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When Craig Finn wants to make an L.A. album, he doesn’t mess around. He might be best known as the Minnesota-via-Brooklyn frontman of the Hold Steady, a punk bar-band wordsmith specializing in down-and-out tales with a Midwest flavor. But on his great new Always Been, he takes inspiration from Southern …

Those outside of the New York music scene may not be all that familiar with Jesse Malin. The punk and hardcore pioneer turned gritty troubadour of the streets never really had a mainstream hit, despite writing some of the most melody-rich songs of the last two decades, beginning with his …