I know that you guys have been asking me for downloadable videos for your iPods and there ya go. iTunes has the AOL Sessions videos.

Click here to check them out.

Oct 24 - Denver, CO @ Magness Arena
Oct 28 - Ypsilanti, MI @ EMU Convocation Center
Oct 29 - Wilkes-Barre, PA @ Wachovia Arena

Nov 4 - Fort Smith, AR @ Fort Smith Convention Center- Exhibition Hall
Nov 9 - St Petersburg, FL @ St Pete Times Forum
Nov 10 - Boca Raton, FL @ Mizner Park Amphitheatre
Nov 11 - Orlando, FL @ UCF Arena
Nov 15 - Winston-Salem, NC @ Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Nov 17 - Camden, NJ @ Tweeter Center at Waterfront

More dates to be announced shortly, so don’t worry if you don’t see your city listed yet!

Dashboard Confessional has announced fall tour dates with special guests Brand New!

A limited number of tickets have been held for Dashboard Confessional fans and will be available through a special presale that begins this Wednesday,
August 23rd at 1 PM (Local Time). By buying tickets through our presale, you’ll be able to get your tickets before anyone else AND save some money on service charges.

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OCT 13 - Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Amphitheatre
OCT 17 - San Jose, CA @ San Jose Civic Auditorium
OCT 18 - Bakersfield, CA @ Rabobank Arena
OCT 20 - Las Vegas, NV @ UNLV Intramural Field
OCT 21 - San Diego, CA @ Cox Arena
OCT 23 - Orem, UT @ McKay Events Center
OCT 27 - Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena

More date will be announced shortly, so don’t worry if you don’t see your city listed yet!

For the latest news and info on Dashboard Confessional go to (http://www.dashboardconfessional.com)

To hear about the latest Brand New news and updates, check out (http://www.brandnewrock.com)

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The review echoes the sentiment of some of the long time fans… yeah, I’ll let you read it for yourself.

I have something to admit. Growing up in Jersey as a punk rock kid in the late ‘90s I was a closet Dashboard Confessional fan. And, after talking to some old friends who grew up the same way I did, we all came to realize that we had all been closet Dashboard fans.

I think it is inherent in punk and hardcore kids to like a few select softer bands. A lot of hardcore kids really loved Elliott in high school and it probably helped that that band was signed to Revelation Records, a hardcore label. Of course my love for Dashboard stopped after The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most because I had grown up a bit and also because I felt the band had worn out its heartbreaking welcome.

So now, two albums and five years later Carrabba and Company are still out there making new school emo anthems. But this Dashboard is nothing like what I remember from High School. This Dashboard has rock hooks and not much real emotion. This Dashboard is devoid of the only thing that actually made the band good: sincere heartbreak.

He gives it a 4 out of 10.

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Here’s a sample of “emo styles” that attended the DC show last month at Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal Studios.

(Photograph by Jeffrey Mayer)

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There are numerous places emo superstar Chris Carrabba can’t go without a throng of screaming adolescents trailing him. Fortunately, the rock & roll dive bar WXOU Radio in Manhattan’s West Village is not one of them. Here, hidden among a rowdier crowd, Carrabba, who is synonymous with Dashboard Confessional (the four-piece band he fronts), is able to watch the Yankees-vs.-Red Sox game prominently playing on the TV and announce his lifelong loyalty to the Bronx Bombers. (Alas, they lose 9-5.) A few drinks help to reveal more surprises tucked under the singer-guitarist’s heavily tattooed sleeves: a vast, anthem-heavy new album (Dusk and Summer, out June 27), an unlikely friendship with a ’90s alt-rock icon, and an ability to toss ‘em back. Three of them, at least.

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She liked Say Anything’s 30 min set more (i did too)

One year after touring with stadium fillers U2, Dashboard Confessional are drawing decent crowds of their own — on Aug. 12, in fact, they sold out New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The crowd was made up mostly of teenage girls and women in their 20s — all of them obsessed with frontman Chris Carrabba, to the presumed dismay of the unfortunate young lads they’d dragged along. (Also in the house: Carrabba’s No. 1 fan, his mother, whom he dutifully acknowledged during the show.)

The band is the brainchild of Carrabba, and tellingly, from the moment Dashboard stepped on stage, the spotlight was trained on him. It was almost painful to watch the rest of the band, including special guest violinist Susan Sherouse, who often performs and records with the group, slip into the shadows. Perhaps Dashboard Confessional will always be a solo act, the way Carrabba intended it to be back in 1999.

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MTV @ 10PM EST

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ONE GRAND PRIZE WINNER will get:
Epiphone Guitar
Poster autographed by Chris
Dusk and Summer CD
Hoodie
T-Shirt

Two FIRST PRIZES will get:
Dusk and Summer CD
Hoodie

Short Summary of Official Rules
Sweepstakes Period: August 14, 2006 12:01 a.m. PT and September 11, 2006 11:59 p.m. PT
Limit to one entry only
13 years old and older
Permanent Resident of the 50 states

Enter Here

Sweepstakes by SYNTHESIS Magazine.

5 Grand Prize winners will recieve autographed copies of Dashboard Confessional’s new cd and poster.

Open only to Synthesis members 13 years or older. Sweepstakes ends September 19th 2006.
^– but it’s free to sign up though…

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