#182 - Dashboard Confessional
Dashboard Confessional Further Seems Forever At The Drive
#182 – March 2010
Dashboard Confessional
New songs, new approaches, same person: Ryan J. Downey talks to Dashboard Confessional mainstay Chris Carrabba about the view from where he’s standing-and, no, he can’t see John Mayer’s house from there.
Me First And The Gimme Gimmes
The world’s coolest cover band discusses the merits of contemporary R&B, good swag and teen urine-drinking with J. Bennett.
The Mars Volta
Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler Zavala left one of the underground’s most respected bands at its creative zenith. Trevor Kelley learns why and finds there’s plenty of creative life on Mars.
Further Seems Forever
More than just a footnote in Chris Carrabba’s career, this band of Florida punks are clearing their own path. All it takes is faith in God, barbecues, air pistols and the occasional Guinness.
The Revolution Smile
Shaun Lopez doesn’t care about what you think about his old band, those clowns at Buddyhead or the Britney-jilted president of his record label. He just wants you to listen to his music.
Erase Errata
This Bay Area no-wave quartet became the Alpha Females of the underground via their inspiration and convictions. And it could all fall apart at any minute.
A.P.’S ANNUAL BACK-TO-SCHOOL GUIDE
Forget the notebooks and foldaway chairs: Our editors pick over 40 new items you’ll really want to take back to school this fall. Meanwhile, we get an equal number of rockers, athletes and other celebrities to dish about their own school experiences, and dig out their most embarassing school-days pictures for the first-ever A.P. Yearbook.
Sections
New Releases
Sure, you already downloaded the demos, but we’re previewing the new finished discs from MxPx, Thursday, Andrew W.K., Sick Of It All, Small Brown Bike and Strike Anywhere; plus, we go In The Studio to spy on Finch, the Casualties and the Polyphonic Spree, and list nearly 150 new discs that’ll ease your return to school this fall.
Wiretapping
The A.P. Poll asks how you’d reinvent yourself; the Weakerthans subtly smash the system; Throwdown toss subtlety out the window; Black Flag reunite in separate venues; Sense Field find hope in tragedy; rockers unite to benefit PETA and educate prisoners; Midtown show us how to be vegan on the road; Steve Burns rocks out after Blue’s Clues; and Bam Margera and the Grind crew gleam the cube. And that’s just the first few pages…
Screenings
Jeremy Sisto proves there’s a fine line between Clueless and Julius Caesar; meanwhile, Now Showing checks out what’s new in theaters and DVD players.
Low Profiles
Paint It Black give us new hope for the old school; AM Radio take us to the Rivers; and Yellowcard just string us along. Plus, nine more bands you need to know in the Lowdown.
Reviews
The highly knowledgeable (and overworked) staff at the A.P. Record Store gives you the skinny on new releases from the Bouncing Souls, Guided By Voices, Minus, the Unseen, Tricky, Strung Out and more; Jane’s Addiction and the Used stop by for In-Store Sessions; plus Reissues, and find out which editor’s wife can’t stand the Locust in this month’s Listening Station.
A.P. Readers Pick:10 Essential Guilty Pleasures
Don’t blame us; this month, we bring out the musical skeletons in A.P. readers’ closets, and we guarantee the results are heating up our message boards as you read this.
