Facing New York Biography

Facing New York


Despite the band name, Facing New York hail from the punk rock mecca of the San Francisco Bay Area scene, a second-generation emo band with some progressive and post-rock tendencies that grew out of two minor earlier outfits. Singer and guitarist Eric Frederic and keyboardist Rene Carranza's...

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