The Music Fix — News: Franz Ferdinand have just announced details of a UK tour in October. Dates are as follows: 11th - Aberdeen, Music Hall 12th - Dundee, Caird Hall 13th - Inverness, Ironworks 15th - Newcastle, Academy 16th - Sheffield, Academy 17t... more info

Gigwise — Tickets available through Gigwise... more info

The Quietus — Dates here more info

XFM.co.uk — The Scottish art-rockers will head to the O2 Brixton Academy in October for a one-off show. more info

NME — Band ready for new dates later this year more info

The Culture Of Me — Soundslags, a team of kids who hail from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (a place in the world that our typical American educational black holes forced us to Google) and who happened to have dropped a ridiculously sweet bomb on our minds thi... more info

The Mirror — Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos looking grumpy after a punter nicked his chips at the festival... Chemical Brother Ed Simons sweltering in a black leather jacket in the 100 degree heat backstage... more info

Rolling Stone — Franz Ferdinand singer Alex Kapranos was the first to point them out, as he overlooked the many thousands gathered Friday for the opening of this year’s Coachella Music and Arts Festival. There in the crush was a young Morrissey fan with “a perfe... more info

NME — The Scottish band deliver a rousing set as the sun goes down more info

NME — Paul McCartney, Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand to kick off desert festival more info