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Dashboard Confessional Biography

The American band Dashboard Confessional was established in the late 1990’s in Boca Raton, Florida. Founding member Chris Carrabba had been performing with the band Further Seems Forever, but he was interested in launching a side project while still a member of the band. Shortly after Further Seems Forever released its debut album, The Moon Is Down, Chris left the band and began experimenting with solo albums, releasing The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most and the EP So Impossible. Also solo projects, both were released under the name Dashboard Confessional.

But after teaming up with John Lefler, Scott Schoenbeck, and Mike Marsh, Carrabba re-established Dashboard Confessional as a group, and together the new members recorded a second Dashboard Confessional album, The Swiss Army Romance. The album was a moderate hit, and the group released The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most as a follow-up, but it was the album, A Mark, A Mission, a Brand, a Scar in 2003, which became the big breakthrough for the band. Featuring the songs “Hands Down” and “Rapid Hope Loss,” A Mark, A Mission, a Brand, a Scar launched Dashboard Confessional as one of the most well-known “emo” bands of the era.

Since that time, Dashboard Confessional has released: Dusk and Summer (2006), The Shade of Poison Trees (2007), and Alter the Ending (2009.) All three albums rose into the top twenty on the charts, and collectively they spawned the hits: “Don’t Wait,” “Rooftops and Invitations,” “Stolen,” and “Belle of the Boulevard.” The song “Vindicated” was also featured in the film Spider-Man 2 in 2004, although it did not appear on any of Dashboard Confessional’s albums.

Today, Dashboard Confessional continues to perform and record. The group has plans to return to the studio for a much-anticipated new album release in the coming years.