I thought the article is going to be a negative… the title is misleading.

Here’s an article from the Boston Herald on how DC is essentially not emo plus other stuff.

Perceptions are hard to break in the world of pop music.

When people think of Chris Carrabba, the charismatic founder/ frontman of Dashboard Confessional, images of a lone man strumming away on an acoustic guitar, shredding his larynx with full-throated roars of heartbreak inevitably surface. With the recent release of the lush, densely produced and surprisingly hopeful ‘‘Dusk and Summer,” Carrabba - who leads Dashboard into the Opera House on Sunday - takes a mighty crack at shattering his reputation as the sad-sack poster boy of emo.

Beefing up his usually spare sound with a full band and intricate arrangements may raise the collective eyebrows of his fan base, but Carrabba isn’t interested in simply sticking with what works. He was ready to finally shake the acoustic pigeonhole and make music on a grander scale.

‘‘I felt like I had license to make a record that was sonically pleasing to me,” the West Hartford, Conn.-born Carrabba said by phone earlier this week. ‘‘(‘Dusk and Summer’) is the way I like records to sound. I mean, what other reason should you make a record?”

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