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Dashboard Confessional at Leeds Festival 2006
Dashboard Confessional at Leeds Festival 2006
General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock , indie rock , emo
founding 1999
Website www.dashboardconfessional.com
Current occupation
Chris Carrabba
John Lefler
Scott Schoenbeck
Mike Marsh

Dashboard Confessional is the stage name of the American musician Christopher Ender Carrabba, who is also the band leader of the music group of the same name.

Life

At the age of 15, Christopher Ender Carrabba received his first guitar from his uncle Angelo. It wasn't until he graduated from high school , however, that he began to take a serious look at music. So it came about that he played in the band The Vacant Andies for a few years . When the band broke up, Carrabba, who was now working as a primary school teacher in Florida , moved to The Agency and released his first album with them. When Christopher began experimenting with acoustic recordings while making this record, his band members, impressed by his pieces, tried to persuade him to embark on an acoustic solo career. After The Agency split up, Christopher joined the Christian emocore band Further Seems Forever as a singer , from which he said goodbye after the release of the first album The Moon is Down in order to finally go his own way. In search of a name he is inspired by the line of text “ On the way home this car hears my confessions ” from his song The Sharp Hint Of New Tears and calls himself Dashboard Confessional .

The band

The band was created as a solo project by Chris Carraba, who in 2000, when his first solo LP The Swiss Army Romance was released, was still playing in the band Further seems Forever . He was hired by Vagrant Records , which otherwise relied on bands like The Get Up Kids or Alkaline Trio . In 2001 his second album The Places you have come to fear the most was released , on which he continued to provide acoustic music. With his follow-up album A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar , however, he showed a departure from his typical acoustic music and allowed himself to be played by some friends (including Jerry Castellanos, who was also on Further Seems Forever ) with electric bass , drums and Support background singing. The album was produced by Gil Norton , who has already worked on works by the Foo Fighters and Pixies , among others .

Dashboard Confessional is the first and so far only band that has managed to be invited to an MTV unplugged show without having posted millions in sales. She owes this largely to her fans, who were able to convince an MTV producer with her singing at the concerts. It was this concert that made Dashboard Confessional's breakthrough .

Her title Hands Down became known to a wider audience in Germany when it became the theme song for the television series 18 - Alone Among Girls . The video for the single Screaming Infidelities won the MTV2 Award at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards .

The single Stolen , which was placed in the US charts at number 44, was recorded for the German market in a version with the band Juli .

The new album Alter The Ending was released on November 10, 2009. There is a normal and a “deluxe” edition, with an additional CD containing all the tracks on the album as acoustic versions as well as an additional bonus song. The first single of the new album is entitled Belle Of The Boulevard .

In 2010 the band played as the opener for Bon Jovi on their The Circle Tour in the USA. This was announced by band leader Jon Bon Jovi on the show "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on December 9, 2009.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
2001 The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most - - US108
gold
gold

(27 weeks)US
First published: March 20, 2001
2002 MTV Unplugged 2.0 - - US111 (6 weeks)
US
First release: December 17th, 2002
live album
2003 A mark, a mission, a brand, a scar - UK93 (1 week)
UK 		US2
gold
gold

(35 weeks)US
First published: August 12, 2003
2006 Dusk and Summer DE52 (1 week)
DE 		UK91 (1 week)
UK 		US2
gold
gold

(22 weeks)US
First published: June 27, 2006
2007 The Shade of Poison Trees - - US18 (6 weeks)
US
First published: October 2, 2007
2009 Alter the ending - - US19 (3 weeks)
US
First published: November 10, 2009
2018 Crooked Shadows - - US53 (1 week)
US
First published: February 9, 2018

more publishments

  • 2000: The Swiss Army Romance
  • 2007: The Wire Tapes Vol. 1

EPs

  • 2001: The Drowning
  • 2001: So Impossible
  • 2002: Summers Kiss
  • 2006: Sessions @ AOL
  • 2010: Swiss Army Bro-Mance (with New Found Glory )
  • 2017: Covered and Taped

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE UK UK US US
2003 Hands Down
A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar 		DE93 (2 weeks)
DE 		UK60 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: August 12, 2003
2004 Rapid Hope Loss
A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar 		- UK75 (1 week)
UK 		-
First published: May 4, 2004
2006 Don't Wait
Dusk and Summer 		- UK68 (1 week)
UK 		US80 (4 weeks)
US
First published: May 23, 2006
2007 Stoles
Dusk and Summer 		DE15 * (12 weeks)
DE 		- US44 (12 weeks)
US
First published: February 13, 2007
* (feat. July )

More singles

  • 2002: Screaming Infidelities
  • 2002: Saints and Sailors
  • 2004: Vindicated
  • 2006: Rooftops and Invitations
  • 2007: Thick as Thieves
  • 2008: These Bones
  • 2009: Belle of the Boulevard
  • 2017: We Fight

Video albums

  • 2003: MTV Unplugged 2.0 (US:platinumplatinum)

Awards

  • MTV2 Video Music Award for Screaming Infidelities

Web links

Commons : Dashboard Confessional  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US