{"id":2415552,"date":"2026-05-13T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2415552"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:23:34","slug":"somehow-im-still-here-and-im-still-in-one-piece-the-gaslight-anthem-frontman-brian-fallon-shares-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/somehow-im-still-here-and-im-still-in-one-piece-the-gaslight-anthem-frontman-brian-fallon-shares-first-new-solo-music-in-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Somehow I\u2019m still here, and I\u2019m still in one piece.&#8221; The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon shares first new solo music in five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-e269be6a-5790-4e91-96bc-9a79f9f83144\">The Gaslight Anthem&#8217;s frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/brian-fallon-gaslight-anthem-albums\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/brian-fallon-gaslight-anthem-albums\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/brian-fallon-gaslight-anthem-albums\">Brian Fallon<\/a> has shared his first new solo music in five years.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old New Jersey-born singer\/songwriter has released two new songs, <em>Not Bad For New Jersey<\/em> and <em>Better Before<\/em>, both produced by Butch Walker, on his own Lesser Known Records label.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-e269be6a-5790-4e91-96bc-9a79f9f83144-2\">A press statement announcing the releases describes <em>Better Before<\/em> as &#8220;a tortured portrait of unraveling romance&#8221; while <em>Not Bad For New Jersey<\/em> is described as a &#8220;gloriously ragged homage to Fallon\u2019s beloved home state and all the grit it instilled in him&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not Bad for New Jersey is my way of celebrating what I do and where I\u2019m from,&#8221; says Fallon. &#8220;I wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash \u2013 like, How did I make it through that? 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