Brand New Video: “Belle Of The Boulevard” // Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional released their brand new album, Alter The Ending today. Don’t forget to check it out and support them by buying it!
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Exclusive Track: “No News Is Bad News” // Dashboard Confessional // Alter The Ending
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Exclusive Track: “Get Me Right (Acoustic)” // Dashboard Confessional
Artist Of The Week - Wednesday: “Screaming Infidelities” // Dashboard Confessional
Stream Dashboard Confessional’s new album, Alter The Ending.
With the release of his fourth full-length album Dusk and Summer, the Boca Raton, Florida resident is no longer simply an up-and-coming musician; he’s a career artist. Dusk is certainly the most defining album of what has already been a remarkable career; on one end, it’s a return to the full band sound of Carrabba’s earliest, pre-Dashboard work, and yet also the most forward-thinking and innovative record he’s ever recorded.
“When I started Dashboard six years ago, I was reacting to these other bands I had been in,” says Carrabba, referring to his time in the bands the Vacant Andys and Further Seems Forever. “At the time, I needed something…simpler.” If those bands were about being loud and filling a room, Carrabba’s instinct was to strip it all down and let his voice and his guitar carry the emotions.
It was a smart, and life-changing, idea. After recording an EP (Drowning), Carrabba released his debut full-length The Swiss Army Romance in 2000.
Carrabba¹s acoustic yearnings found a home with the punk and indie rock crowd. A year of constant touring led to bigger shows, better opening slots and the sense that something bigger was coming.
With Dashboard Confessional releasing a new album on November 10th, I figured I’d get you prepared.
We have some bad news
We have some bad news. Due to a family situation that is beyond our control, we have to cancel our upcoming tour with New Found Glory, Never Shout Never, Meg & Dia and Single File (we are still playing with the Louisville Orchestra on November 7th). We don’t take this lightly but family has to come first. As this is a last minute development, we are still figuring out what we will do- as soon as we know, you will know. We apologize to everyone who planned on coming to the shows. We will find a way to make it up to you.
—Chris, John, Scott, Mike / Dashboard Confessional
“Making an electric and acoustic version of an album was an idea we’d kicked around for a couple years. This record felt like the one to do it with,” Carrabba tells Rolling Stone. “Most of my songs start out as acoustic songs anyway, so it wasn’t real stretch. But to make it new, there was more of a ‘bunch of guys around one mic’ approach. Also, I’m not oblivious to the fact that no matter what we do, there are always those people who prefer us acoustic. Now they don’t have to choose one or the other.”
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Dashboard Confessional is going something never done before. Click here to read what the 2nd disc will be for their upcoming release, Alter The Ending.
Dashboard Confessional will be releasing Alter The Ending on November 10th. What hasn’t been announced yet though is the deal with it being a double-disc release. Well here is why… both CD’s will include all of the same songs - 1 CD will be a “full band” version of all the songs and the 2nd CD will be an “acoustic” version of all the songs. To my understanding, nothing like this has ever been done before. Props Dashboard, props.
Track Listing
01) Get Me Right
02) Until Morning
03) Everybody Learns From Disaster
04) Belle of the Boulevard
05) I Know About You
06) Alter the Ending
07) Blame it on the Changes
08) Even Now
09) The Motions
10) No News is Bad News
11) Water and Bridges
12) Hell on the Throat
