“Time’s Up” lets its floaty harmonies, complex beat, and expansive synths take center stage. While the lyrics sit low in the ...

Franz Ferdinand are back with a new track, “Billy Goodbye,” which will appear on the Scottish outfit’s upcoming compilation, Hits to the Head, out March 11 via Domino. “Billy Goodbye” finds Franz ...

Fear is the mind killer, as anyone who’s read Dune knows, but for Franz Ferdinand it’s inspiration. Various forms of foreboding informed every song on the Scots’ upcoming sixth studio album The Human ...

Franz Ferdinand is one of those arch little bands that music magazines like Spin love to name-check. Like so many groups-du-jour, Franz Ferdinand hang around on a kind of listener's "to-do" list of ...

It’s an overcast afternoon when Alex Kapranos joins our Zoom call from his hotel in Portland, Oregon, but he doesn’t seem to mind. If anything, it reminds him of Glasgow’s own trademark cloudy skies.

Franz Ferdinand have resurfaced after a year away from performing - playing five new tracks at a small gig in Glasgow. The band played at the Grand Ole Oprey Country And Western Club in their home ...