Franz Ferdinand's relatively quick rise is no hype job. They have arrived fully-formed, that rare combination of great hooks, smart looks, live prowess and swagger -- without all that messy pretension. Their songs are a delectable mix of rock, pop, disco and postpunk, a band not afraid to combine the nervy guitar funk of The Talking Heads and Orange Juice, the off-beat hi-hat accents of Moroder-era Blondie and the glam stomp of The Fall. HUGE hooks, I tell you. I mean, huge. Already a massive European hit w   [ read more ]

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A couple of years ago Bob, Alex, Nick, and Paul got a group together. They said that they wanted to make girls dance or something. Domino put out their first record Franz Ferdinand and they spent a year zipping around the planet, playing their tunes to millions of people. They picked up loads of prizes - Ivor Novello, Mercury Music, Brits, Grammy nominations, MTV awards etc, but more importantly, they made pop music a wee bit exciting again. They've just recorded a new record: You Could Have it so   [ read more ]

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Hark ?- is that the sound of the new Glasgow underground poking you in the eye? "Darts Of Pleasure" is the statement of intent which Franz Ferdinand have chosen to foist upon the world, and job's a good ?un. With one journo claiming this to be the most exciting debut record since The Strokes' "Is This It" (wait! come back!), you can see where he's coming from, although Franz have a more arty and angular approach to the New York floppy-haired bunch, and the B-sides sound like The Fall. On CRACK. And stuff. "   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 180 gram vinyl. Comes with free download coupon! Tonight: Franz Ferdinand "is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it, for the chemical surge in your bloodstream. It's for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again." - Alex Kapranos

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VINYL FORMAT. A couple of years ago Bob, Alex, Nick, and Paul got a group together. They said that they wanted to make girls dance or something. Domino put out their first record Franz Ferdinand and they spent a year zipping around the planet, playing their tunes to millions of people. They picked up loads of prizes - Ivor Novello, Mercury Music, Brits, Grammy nominations, MTV awards etc, but more importantly, they made pop music a wee bit exciting again. They've just recorded a new record: You Co   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 'While the Darts of Pleasure EP proved that Franz Ferdinand had a way with equally sharp lyrics and hooks, and the "Take Me Out" single took their sound to dramatic new heights, their self-titled debut album offers the most expansive version of their music yet. From the first track, "Jacqueline," which begins with a brooding acoustic prelude before jumping into a violently vibrant celebration of hedonism, Franz Ferdinand is darker and more diverse than the band's previous work su   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Drums of Death drops a squelchy spooky remix that has the kids going NUTS, Tigerstyle fuses Bhangra and dance with bomb results, and Lee Mortimer is on fire with a killer shouted chorus refrain to sock it to the crowds. A wide variety of remixes on here. Good shiz.

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Order Tonight: Franz Ferdinand and receive a free 11"x17" poster with your order (while supplies last)! Tonight: Franz Ferdinand "is music of the night: to fling yourself around your room to as you psyche yourself for a night of hedonism, for the dance floor, flirtation, for your desolate heart-stop, for losing it and loving losing it, for the chemic   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A couple of years ago Bob, Alex, Nick, and Paul got a group together. They said that they wanted to make girls dance or something. Domino put out their first record Franz Ferdinand and they spent a year zipping around the planet, playing their tunes to millions of people. They picked up loads of prizes - Ivor Novello, Mercury Music, Brits, Grammy nominations, MTV awards etc, but more importantly, they made pop music a wee bit exciting again. They've just recorded a new record: You Could Hav   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Single "Can't Stop Feeling" from Franz Ferdinand. B-side features the hard to find cover of LCD Soundsystem's "All My Friends."

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VINYL FORMAT. Upon completion of Tonight:Franz Ferdinand, the album's co-producer, Dan Carey, began to conduct a dub experiment with the tracks. And thusly, Blood was born. Comprised of eight radical revisions from Franz Ferdinand's acclaimed third album, this stand alone version includes a bonus ninth track as well: "Be Afraid."

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VINYL FORMAT. Double A-side single. "We recorded in Melbourne when we were playing with the Stooges and White Stripes on the Big Day Out. We found a great studio in St Kilda called Hothouse. It wasn't very big. Nick had to stand in a cupboard. The desk was the one that ACDC recorded their first records on. We finished it in a day. Lynsey is a girl we know from Glasgow. She's amazing, one of those people who can always put you in a good mood. There's something very whimsical about her, living her life like    [ read more ]

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