It’s not very often that you get to see a drug bust.  But that’s exactly what happened when we filmed our set with Chris Farren of Fake Problems.  During their last stop in Boston, we walked down the street from Central Square and set up shop in front of a large purple fence, which was covered with doodles and quotes about the beauty of life.  We put Chris right in front of this one: “May you learn to play the right notes, may your song be beautiful and everlasting.”  We thought that might be fitting.  After the first song, he sat down on the sidewalk to play the other, and while we were checking our sound levels, a swarm of plain-clothes police officers came out of nowhere and tackled a guy on the corner.  Within seconds, guns out, sirens flashing, the BPD completely surrounded the man, hauled him into a car, and took him away.  And then they were gone.   Added to this, Chris had just sung Song for Teenagers for us, which starts off with the lyrics, Looking for drugs in all the wrong places.  Indeed.

Songs for Teenagers off of the band’s latest release Real Ghosts Caught On Tape has quite a different sound than the tracks off of Fake Problems’ first two LP’s. How Far Our Bodies Go and It’s Great To Be Alive, the band’s first two records, combined elements of Punk, Surf and Folk, while Farren’s growling vocals made many think FP was the second coming of Against Me! (The bands are from the same hometown, Naples, Florida, and we’re sure they loved getting compared to Against Me! constantly).

However, on this latest effort, the band embraces a little more of a dance punk style, while Farren scales back the screaming in favor of a cleaner voice. It’s like he turned off the distortion pedal.

We have Songs for Teenagers off of the newest release, Too Cold to Hold from It’s Great To Be Alive and a special performance of Mr. Rock and Roll, a B-side off the the Soulless single.

Enjoy.

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