Music out today worth buying

* Switchfoot – Hello Hurricane
* Dashboard Confessional – Alter The Ending
* Wyclef Jean – From The Hut, To The Projects, To The Mansion

Other music out today

* Flyleaf – Memento Mori
* Hollywood Undead – Desperate Measures

Switchfoot - Hello Hurricane

We’ve giving away 1 copy of the new Dashboard Confessional Album, ‘Alter The Ending’, which comes out November 10th.

To win: List all the names of albums from our Twitter picture [below]. Please list all the visible album titles [along with band names] from left to right, top to bottom. First one to do this correctly wins a copy of the album.

Update: CONTEST IS NOW OVER.

Answers

Jon Foreman – Summer EP
Ted Leo – Shake The Streets
The Morning Light – Self Titled
Seabird – ‘Til We See The Shore
Limbeck – Self Titled
Jack’s Mannequin – The Glass Passenger
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Cassino – Sounds of Salvation
Leeland – Opposite Way
Sanctus Real – We Need Each Other
This Holiday Life – The Beginning Of The End
Eye Alaska – Yellow & Elephant
The Snake The Cross The Crown – Like A Moth To A Flame
Arthur – Loneliness is Bliss
Mat Kearney – Bullet
The Kooks – Konk
David Crowder Band – A Collision
Magnolia Sons – Jails Everywhere
Capital Lights – This Is An Outrage
Denison Witmer – Carry The Weight
Damiera – Quiet Mouth, Loud Hands
Death Cap For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Mute Math – Self Titled
The New Frontiers – Mending
We Shot The Moon – Fear And Love
Augustana – Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt
Driver F – Chase The White Whale
Anberlin – New Surrender
Boris Smile – Young And It Feels So Good
Copeland – Eat, Sleep, Repeat
Edison Glass – Time Is Fiction
Jeff Caylor – Okay
Jimmy Eat World – Chase The Light
Yuca – Self Titled

For those who don’t win you can pre-order the new album from iTunes here.

Closely resembling the feel of the successful mainstream album ‘A Mark A Mission A Brand A Scar’, the new record ‘Alter The Ending’ mostly lands on catchy pop while still mixing in some acoustic material. There’s not much here to bring out words like “brilliant”, but words like “boring” aren’t anywhere to be found either.

Listen to Dashboard Confessional

Song to start with: “Belle Of The Boulevard”

Chris Carrabba (or Dashboard Confessional) announced tonight that in November he will release a new record. That got me thinking, what is the best, or your favorite, Dashboard record so far and why?

My answer: The best Dashboard album to date is ‘A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar’. Everything about this record hit a sweet spot when it came out and holds up over 6 years later. Besides the obvious hits like “Hands Down”, which is flat out a good song either acoustic or with a band, and “As Lovers Go”, there are also my personal favorites like “Bend And Not Break” and “Crave Your Heart Out”. “Ghost Of A Good Thing”, which is an ode to his musical past and fans from the beginning, is able to bridge the gap from the previous album in a good way. Maybe it was the timing of this record in my life as well as his music making it big in the mainstream, but this album will probably always beat out the others.

Dashboard Confessional returns to a more acoustic based sound but more than anything this feels like a B-Side album with songs collected through the years.

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