with guest Katy Rose

Track list:

We Are Scientists – Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt (With Love and Squalor)
John Martyn – Sweet Little Mystery (Couldn’t Love You More)
Four Tet – Angel Echoes (There Is Love In You)
Yeasayer – Rome (Odd Blood)
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This))
Pizzicato Five – Twiggy Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond
Gorillaz – Superfast Jellyfish (Plastic Beach)
Maximo Park – Acrobat (A Certain Trigger)
Franz Ferdinand – All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover)
Shearwater – Black Eyes (The Golden Archipelago)
Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind (part 2) (The Element of Freedom)
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook (Með suð I eyrum við spilum endalaust)
Stereophonics – Local Boy In The Photograph (Word Gets Around)
Mount Eerie – Wind Speaks (Wind’s Poem)
Emmy The Great – Dylan (First Love)
David Thomas Broughton – Ever Rotating Sky (The Complete Guide To Insufficiency)

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Scottish dance punk group Franz Ferdinand released their third LP, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, last year to reception considerably more tepid than that of their first two blockbusters, 2004′s self-titled debut, and 2005′s Alexander Rodchenko-inspired You Could Have It So Much Better. Despite the large gap between LPs two and three, it seems the band is already preparing new material. In an interview with the BBC, frontman Alex Kapranos discussed writing sessions that had taken place at the house of the band’s guitarist, Nick McCarthy. “We’ve been writing some things, and trying to do things in a different way again,” Kapranos said.

The band is also now wary of press and promotion as a means of building up false hype. “Before the last record, I talked far too much about it as we had the ideas and I made a vow that I wasn’t going to say anything about what we are actually doing until we’ve done it, and then wait about another three weeks,” Kapranos added. So don’t expect some kind of iamamiwhoami build-up, then.

Franz Ferdinand are headlining the Future Music Festival in Australia which begins in Brisbane on February 27.

Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
[Domino; 2009]

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Looks great, especially compared to the initial version. Additionally, you can use the enlarged version that was posted on the Franz Ferdinand myspace as wallpaper.
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Los Angeles’ KROQ (106.7 FM) has announced the full lineup for their annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concert. This year’s two-night bash will take place December 13-14 at the Gibson Amphitheatre. The Offspring will headline the first night, which also features Stone Temple Pilots, Rise Against, and Three Days Grace. The far more appealing second night features the likes of the Cure, the Killers, Death Cab, and Franz Ferdinand.

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, December 13:
The Offspring
Stone Temple Pilots
Rise Against
AFI
Staind
Three Days Grace
Slightly Stoopid
Hollywood Undead

December 14:
The Cure
The Killers
Death Cab for Cutie
Paramore
Franz Ferdinand
Scott Weiland
Snow Patrol
Vampire Weekend

Tickets information for both nights will be announced soon.

The Scottish group debuted two new songs during their October 8th gig at Brooklyn’s Music Hall. The two songs were called “Ride Together” and “Ulysses”. According to Billboard, the new material see’s the band going in a new direction – with the band replacing their usual sound for “funked-out basslines and R&B-like breakdowns.”

At the show, lead Singer Alex Kapranos said the new album is called Tonight and will be released January, 2009.

Via Billboard

Other confirmed tracks off the album are:

“Bite Hard”
“Katharine Kiss Me”
“Turn It On”
“What She Came For”
“Lucid Dreams”

-Brent K.

Franz Ferdinand have completed their third album, set for release in early 2009. Supposedly, it is slower, but has more dance influences than their previous self-titled and You Could Have It So Much Better albums. Alex Kapranos said that:

The last record was fast, furious, frantic, 150 BPM. It was like a teenager having sex. This one’s a bit more assured and a bit friendlier for the dancefloor. It’s about 104/105bpm. It does sound different, and there are different instruments on the record, different tempos, a different attitude to making it. But it’s always going to sound like a Franz Ferdinand record when it’s the four of us making it. It’s very much a dance record again this time.”

No title or release date or confirmed tracks just yet, we’ll keep you posted.

via NME

-Ryan N.