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One of the hottest concert tours has come to an end – Civic Tour featuring Dashboard Confessional. From nightly crowd sing-a-longs to 10 fans so far winning fully customized Dashboard Confessional Honda Civics, this year’s Civic Tour has proved to be a box office and audience success, and continues to keep concertgoers involved. Fans still have one last shot at winning the final customized DC Civic through the “Drive Away With Dashboard Confessional” national online sweepstakes at http://www.civictour.com. Contest ends on September 2, 2004 and is open to licensed drivers 18 and older. “Being on this tour allowed us to… Read more »

Don’t cry for Chris Carrabba – sure, the Dashboard Confessional singer may have suffered a broken heart (or two), but post-punk’s sensitive poster boy is clearly on the mend and ready for bigger action. Where he might have once shied away from singing some of his vocals out of stage fright, he now lets the crowd take over – as he did Thursday at his Roseland Ballroom tour stop – as part of a coy quid pro quo. Carrabba spent just as much time in front of the mic as away from it. “Get it out of your system,” he… Read more »

Dashboard Confessional made an astonishing debut at Number Two on the Billboard 200 Album chart with A Mark – A Mission – A Brand – A Scar selling 122,000 copies in just one week. Not bad, considering the group had never sold more than 35,000 albums in a week before. The band’s founder Chris Carrabba told Billboard.com, “I don’t think this will affect my relationship with my fans.” He laughingly added, “If they (the fans) didn’t want us to get any bigger than when we were playing coffeehouse shows, they shouldn’t have started bringing their friends.” The band has always… Read more »