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July 8, 2002

Dashboard Confessional's King of Pain

Chris Carrabba turns heartbreak into a sing-along

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Alter The Ending

Over the past decade, Chris Carrabba has turned his penchant for angsty soul-baring into a career, a quasi-religious practice and a genre. The emo godfather's sixth album proves he's also gotten better in that span. Ending is a return to full-bore rock after the mellow Shade of Poison...

2009 RS: 4of 5 Stars

The Shade of Poison Trees

2007

Dusk And Summer

2006

A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar

2003

Summers Kiss [EP]

2002

Mtv Unplugged V2.0

2001

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Biography

Dashboard Confessional is a band, but it's easy to use the name to cover the cult of personality of just one man: singer/songwriter Chris Carrabba. Taking cues from the more confessional and personal vein of '90s indie punk, known somewhat derisively as "emo," Carrabba turned the idea into a one-man cottage industry of sad-boy folk-punk numbers. His debut, The Swiss Army Romance, is an intimate,...

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