-queen-of-the-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen of the Underworld"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Jesse’s got one of those rare albums out these days that’s really<\/em> an album… it’s got all good songs on it.”\u00a0 — Bruce Springsteen, December 7, 2003
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True enough.<\/p>\n

The Fine Art of Self Destruction<\/em> announced the arrival of Jesse Malin as a solo artist after fronting the punk band D Generation throughout the 1990s.\u00a0With first-time producer Ryan Adams, Jesse recorded the album in a mere six days, but you\u2019d never know it from the final product–hailed by many (including Bruce) as one of the best albums of 2002, a year that also gave us\u00a0The Rising<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fine Art<\/em> was a departure for Malin, although it’s one he telegraphed in his 2001 interim project with PCP Highway,\u00a0To Be Somebody. <\/em>Several songs from that album turned up on his solo debut, but his first single was a new song that kicked off Fine Art:\u00a0<\/em>“Queen of the Underworld.”<\/p>\n