The Dodos
Features
Naming your band after an extinct bird is tempting fate, but San Francisco's Dodos went down a storm at this year's SXSW festival.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 12, 2008
Kasabian
Features
Kasabian have been in the news recently after booking 20 hotel rooms for their mates at the Creamfields festival, and the discovery that guitarist Serge Pizzorno has been sharing his back garden with an unexploded bomb.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: September 08, 2008
Festival preview: Creamfields, Warrington
Features
Though today indie and dance sit happily side by side, it's not too hard to remember a time when it wasn't quite the case.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 29, 2008
Leeds 2008 review: Lethal Bizzle
Features
Name: Lethal Bizzle
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 29, 2008
Reading 2008 review: Florence and the Machine
Features
Name: Florence and the Machine
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 29, 2008
Leeds festival
Features
Since 1988, when its sister festival at Reading saw Meat Loaf and Bonnie Tyler bottled off, Leeds has adopted a broader, more forward-looking musical policy, and has now become a contest between titans of rock and indie.
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 29, 2008
Leeds 2008 review: The Last Shadow Puppets
Features
Name: The Last Shadow Puppets
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Date Published: August 29, 2008
