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Damen Warner is the front man for a metalcore band who has hit the skids. Hard. His record label dropped him, his manager has gone missing and now his agent won't return his calls. He is broke and homeless, and his career is deader than rock and roll.And worse-he's thirty.In a last-ditch effort to revive his career, Damen returns to Chicago on the promise of playing Lollapalooza and his life quickly spirals into a vortex of sex, drugs, rock and roll, colorful language, explicit content and poor taste.Antagonizing everyone in his path, Damen struggles to reinvent himself and to come to terms with his estranged family as he plummets face first to rock bottom.Subversive, sardonic, brilliantly painted and deeply fascinating-Damen's story is "fun" in the way carnival rides are fun: erratic, brightly colored and constructed by itinerants of negotiable character.

"2012 was over, and good riddance. It had kicked my ass, and I was glad it was done. 2013 wasn't off to a particularly auspicious start, but I felt certain things would get better. I certainly couldn't see how they could get any worse." Damen Warner is ready for a fresh start. After spiraling into alcoholic depression as the result of his grandmother's death he plans to start the new year right. Thanks to his newfound notoriety as an internet sensation, Damen and his band, OBNXS, return to the studio to record their next album. But as his professional career takes off, Damen quickly discovers that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Forced to balance his professional aspirations against his deepening relationship with his girlfriend Melody and her five-year-old daughter, Damen quickly finds himself tangled in a web of controversy and chaos that threatens everything he loves. As he fights to keep his band, his relationship, and his sanity from unravelling, Damen struggles to confront his attitudes toward family and fatherhood, and to grow up-or die trying.