John Nolan

John Nolan interests me as a study in restless artistic honesty. Best known as guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Taking Back Sunday, he walked away in 2003 with bassist Shaun Cooper to start Straylight Run, then later returned. That willingness to break and rebuild, to chase a different sound at personal cost, feels genuinely earnest rather than calculated. I have a soft spot for artists who put raw feeling on the line, and Nolan strikes me as one of them.

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Name (English)

John Nolan

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ノーラン

Reading

じょん・のーらん

Born

February 24, 1978 (age 48)

Origin

Rockville Centre, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / musician / singer-songwriter / guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Horse

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/thejohnnolan/
• Xhttps://x.com/JohnNolanMusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Nolan%20(musician)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4347811

Tags

• New York
• singer
• musician
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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