Brian Fallon returns with new singles "Not Bad For New Jersey” and “Better Before", his first solo music in five years

The tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Jesse Malin, Taylor Swift), see Fallon combine power pop and heartland rock. They were recorded at Walker's studio outside of Nashville, with “Better Before” – co-written with his close friend and singer-songwriter Donovan Woods – centring on an unravelling romance, while “Not Bad For New Jersey” serves as an homage to Fallon’s home state.

Speaking about "Not Bad For New Jersey", Fallon says, “‘Not Bad for New Jersey’ is my way of celebrating what I do and where I’m from,” says Brian Fallon. “I wrote that song looking back on my life the way you do after almost ending up in a crash – like, ‘How did I make it through that?’ I really could’ve busted myself open somewhere along the way, but somehow I’m still here, and I’m still in one piece.”

The new songs arrive just as Fallon is set to play a run of intimate shows throughout June, before joining Bruce Springsteen, Rosanne Cash, Kenny Chesney, and more for Music America: The Songs That Shaped Us – Celebrating 250 Years of American Music, a one-off concert taking place on 4 June ahead of the grand opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University on 7 June. The event will feature Fallon and his fellow artists performing songs from American music history, celebrating America’s semiquincentennial and the Springsteen Centre’s grand opening.