OMG… I just spent half of the day reinstalling Windows and I don’t think it fixed anything.

Anyway here is a newly listed video of Dashboard Confessional performing Stolen live for Yahoo! Music.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a positive review of a concert.

Carrabba has been on a gradual mission to take Dashboard Confessional to another level, and with this album and tour, it seems to be arriving. That could be good news for an industry desperately in need of young headliners. — Well, he’s not exactly young… :)

Unlike most singers, Chris Carrabba has a lot of voice left at the end of the show to really belt out the encores. That’s because the faithful followers of Dashboard Confessional come to the concert equipped with every word and ready to sing.

Once again, they made for a wonderful (mostly girls) chorus Saturday night at the Chevrolet Amphitheatre.

Mind you, it’s not like the old days of Dashboard, when it was an acoustic campfire sing-along. Dashboard has evolved into a sturdy rock band with a sonic range approaching that of U2, which the band toured with last year.

Playing in front of a stunning backdrop that looked like the set from “Rent,” Dashboard struck with two or three guitars, rhythm section and extra textures from violinist Susan Sherouse.

Concert Review: Dashboard drives to new levels

Here is a not-so stellar review of the Dusk and Summer from Mammoth Press. They also have a review of current label-mate, tour band member John Ralston.

The reviewer gives it a 5 out of 10.

For the most part, I agree with it but hey, I’m still a fan if not this site wouldn’t exist… right? right? ok…. :)

If you’re a longtime Dashboard Confessional fan and were hoping for a new release that would guide Chris Carraba’s sound back to the spare and urgent acoustic dynamite of his early recordings…this isn’t it.

We’re all friends here, and we can admit–just between us, I promise not to tell your friends in the cafeteria at lunch–that Carraba is really not that great of a singer. What made him appealing was not his talent but his sincerity, the raw urgency and vulnerability that turned a purely acoustic song like “Screaming Infidelities” into an anthemic arena-rock singalong. Sure, maybe some of you had days where you thought maybe he should get over it, find a new girlfriend, pick himself up and shake the dust off and head back into the world; but then your significant other would dump you via text message in homeroom and there you were, right back to stuffing yourself into the headphones and cranking The Places You’ve Come to Fear the Most as loud as it would go.

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Here’s a positive concert review from St. Louis.

St. Louis fans of Dashboard Confessional got to have their collective voice heard - we’re talking really heard - at the rock band’s sold-out concert Thursday night at the Pageant.

The Chris Carrabba-fronted outfit’s 90-minute show featured as much singing from the audience as from the heart-throbbing Carrabba, as most of the songs contained at least a portion in which fans completely took over. But that annoyance wasn’t impossible to overcome, because almost everything else about the concert felt so right.

Much of that revolved around Carrabba. The former singer from Further Seems Forever is a charismatic front man who seemed to have the crowd eating out of his hands.

Against a set decorated with bright Chinese lanterns and a vibrant brick building backdrop, Dashboard Confessional gave its version of the sometimes overly murky genre called emo, which sometimes references a softcore, more female-friendly version of punk. In this band’s hands, it’s not necessarily complicated or challenging, thanks to Carrabba’s open-hearted approach to songwriting. But that’s not at all a diss.

Carrabba switched configurations all night, sometimes performing with a full band including a violinist, sometimes going solo with his acoustic guitar or as a guitar duo.

He excelled, regardless of which way things were pulled together.

He surrendered the spotlight once, saying he wanted to give something back to the crowd. That was friend John Ralston, introduced as the best singer-songwriter, for the song “Gone, Gone, Gone,” one of the night’s best.

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