Franz Ferdinand set out to make a spoof of Queen-style arena rock when they wrote their 2003 hit, "Take Me Out".

Recently the indie act's frontman Alex Kapranos torched the Israeli Defense Forces for using their song 'Take Me Out' in a ...

How can we better understand and accept our fears? Indie rock band Franz Ferdinand is tackling this topic in their newest album, "The Human Fear". In the eleven songs of their sixth studio album, ...

Franz Ferdinand have released a new version of “Build it Up,” off this year’s The Human Fear, which features Johnny Marr on guitar. “Johnny is an inspiration. Literally,” frontman Alex Kapranos says. ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. It certainly doesn’t feel like a decade has ...

Franz Ferdinand are doing some touring in Europe and the UK this summer, but they’ll be without longtime drummer Paul Thompson. According to the band, he was injured when his finger was “crushed by an ...

Appearing on BBC Radio 2 with Jo Whiley, the band looked to play one of Roan’s songs. But before sharing their cover, Kapranos explained the stardom surrounding Roan and the success she created in ...

This FUV Live session is also available as a podcast, "FUV Live Sessions." We're elevating WFUV's long history of live sessions and interviews via a podcast that you can find on Spotify, Apple ...

Fast-Thinking Alex Kapranos Saves the Year’s Best Party From Overzealous Fire MarshalAddressing revelers on the balcony, the Franz Ferdinand singer’s voice took on the tone of an angry schoolmarm: ...

Franz Ferdinand is the name not only of the assassinated Archduke of Austria, considered the trigger for World War I; Franz Ferdinand is now a Scottish band that has made it big in Britain. Reviewer ...

In the bustling stampede of 2013's high-profile musical comebacks—a masterpiece from Kanye here, a 22-year-in-the-making release from My Bloody Valentine there, well-timed resurgences from the likes ...