Dashboard Confessional is an American emo band led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Carrabba from Boca Raton, Florida. The current lineup includes Carrabba (guitar, vocals), Scott Shoenbeck (bass guitar), John Lefler (guitar), and Mike Marsh (drums).

History

Carrabba taught himself to play guitar at age 15, although skateboarding remained his main interest throughout high school. During the mid- to late-1990s, Carrabba played in such punk and hardcore bands as The Vacant Andys, The Agency, and Further Seems Forever. However, it wasn't long before he began doing low-key, acoustic concerts on his own. For a while the project went nameless, until Carrabba decided to borrow a line from one of his songs ("The Sharp Hint of New Tears "), resulting in the name Dashboard Confessional.

Dashboard Confessional has since grown from a one-man acoustic act into a full-blown emo band with hits such as "Screaming Infidelities," "Saints and Sailors," "Hands Down," "Ghost of a Good Thing," and most recently, "Vindicated" from the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack.

Dashboard Confessional's first tour was with a hardcore band called Boy Sets Fire. Although the latter does not play the same sort of music as Dashboard Confessional, most of the fans at the concert knew all of Carrabba's lyrics. As Dashboard Confessional has risen in popularity, they have begun playing in larger arenas and have had more theatrical shows, rather than the intimate, emotional setting of their first few tours.

Discography

• Drowning EP (Fiddler Records , 2000)
• Swiss Army Romance (Drive-Thru Records, 2000)
• The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (Vagrant Records, 2001)
• So Impossible EP (Vagrant Records, 2001)
• Summer's Kiss EP (Vagrant Records, 2001)
• Dashboard Confessional Unplugged (Vagrant Records, 2002)
• Swiss Army Romance Reissue (Vagrant Records, 2003)
• A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar (Vagrant Records, 2004)

External links

• The official Dashboard Confessional website
• Vagrant Records
• DBCLive a fansite that hosts recordings of live performances