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Watch Dashboard Confessional's Acoustic Rolling Stone Session

December 21, 2009 12:00 AM ET

Last month, Dashboard Confessional unleashed their sixth album of the decade, Alter the Ending. As Rolling Stone reported, the release came as a standard disc and a special edition bundled with acoustic versions of the album's dozen songs. When Chris Carrabba and John Lefler stopped by the RS offices recently, we made them recreate the acoustic experience by stripping down "Get Me Right" and "Belle of the Boulevard." Watch "Get Me Right" up top and "Belle" after the jump.

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