Dashboard Confessional is taking a trip back to the moment when emo found a much bigger room. The band has announced a 15-date 2027 Unplugged: 25th Anniversary Tour, revisiting the performance that helped turn Chris Carrabba’s intensely personal songwriting into a mainstream phenomenon.

The 2002 appearance on MTV Unplugged 2.0 arrived as Dashboard Confessional was gaining momentum behind its breakthrough album, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most. The performance captured an audience of devoted fans singing along to virtually every song — a scene SPIN revisited in its 2003 coverage of the session, and later highlighted in its ranking of the series’ best performances.

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“In a world where actual young people like Christina Aguilera sing about relationships with the weary cynicism of 40-something barflies, there’s something fresh and courageous about a song like ‘So Impossible,’ in which two kids awkwardly talk about maybe meeting up at a party later, flush with optimism, struggling to play it cool.” wrote Alex Pappademas. The album version of Unplugged gave Dashboard its first RIAA Platinum certification and its first No. 1s on Billboard’s Heatseekers and Top Independent Albums charts.

The 2027 tour will bring the band to 15 cities, beginning March 12 at Chicago’s Salt Shed, with tickets going on sale Nov. 13. Carrabba is also celebrating the announcement with a solo acoustic show tonight (Nov. 9) at the intimate Troubadour in Los Angeles.

“Dashboard Confessional’s Unplugged was a pivotal and unifying moment for the band and our fans,” Carrabba said. “I’m so excited to celebrate that moment in time.” He added that recent solo acoustic shows generated an “electric” response, and said he was eager to bring that spirit to larger venues with “the band arrangements from our original Unplugged performance.”

Beyond the stripped-down dates next year, Dashboard is also scheduled to tour with Hilary Duff and the Fray again in 2027. Fans can further enjoy Carrabba’s vocals on the song “Choosing Sides” from Split Lip/Chamberlain guitarist Adam Rubenstein’s new Spartan Records solo album, Firebreak.

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