July 12, 2006

Thievery By The Dashboard Light?


Albums have had similarities since day one, but in 2006 with copyright laws protecting nearly everything that has grown past its idea stage it’s getting rarer to see the straight copying of someone else’s work (except during high school testing periods). This is what makes my most recent discovery so strange. Yesterday Dashboard Confessional’s latest album, Dusk and Summer, arrived in the mail and on first look it reminded me greatly of my friend Jim Wolf’s No Sleep What-So-Ever album, which was released in 2005. Wolf is an up and coming artist from Fairfield, Connecticut, who I’ve known for a few years now, but is it possible that the Dashboard Confessional folks jacked his album cover art? The answer is a surprising yes. Read it...

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