Florida punk-scene staple Chris Farren has spent much of the past decade refining one of the most endearing tongue-in-cheek personas since Stephen Colbert’s 11-season-long Colbert Report neocon shtick. On Twitter and Instagram as well as in real life, Farren plays at being an overconfident pretty boy, and he’s stuck with the gimmick long enough to […]
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Merry punk prankster Chris Farren makes pop-inflected tunes that won’t die on you
Chris Farren is the best kind of punk prankster; he pokes fun at himself as much as anything else, but is also full of earnestness. Although the 31-year-old is a punk-scene veteran, he’s still relatively green to recording and performing as a solo artist—the result of a circuitous path. Farren’s previous band Fake Problems went […]
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Local band Pet Symmetry has just the thing for emo-loving dog owners
You and your pet can get something when you preorder the band’s forthcoming debut, Pets Hounds.
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It’s ‘Emo Revival Christmas 2014,’ the most wonderful time of the year
That’s really the name of a song off a real Christmas album from Chris Farren of Fake Problems, and it’s a real good one too.