Lucinda Williams and Hamilton Leithauser will support on select dates. Franz Ferdinand are on tour in support of this month’s The Human Fear—their first studio album in seven years.

The Cowboys’ cheerleaders signal America and Texas: a land of bespoke cults honing craft in private before exerting themselves in public. In this case, we see a cult of young women who dance in ...

Taking a cue from Talking Heads and Gang of Four, Franz Ferdinand combined art rock with danceable grooves. When punk rock evolved to its later form, musicians had replaced speed and angst with ...

The good: Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand are back with their sixth (first in seven years). The bad: Nope. And “Fear” was worth the wait. The nitty gritty: Not resting on their laurels ...

The Scottish band Franz Ferdinand has been an established name in the music business for 20 years. Now the Glaswegians are releasing their sixth album all about the topic of fear. Fiona Torre ...

Sure, alternative and nu metal experienced their own halcyons, and, yes, the aughts experienced a small boom of critical darlings, some of which crossed over into pop fame (like Franz Ferdinand or ...

Franz Ferdinand brought their Human Fear tour to the stage at HISTORY in Toronto Tuesday night (I wonder if they ever thought that they would end up being more popular than the Archduke of Austria).

some of which crossed over into pop fame (like Franz Ferdinand or the Strokes). But rock at large today lives far from culture’s centre, and more so since the economics of streaming hollowed out ...

Come on home, because Franz Ferdinand has announced a new run of U.S. shows, which will take bring to Tampa Bay this fall. Last year marked 20 years since the Scottish rock outfit released its ...

Rio Ferdinand has revealed that he told his former club Manchester United to sign Declan Rice “at all costs” before Arsenal landed him from West Ham. Rice made 245 appearances for the Hammers ...

Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has overlooked Kevin De Bruyne and Frank Lampard in naming his top three greatest midfielders in Premier League history. Ferdinand asserted that De Bruyne ...