Stereogum — Citing "all the bad news about the economy and the layoffs," Virgin Mobile has rebranded its fourth annual American music festival the Virgin Mobile FreeFest, and has reduced its price of admission from a lot of dollars to no dollars at all. An ex... more info

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Stereogum — You might have had enough "No You Girls" after its iPod commercial, but that didn't stop Franz Ferdinand from going Vanessa Beecroft and crafting an official video that included lots of guitar-gun mugging by the band and lots of leotarded butts from ... more info

NME — Franz Ferdinand, Blur, Razorlight – your music gossip stop more info

Culture Bully — Music video for "No You Girls" by Franz Ferdinand from the album "Tonight: Franz Ferdinand." more info

The Culture Of Me — Only available on the iTunes version of Blood, the new re-dub album from Franz Ferdinand, this remix from Trentemoller is joined on a bonus disc by reworkings by The Juan Maclean and Vince Clarke. This is the radio edit of the Trentemoller edit,... more info

BBC News - UK — A year after his controversial comments about Jay-Z playing the Glastonbury Festival, Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher takes aim at Franz Ferdinand. more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — After his controversial comments about Jay-Z at Glastonbury last year Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher has put forward his opinion on this year's line-up.In 2008 he said it was "wrong" to have a hip-hop headliner and said that was why the festival strug... more info

NME — Plus Franz Ferdinand have also slammed the party more info

Totally Fuzzy — CATASTO ELETTRICO said...2009 kills! Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies. After John Martyn and Ian Carr, 2009 is confirmed as a killer year...something unusual... Bone - Uses wrist grab (2003) Line-up: Nick Didkovsky / guitarHugh Hopper / bassJohn Ro... more info