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Franz Ferdinand

October 2022

  • Locked-in, intuitive … Franz Ferdinand perform at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse.

    Franz Ferdinand review – fierce fun from precision-drilled 00s survivors

    There is an enduring and endearing quality to Alex Kapranos and co, now 20 years in, their sound embedded in the UK’s psyche

August 2022

  • Celine : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week - Womenswear Spring Summer 2020<br>PARIS, FRANCE - SEPTEMBER 27: Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand attends the Celine Womenswear Spring/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 27, 2019 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

    Sunday with Alex Kapranos: ‘I like a slice of haggis in my fry-up’

    The musician on flower shopping in Hackney, how to brew green tea and the joy of a good pub lunch

March 2022

  • ‘Why are we recording this?’ … from left, Nick McCarthy, Paul Thomson, Alex Kapranos and Bob Hardy.

    How we made
    Franz Ferdinand on making Take Me Out: ‘We thought it would be funny to spoof Queen’

  • Bright future … Anna Mclauchlan during eclipse, Buchannan St Glasgow 1999

    Rip it up! Four decades of Glasgow’s art scene – in pictures

June 2019

  • Zdar performing with Cassius at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris.

    Cassius's Philippe Zdar dies in fall from Paris building

    French producer worked for acts including Phoenix, Kanye West and the Beastie Boys

September 2018

  • Adele joins the likes of Paul McCartney, Placido Domingo and Mike Leigh against the Silicon Valley giants.

    EU copyright law may force tech giants to pay billions to publishers

  • Franz Ferdinand at Festival No 6.

    Festival No 6 review – au revoir to an eccentric, magical gem

August 2018

  • Young Fathers

    Scottish Album of the Year: Mogwai and Young Fathers among nominees

    The Scottish music industry’s long list recognises 20 contemporary albums

February 2018

  • Alex Kapranos

    On my radar
    On my radar: Alex Kapranos’s cultural highlights

    The Franz Ferdinand frontman on the films on Yorgos Lanthimos, the electropop of the future and how he connects with home when on tour
  • Franz Ferdinand

    Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending review – feel the Caledonian funk

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    Franz Ferdinand: Always Ascending review – geometric diagrams of pop

January 2018

  • Lady Gaga.

    Unmissable culture of 2018
    Kendrick cruises, Wiley confuses and Gaga goes OTT: the essential pop for 2018

    Can Lady Gaga get away with murder? Will Kendrick Lamar stay on top? Are Franz Ferdinand set to blossom? And has Harry Styles’ transformation only just begun? We preview the new year’s pop highlights

November 2017

  • Fever Ray

    This week's new tracks
    Fever Ray’s To The Moon and Back: a kinky slice of squelchy synth-pop

    Also this week: Franz Ferdinand get lost without Nick McCarthy and Morrissey brings weaponised loneliness

September 2017

  • Gza, Rza and Bill Murray in Coffee and Cigarettes.

    How Jim Jarmusch used music to put a spell on Hollywood

    Jim Jarmusch doesn’t just stick music on top of his films – he weaves it into their fibre. A new concert series shows how his soundtracks give a voice to drifters and dreamers

November 2016

  • Donald Trump

    Pop goes Trump! The artists, comedians and meme-makers deflating the Donald

    From Franz Ferdinand to Samantha Bee, stars of pop-culture have been finding funny and furious ways to take aim at the Republican presidential nominee

April 2016

  • Alex Kapranos

    Fans and Franz Ferdinand line up to confess all in an #indieamnesty

    Indie veterans (and the occasional actual star) plead forgiveness for artistic, fashion and social no-nos made in the name of music

December 2015

  • Sleaford Mods: Jason Williamson, right, and Andrew Fearn. Nobody sticks it better.

    Readers recommend
    Readers recommend: songs that stick it to the man - results

  • Sufjan Stevens in his Brooklyn studio. Photograph: Annie Collinge for the Observer

    Best albums of 2015
    The best albums of 2015

August 2015

  • FFS

    FFS review – Sparks, and Franz, fly onstage

    The oddball electropop veterans and Glasgow indie’s archest hit it off live as much as in the studio

June 2015

  • Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who performing on The Pyramid Stage during the Glastonbury Festival, at Worthy Farm in Somerset. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Sunday June 28, 2015. See PA story SHOWBIZ Glastonbury. Photo credit should read: Yui Mok/PA Wire

    Glastonbury 2015: Sunday night as it happened – The Who, Paul Weller and Chemical Brothers

    It’s the last night of the festival, and it’s rock’n’roll night, with the Modfather and the Mod godfathers taking to the Pyramid stage
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