Albums Of The Week: Brian Fallon & The Painkillers | Not Bad For New Jersey

How Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon Found His Inner Eighties Rock Star

The singer goes full Bryan Adams on his new solo album, Not Bad for New Jersey: "Songs with a lot of attitude were really big for me"

Albums Of The Week: Brian Fallon & The Painkillers | Not Bad For New Jersey

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Brian Fallon reunites with producer Butch Walker (Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, Green Day) for Not Bad For New Jersey, his first collection of original solo songs since 2020's Local Honey. Fallon is best known as the frontman of The Gaslight Anthem.

Album Review: Brian Fallon – Not Bad for New Jersey

To be a fan of Brian Fallon is to be a fan of grit and romanticism and commitment to a story. A Brian Fallon fan is on the pursuit of understanding the human experience. A defiant lover of rock, and punk, and folk. A Fallon fan rolls with the punches and, whether they know it or not, is undoubtedly a fan of New Jersey. With more than 20 years of consistently delivering on all aspects mentioned above, both as a solo artist and as the frontman of …

Rock 'n' Rolodex: Brian Fallon On Embracing Collaboration To Make 'Not Bad For New Jersey' - Stereoboard UK

Photo: Danny Clinch Brian Fallon is visibly beaming as he recalls the recording of his new solo album. “I would play them the demo in the morning and we’d say, ‘Okay, we got it’,” the Gaslight Anthem frontman says. “Eric [Slick, drums] would click off one-two-three and I’m tellin’ you, if I’m lyin’ I’m dyin’, I don’t think we did a song more than four times. It was nuts. It was truly like when you see those movies of Bob Dylan playing in the ‘60…