My favorite album of 2009 so far is Franz Ferdinand's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , so nothing was going to come between me and seeing them up close. They were a treat, too: lead singer/songwriter Alex Kapranos is an animated performer, making faces, waving his arms, popping up and down, and even balancing on top of the bass drum. He spread out his arms and got sections of the audience to sing the la-la-la's on "40 Feet." Photo above by Indie Mom They played only four songs from the new album: [...]
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doves.net Consistency is no great fault, particularly when the standard that one rarely fails to meet is as high as it is for Britain's Doves . For nearly a decade, since their 2000 debut Lost Souls , the trio has turned out an album of classic-sounding, widescreen, melancholic space-rock every few years, each of which manages to expand and build on that which came before to some degree, but never coming up with the watershed record, the game-changer, the quantum leap forward. Some might argue that Lost Souls was that record, one [...]
Catch 'em this October at: Aberdeen Music Hall (11) Dundee Caird Hall (12) Inverness Ironworks (13) Newcastle Academy (15) Sheffield Academy (16) Manchester Apollo (17) Wolverhampton Civic Hall (19) Leeds Academy (20) London Brixton Academy (23) Over the weekend, FF released a live clip for 'What She Came For'. Franz Ferdinand recently dropped by Jimmy Kimmel to tackle 'No You Girls'. MP3: Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (Mr. [...]
It's officially a proper start to the summer festival season with today's first day of Coachella underway as I type this. The lineup didn't necessarily blow me away this year, so thankfully for my skin and my pocketbook I won't be in attendance. But I will get to enjoy some of the action from home thanks to the ever-present corporate webcasting giant, AT&T. Over on their new iteration of the Blueroom is a site called AT&T Music , and they'll be webcasting all weekend from Coachella. Tune in today at 2:50pm PST when [...]
Franz Ferdinand perform "No You Girls" on the April 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Enjoy a recent performance of Tonight's 'What She Came...' in the clip below. MP3: Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer
Enjoy last night's stellar performance of 'No You Girls' in the clip below. MP3: Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Acoustic)
Who do you trust; trust no one; you have to trust someone, put it all in a trust (whoops, not that last one). I lost count at 20 when trying tally up the number of times the word 'trust' came up, but I'm guessing it was upward of 30. Any guesses as to the theme? Quick thoughts and music from the episode to follow... Anyway, aside from the trust issue, I'm enjoying where Chuck is taking us. We got a little better look at Fulcrum, Emmett used Morgan to take over the Buy More, [...]
Next week, Lucky Man brings the hyper-thyroidal pent-up megalomaniacal punkpop of Franz Ferdinand to Phoenix to shake this city's recession-wracked, home-closured netizens into an uptempo sort of spast-A-city. Temporarily. And I'll try to be the old guy in the back nodding his head. and tapping his foot. And remembering the old days . I like Franz Ferdinand . I saw 'em back in the mid-decade on their first flit around the US. They're energetic, they rock, they play well and they maak show. All in all, a good thing. And they'll probably play [...]
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The biggest surprise of the tale of Franz Ferdinand turning down an unnamed, yet "famous," Mexican fast-food chain: The song the ad company wanted wasn't "Take Me Out." (Says Alex Kapranos: "They asked if they could use our song Bite Hard and I think the idea was people were going to be biting into their chili enchilada while the song was in the background." Mmm... crunchy.) [ ContactMusic ; HT TDS ]
Allora facendo brevemente mente locale mi vengono in mente le versioni di: The All-American Rejects , Lily Allen e Ladyhawke . Ma vi giuro che non mi stupirei molto se navigando un po' in rete scoprissi che ne esistono anche altre di cover di Womanizer , il brano che forse più di altri ha segnato il ritorno di Britney Spears . Stavolta è il turno dei Franz Ferdinand che durante il live registrato nella splendida trasmissione BBC's Live Lounge hanno registrato l'ennesima cover del brano. Le ragioni della [...]
Enjoy last night's performances of 'Ulysses' & 'No You Girls' in the clip below. MP3: Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls (Acoustic)
Franz Ferdinand perform "No You Girls" and "Ulysses" on the April 7 episode of Later... with Jools Holland.
"It's been the best song out in the last few months." said Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos. The band has joined in the fun in playing the most covered track of the year, Britney Spears' "Womanizer". The performance, together with their latest single "No You Girls", was recorded for BBC's Live Lounge . Franz Ferdinand created a version with a sound of their own - Brit-pop synths, funky vibe and Kapranos' trademark vocal. And they actually bridge into one of their earlier track "Shopping for Blood" after the midpoint of the song, which is surprisingly [...]
Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer Quite possibly the best Britney cover of them all! Watch Franz Ferdinand's clip for 'No You Girls' here. Tonight debuted within Billboard's Top 10 in February. MP3: Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer
Wildflowers Check it out! Today I'm just showing off my wildflower photos, but this photo gallery is going to help me get my concert reviews up faster, and I'll be able to display more photos without overwhelming [...]
Ottimo mash-up fra la pasticceria e la cover art da parte di un amico nipponico fissato con la musica e le meringhe. Esegue riproduzioni (fatte a mano, altro che soliti stampini) delle copertine della maggior parte degli album. Unico requisito: che sia musica indie . E, almeno in quello che ci mostra via blog del suo portfolio (oltre al processo di produzione ), fra Franz Ferdinand e Jason Mraz , anche musica di buona qualità. Via | jakeben.blog Torte nuziali con copertine degli album
MTV World Stage - capitolo cinque: eccoci giunti al consueto appuntamento con la grande musica live trasmessa in contemporanea mondiale sulle 162 filiali del canale musicale. Stasera a godersi 60 minuti di spettacolo in alta definizione saranno gli appassionati dell'indie e più in particolare dei Franz Ferdinand . Alex Kapranos e i suoi compagni sono stati ripresi durante l'esibizione del 27 febbraio scorso al "Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias" di Valencia, Spagna, davanti a 40mila spettatori gasatissimi. La band era ad una delle prime uscite [...]
Lady Gaga might actually be one of the performers lined up to sing at this year's Glastonbury Festival , according to what I've heard. After conquering the pop charts, Gaga might do the festival thing. Hey, it worked for Kings Of Leon , didn't it? Gaga says, "I can't wait for the festival season. Especially muddy Glastonbury." Hint, hint! She adds, "I love all that. I played the Lollapalooza festival [...]
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