{"id":2415037,"date":"2026-05-13T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415037"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:57:24","slug":"brian-fallon-returns-with-first-new-solo-music-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brian-fallon-returns-with-first-new-solo-music-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Fallon returns with first new solo music in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brian Fallon has announced today\u2019s premiere of two brand new tracks, \u201cNot Bad For New Jersey\u201d and \u201cBetter Before,\u201d both available everywhere now via his own Lesser Known Records.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brian Fallon - Not Bad for New Jersey (Official Visualizer)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uyTONAlPm8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Fallon\u2019s first original solo music in more than five years, both new songs see the veteran rocker summoning up a frenetic collision of power pop and heartland rock, the perfect sonic counterpart to the hot-blooded sincerity that has driven his songwriting for close to three decades. Produced by longtime collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Jesse Malin, Taylor Swift) at Walker\u2019s studio just outside Nashville, \u201cBetter Before\u201d \u2013 co-written with his close friend, Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter Donovan Woods \u2013 relates a tortured portrait of unraveling romance, while \u201cNot Bad For New Jersey\u201d serves as a gloriously ragged homage to Fallon\u2019s beloved home state and all the grit it instilled in him.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c\u2018Not Bad for New Jersey\u2019 is my way of celebrating what I do and where I\u2019m from,\u201d <\/em>says Brian Fallon.<em> \u201cI wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash \u2013 like, \u2018How did I make it through that?\u2019 I really could\u2019ve busted myself open somewhere along the way, but somehow I\u2019m still here, and I\u2019m still in one piece.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Brian Fallon\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/3JlzEFwarS8ZcCGNFy11y4?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/brianfallon.lnk.to\/notbadfornewjersey\">LISTEN TO<\/a> \u201cNOT BAD FOR NEW JERSEY\u201d +  \u201cBETTER BEFORE\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fallon \u2013 backed by his band, The Painkillers \u2013 will mark the arrival of his new music with a very special series of intimate live performances, beginning June 14 at Asbury Park, NJ\u2019s world renowned The Stone Pony and then visiting Nashville, TN\u2019s The Basement (June 16), West Hollywood, CA\u2019s historic Troubadour (June 20), and Chicago, IL\u2019s Reggies\u2019 Rock Club (June 22). Limited tickets for all four dates go on sale this Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.totalntertainment.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Fallon has announced today\u2019s premiere of two brand new tracks, \u201cNot Bad For New Jersey\u201d and \u201cBetter Before,\u201d both available everywhere now via his own Lesser Known Records. 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