Manchester is my second home—the amount of time I have spent there for concerts and nights out. I’ll never be able to thank the city enough. I think that’s quite the same for underground rock legend, Jesse Malin . Every time Jesse plays Manchester people turn out in droves to see him. The native New Yorker is always treated like a rock god when playing clubs in Manchester. This was my fourth time checking him out live. The first time I ever saw him he was opening for The Replacements in London. I knew I was going to like his music from that moment on. I picked up a copy of his album New York, Before The War , and it blew me away. I would continue to listen to him and I think I have a good handle on his style. It’s that college rock/adult alternative sound that got really big in the 90s with bands like Soul Asylum and Bob Mould . Why is that important? Well, that’s kind of the crux of this tour. It’s been 20 years since the release of his debut solo record The Fine Art of Self D...