After spending two years writing and recording his latest album, "Dusk and Summer," Chris Carrabba, lead singer and brainchild of emo-rock outfit Dashboard Confessional, is once again ready to bare ...

(DEDICATED TO my friend, Derek Jones, who sent me an Emo-textual quip: “I’m not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?”) “What’s purple and hums?” An electric grape. “Why does it hum?” ...