The advance billing on Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was that Franz Ferdinand was pulling a hard left, dabbling in Afrobeat while teaming up with Turkish electro DJ Erol Alkan. That didn’t happen.

Need a few dance-punk anthems to get you through the day? These underrated Franz Ferdinand tracks are perfect.

Artistically always forging forward, their following albums, You Could Have It So Much Better (2005), Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (2009), Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (2013) and Always ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...

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 ...