Dashboard Confessional pictures with tag: videos

Live at Rolling Stone: Watch Butch Walker’s Acoustic Set

Butch Walker, “one of America’s best singer-songwriters,” according to Rolling Stone’s review of latest disc I Liked It Better When You Had No Heart, recently stopped by the RS offices to perform a stripped-down set of songs from the album with bandmate Fran Capitanelli. Walker, whose producing credits include Pink, Katy Perry and Dashboard Confessional, says his next project will be sessions with Norwegian rocker Ida Maria, who broke out last year with a song whose title isn’t very different fr

Published: 2010-03-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Live at Rolling Stone, Videos

Watch Dashboard Confessional’s Acoustic Rolling Stone Session

Last month, Dashboard Confessional unleashed their sixth album of the decade, Alter the Ending. As Rolling Stone reported, the release came as a standard disc and a special edition bundled with acoustic versions of the album’s dozen songs. When Chris Carrabba and John Lefler stopped by the RS offices recently, we made them recreate the acoustic experience by stripping down “Get Me Right” and “Belle of the Boulevard.” Watch “Get Me Right” up top and “Belle” after the jump. “Belle of the Boulevard

Published: 2009-12-21 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Dashboard Confessional, Live at Rolling Stone, Videos

Backstage With Panic at the Disco: “Give the Jonas Brothers a Beer”

The visitor’s locker room is like home to Panic at the Disco. It’s their dressing room at the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, and there is the usual spread of chips, salsa and a big jug of Johnny Walker Red, all to help with the idle hours before showtime as Christmas lights blink in the corner. But the band is thinking about making music again. Panic bassist Jon Walker sits on a miniature amp with an electric guitar and begins strumming John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Guitarist Ryan Ross sits next to him in a pink tie and purple blazer, chewing on a bagel, but he soon moves to a small drum kit to tap out an anxious beat. “It’s funny how when you’re on tour you don’t really play music that much,” says Walker, “so we’re trying to make that happen again.” (Click above for exclusive backstage footage of Panic at the Disco). The October 10 date in L.A. is only the fourth night of a tour with Dashboard Confessional, Plain White T’s and the Cab, the first live road trip sponsored by the Rock Band video game. And Panic is keeping miniature amps, a little jazzman’s drum kit and a couple of guitars in their dressing room to work on songs for the next album, a follow-up to this year’s classic rock and pop-influenced Pretty. Odd. Another crucial bit of equipment are the burning the candles they bring to every arena locker room, says Walker. “Candles are a big must in arenas when the night before there were 40 Detroit Red Wings in the dressing room sweating it out.” Singer Brendon Urie sips a beer and drummer Spencer Smith is fresh from the shower. The band spent the last few weeks back and forth between their home base of Las Vegas and California — rehearsing at home, then out to L.A. to shoot a video for “Northern Downpour,” a few days of rehearsal and a show in San Diego, L.A. again for Last Call with Carson Daly, back to Vegas, Phoenix, Vegas and now in downtown L.A. In a few hours would be the tour’s first show to include Panic’s big video wall. “We’re going to film the sho

Published: 2008-10-15 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows, Videos, More News