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Franz Ferdinand are cowing to years' worth of shouting a-hole's frustrations and playing a set list made entirely of fan requests for their set at the BBC Radio 6 Music festival. Read More »
Franz Ferdinand have released "Bullet", the latest music video from their new album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. Read More »
It's been a little while since indie rock band Franz Ferdinand has made an album. Their last record, "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand" was released in 2009, which was more a less a completely different world. President Barack Obama was still a young new whippersnapper of a leader. Twerking was kept underground. "50 Shades of Grey" was just something painters thought about. Now, it's a whole new place out there. Read More »
Indie rock band Franz Ferdinand are going hard promoting their new album 2013 "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action" before the record’s release on Aug. 27. After teasing their record announcement, releasing a video for “Right Action” and performing a live, streaming set at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, the “Take Me Out” band have released a music video for "Right Thoughts’" supposed second single, “Love Illumination.” Read More »
The Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York got a little taste of Scotland last night, when indie rock group Franz Ferdinand rocked the legendary stage with a 48-minute concert promoting their upcoming fourth studio album "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action." Read More »
Last week, we brought you the first snippets of new music from Franz Ferdinand's new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action. While both "Love Illumination" and "Right Action" were released, it appears only one of them can get a music video. "Right Action" now has a bouncy, arty clip to match the Scots' jangly rock. (Oh, did we mention that Jonas Odell, a.k.a the guy who directed "Take Me Out," also helmed this vid? Cause it's kind of important). Read More »
Beck, ever the experimental musician, threw his fans for a loop when he released a new album last year. Instead of taking the form of 12 songs performed by the "Loser" himself, Beck's most recent effort was made up entirely of sheet music. It was unknown whether of not Beck would ever perform the songs for himself, but last night (July 4), he finally played the Song Reader in full at a concert in the U.K. Read More »
Indie band Franz Ferdinand's long-awaited fourth studio album won't be released until late August, but that hasn't kept the band from teasing fans with new videos. Read More »
The Coachella Music Festival just wrapped up its 2013 edition in India, California in April but the festival has already announced its 2014 dates on its website. Read More »
The Scottish pop indie band, Franz Ferdinand, who gave us hits like "Take Me Out" and "Do You Want To" are almost ready to release their new album entitled Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions. The four guys (Paul Thomson, Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, and Bob Hardy) who "met in Glasgow, UK and started a band," have set the release date for their upcoming LP: August 27th in the US and August 26th in the UK via Domino, reports NME. They also revealed the tracklist and cover art for their new album, which includes a "handful of cuts during a recent intimate gig at the Glasgow venue Nice 'N' Sleazy." The lead singer of Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos, tweeted on May 16th "Here it comes..." and posted the link to the trailer video (see below) for Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions. It will be the band's first studio album since 2009's "Tonight," which debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, states Billboard. Read More »
Fans of Beck's latest "album" Song Reader may soon be hearing Beck perform the tracks for the first time. Beck has enlisted a group of superstar musicians to help him perform Reader, an album that the folk-pop troubadour released as sheet music. If you wanted to hear Beck's new music, you had to play it yourself, until now. Read More »
On tour in Russia over the weekend, two rock bands spoke out in support of fellow musicians and members of the band Pussy Riot, who are currently residing in a Moscow prison for promoting "hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred." Read More »
