Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional is Christopher Carrabba's creation--an outlet for introspective moments of solitude. Two years ago, the now 25-year-old singer-songwriter turned to song to get out what was inside. From the acceptance his two albums, The Swiss Army Romance and The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, have received from not-easily-won-over punk rock audiences around the country, there are a lot of people who relate. Carrabba's style is intimate and visceral. Unlike the raucous punk sounds of his previous bands, Further Seems Forever and The Vacant Andys, Dashboard is a quiet affair: Carrabba's acoustic accompanied by simple bass and drums.

A native of Connecticut, Carabba was always interested in music, singing in the school chorus and messing around with a guitar his uncle gave him at 15. He didn't get serious with his playing until a few years later. Carrabba's mother encouraged him in music, even sitting him down in front of MTV when it premiered and telling him that's what he was going to do. Before his music career took off, he was a teacher and school administrator at an elementary school in South Florida. Carrabba's leap of faith began when he left his former band, donated his belongings to Goodwill and hopped in a van to start his first tour with Dashboard Confessional. Carrabba's fans were won by word-of-mouth and albums bought by the handful at local shows around Florida. Dashboard's first headlining gig in North Carolina was so sold out that fans that had driven hours to hear Carrabba loitered outside to catch a glimpse through the doorway. The venue was unable to stay open for a second show, so Carrabba brought his guitar outside to play for those who had waited.

The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most was originally released in April of 2001, and in four short months sold more than 40,000 units. After co-headlining a summer of sold out shows on the Vagrant America Tour, including two nights at New York's Irving Plaza, four nights in Chicago and two at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, Dashboard Confessional's album was re-launched that fall.

Chris Carraba isn't just another hard-rockin' tattooed loveboy. Rather Carraba-who, for the most part, is Dashboard Confessional--sings emotional songs of love and loss, plays an acoustic guitar, and has become the patron saint of the so-called "emo" movement. As if that weren't enough, D.C. managed to strike a chord with the same TRL kids that liked Britney and *NSYNC, and proved to be one of the more unlikely and interesting success stories of 2002.

Carraba, who hails from Boca Raton, Florida, got his first guitar as a gift from an uncle when he was 15, but he was far too into skateboarding at the time to devote himself to music. Following his high school graduation, however, Carraba buckled down and joined a band called the Vacant Andies before moving on to Further Seems Forever. The latter act landed a song on the Emo Diaries, Vol. 4: An Ocean Of Doubt and released From The 27th State, a split EP with Recess Theory, before Carraba went solo as Dashboard Confessionals.

D.C.'s 2000 debut EP, The Swiss Army Romance, included the song "Screaming Infidelities," which would eventually become a modern rock radio hit as its star rose up from the underground over the next two years. In that time period, D.C. returned with and album (The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most) and two EPs (The Drowning and So Impossible).

With plenty of product on the market, D.C.'s popularity soared to new heights as evidenced on 2002's MTV Unplugged V 2.0. The CD/DVD combo release featured the band's performance on the revived MTV program. Perhaps the most mind-blowing element of the set is not Carraba's performance, but the audience, which sings along to his songs with the passion of true believers.

Dashboard Confessional attempted to keep that connection with its audience alive with the summer 2003 release of A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar.

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