Massive Attack were scheduled to perform at the second day of Mad Cool Festival in Madrid yesterday, but they ended up cancelling their set due to noise interference. "Massive Attack has just cancelled its Mad Cool Festival concert, scheduled to be held at The Loop, claiming that the sound of the stage where Franz Ferdinand…

Frontman Alex Kapranos and drummer Paul Thomson on Franz Ferdinand's live plans for 2018 - and the band's mutual love affair with Mexico.Alex Kapranos is wearing a jacket with Day of the Dead-style skulls embroidered on the chest, and that’s not the …Continue reading »The post Franz Ferdinand talk life on the road at Mexico&...

Alex Kapranos and band take on 'Passionfruit'Drake, Franz Ferdinand's Alex KapranosFranz Ferdinand covered Drake‘s ‘Passionfruit’ during a live session in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Appearing on Canada’s The Strombo Show, Alex Kapranos and …Continue reading »The post Watch Franz Ferdinand cover Drake in To...

Franz Ferdinand are extremely good at being a band, and it's entirely possible that we don't talk about this enough. More than a decade on from the release of their debut album, long after the hype around them has died down, they still are finding fun and inventive ways to engage in the task of…

It's fun to watch new pop singles become modern standards. It happened a few years ago with Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" and again with Lana Del Rey's "Love" -- over and over again, when given a chance to cover someone else's material, artists chose those.