Alejandro Escovedo will release his 11th solo album Big Station, June 5th, 2012 on Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group. Produced by Tony Visconti, Big Station finds the ever-evolving Texas rocker highly-charged with spirit and purpose. The album's hard snap and sharp arrangements recall much of the great music Escvovedo absorbed as it blasted out of AM and FM radios throughout the 60's and 70's. Largely co-written with frequent collaborator Chuck Prophet, the album's 12 songs bristle with tension and hope as Escovedo fights to keep faith in a changing world and hold onto love.

Big Station follows Escovedo's 2010's critically lauded Street Songs of Love, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart and earned rave reviews from Rolling Stone, The NY Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, and many more. Earlier this month, Escovedo took SXSW by storm with a slew of stellar performances including two appearances with Bruce Springsteen.

Escovedo, undeniably on the short list of celebrated Texas songsmiths, brings the entirety of his hard-won poetic gift to Big Station's 12 songs. He artfully chronicle's his hometown and own personal decline in "Bottom of the World," saying "Austin's changed, it's true/Show me what hasn't" as he watches "the cities of the world reduced to ashes" on television. Similarly, on the ultra danceable pop number "Party People" he intones, "One time I knew just how to get around knew all the secrets in this dirty town."

The evocative "Sally Was a Cop," vividly wound together by a single muted trumpet, paints a grim portrait of Mexico's violent drug wars and political corruption. "Seems like everybody's trying to sell me something I don't need," Escovedo sings on the whole-hearted, exquisitely melodic "San Antonio Rain," adding "But the last thing I need is something that'll dull my pain." The super-punchy "Common Mistake" primed with crackling horns and Joe Jackson-like staccato is existential new wave fun of the highest order.

Salvation is found in Escovedo's wide and deep roots. He looks to the sacrifice of his parents for strength on "Can't Make Me Run," and he closes the album with his first ever recording in Spanish: "Sabor a Mi." Written by the late Mexican composer Alvaro Carrillo in 1959, the song's title translates as "Be True To Me."

Stay tuned for tour dates to be announced soon.

Big Station Track listing:
1. Man Of The World
2. Big Station
3. Sally Was A Cop
4. Bottom Of The World
5. Can't Make Me Run
6. San Antonio Rain
7. Headstrong Crazy Fools
8. Common Mistake
9. Never Stood A Chance
10. Party People
11. Too Many Tears
12. Sabor A Mi

Alejandro Escovedo on the Web:
http://www.alejandroescovedo.com
http://www.facebook.com/alejandroescovedo
http://www.twitter.com/alescovedo

For more information on Alejandro Escovedo, please contact:
Carrie Tolles (ctolle@shorefire.com),
Anthony D'Amato (adamato@shorefire.com),
or Matt Hanks (mhanks@shorefire.com) at Shore Fire Media, 718.522.7171

And Joel Amsterdam (joel.amsterdam@concordrecords.com)
at Fantasy Records/Concord, 310-385-4206

Born in Queens, New York, Jesse Malin's passion for music began at an early age. Upon receiving his first nylon stringed acoustic guitar, Jesse taped an old 1950's reel-to-reel recorder with a beat-up attached microphone to its body and the soon-to-be songwriter began his musical career…

Malin began playing live the age of twelve years old in the seminal hardcore band Heart Attack, releasing the first NYC hardcore seven inch, God Is Dead, on Damaged Goods Records. Before he turned fourteen, Jesse continued to tour North America with Heart Attack and released two more records with the band. Upon the group's disbandment in 1984, Malin spent time as a gas station attendant, a health food store clerk and eventually found a home as a "man with a van," working with everyone from Barbara Streisand to The Swans. In the early 1990's, Jesse and his childhood pals formed the rock and roll band D Generation and released three albums, touring the globe several times over before parting ways in 1999.

After several in-between bridge bands, including PCP Highway and Bellvue, Jesse Malin found himself without a record deal and playing small clubs again. Having been offered a lump sum of money by a slumlord to leave his rent-controlled apartment across the street from Hells Angels headquarters, known as the safest block in New York City, he saw this as an opportunity. The offer was taken which provided the capital to pay off his debts (so he could walk down the other not-so-safe streets) with just enough left over for six days at Loho Studios where Malin recorded his critically acclaimed solo debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. Produced by long time friend Ryan Adams, The Fine Art was released in 2002 on One Little Indian / Artemis Records. Back on the road again, this time as a solo artist, Malin was touring more than ever before, finding himself in theatres, festivals and parts of the world he had never imagined. Upon returning to New York Malin recorded his self-produced second album, The Heat (2004), which received 5 stars in Uncut, followed by Glitter in the Gutter, which was released in 2007 on Green Day's Adeline Records and included "Broken Radio," a duet with Bruce Springsteen.

Malin's other projects have included On Your Sleeve, a covers record featuring a schizophrenic mix of his favorite songs including everything from Elton John to the The Kills and Jim Croce to The Hold Steady, The Finger (We Are Fuck You) with Ryan Adams, Johnny T, and Colin Burns and the Rodeo Queens, a side project with Green Day formed very, very late at night. Jesse was also the music supervisor on Burning Down The House: The Story of CBGB, directed by Many Stein, and recently reconnected with Stein as an associate producer on 2012's Bad Brains: Band in DC, co-directed by Stein and Ben Logan.

In 2010 Jesse and The St. Marks Social and released Love it To Life, produced by Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Lucero, Flogging Molly) for SideOneDummy Records, which was referred to as "the best album of his career," by Paste Magazine. After two years of relentless touring, Malin is back home in NYC writing songs for a new solo album and a new D Generation record. He also and hosts a monthly radio show on Sirius's Spectrum with John Varvatos entitled "New York Nights."