Dashboard Confessional was started in 2000, by lead singer Chris Carrabba in Boca Raton, Florida, as a side project from his band Further Seems Forever.
After Carrabba released his solo EP, Drowning, Dashboard Confessional released their debut full-length The Swiss Army Romance in 2000, followed by The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2001), MTV Unplugged V2.0 (2002), A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar (2003), Dusk and Summer (June 27th, 2006), and The Shade of Poison Trees (released October 2, 2007).
Dashboard Confessional won the MTV2 award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2002 for their song Screaming Infidelities and have appeared on motion picture soundtracks for Shrek 2 (As Lovers Go), Spider-Man 2 (Vindicated) and Made of Honor (Stolen).
The current line-up consists of Chris Carrabba (vocals, guitar), John Lefler (guitar), Scott Shoenbeck (bass) and Mike Marsh (drums). As of 2008, they have released three EPs and five full-length albums. Their most recent single from The Shade of Poison Trees is “Thick As Thieves”.

The Kooks formed at the Brighton Institute of Modern Music in 2005, where they were all students. Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Luke Pritchard and bassist Max Rafferty formed the base of the band for a college project, and subsequently incorporated lead guitarist Hugh Harris and drummer Paul Garred. They chose a band name from the song Kooks of the 1971 David Bowie album Hunky Dory.

The Kooks released a debut EP and played at Brighton’s Free Butt festival, after which they were immediately signed to Virgin Records. Their debut album, Inside In / Inside Out, spent more than half of 2006 in the UK Top 20, attained triple platinum status, and has sold more than a million copies. Pritchard has claimed he wrote the hit song Naive when he was only sixteen years old. The group went on their first US tour in October 2006, selling out shows both in New York and Los Angeles. They also played at the Reading/Leeds festivals in the NME/Radio 1 Tent to a huge crowd. Among the band’s honours are a nomination for Best New Act at the 2006 Q Awards and the award for Best UK and Ireland Act at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards and had one nomination at The BRIT Awards and a shortlist nomination.

MGMT are an indie group formed in 2002 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Andrew Vanwyngarden, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, (vocals, guitar, keyboards) andBen Goldwasser (vocals, keyboards, synths, drums), both alumni of Wesleyan University. Originally the band was named “Management,” but it was later changed when they found out there were several other bands with that name. Their most popular songs are “Time to Pretend”, which has been featured on the motion picture “21” and on the TV shows “Skins”, Gossip Girl” & “90210”, (the music video has reached over 4,000,000 views on YouTube) and “Electric Feel”, their most purchased single on iTunes. Electronic Indie Dance Rock began as a thesis project from music majors at Wesleyan University. They used to be known as “The Management” with songs about not quite growing up and a lot of nonsense. Despite this, ‘MGMT’ is pronounced by saying each letter.

Arctic Monkeys are a British Indie band from High Green, a suburb of Sheffield. Formed in 2002, the band currently consists of Alex Turner on lead vocals and guitar, Jamie Cook on guitar, Matt Helders on drums and backing vocals and Nick O’Malley on bass guitar and backing vocals, who replaced Andy Nicholson. Their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, released in January 2006, was at the time the fastest-selling debut album in British music history. Arctic Monkeys achieved their success through fan-made demo tapes and online file sharing. They were heralded as one of the first acts to come to the public attention via the Internet, with commentators suggesting they represented the possibility of a change in the way in which new bands are promoted and marketed.

The Ting Tings are an English indie-pop band, consisting of two members: Jules De Martino (drums, guitar, vocals) and Katie White (vocals, guitar, bass drum). They were originally from Leigh. They formed in 2006 while based at Castle Irwell, Salford. They have released 3 singles on their current label Columbia Records and the single “That’s Not My Name” which charted straight at Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart on May 18 2008. The album We Started Nothing was released on May 19th, 2008 and also charted at Number 1 in the UK.