AngryApe — The band line-up a pair of shows in the new year more info

ContactMusic — Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand are to open the 2009 Shockwaves NME awards shows, it has been confirmed.The art band will headline the first show of the tour ... more info

NME — Franz Ferdinand have announced that they will play several North American dates in December. more info

Q4Music — Probe the band ... and win 25 pounds more info

Clickmusic — Metronomy and Simian Mobile Disco also announced for the series of gigs in the new year. more info

Guardian Music — Orbital will reunite at next year's Big Chill, the festival has revealed. The historic announcement comes one 200th of a millennium, one 20th of a century, half a decade - OK, just five years - after the electronic duo broke up."It's not an exercise ... more info

Reuters - Franz Ferdinand's 2005 album may have promised "You Could Have It So Much Better," but the sales figures begged to differ -- the band's second album failed to match the transatlantic success of its self-titled predecessor. more info

Yahoo! Music — Reuters - Franz Ferdinand's 2005 album may have promised "You Could Have It So Much Better," but the sales figures begged to differ -- the band's second album failed to match the transatlantic success of its self-titled predecessor. more info

Reuters — NEW YORK/LONDON (Billboard) - Franz Ferdinand's 2005 album may have promised "You Could Have It So Much Better," but the sales figures begged to differ -- the band's second album failed to match the transatlantic success of its self-titled predecesso... more info

Stereogum — For a couple nights before Christmas, KROQ's putting on their Almost Acoustic Christmas event at the Gibson Ampitheater in Los Angeles. One evening's heavier (AFI, Offspring, etc.) and one's only heavy emotionally (the Cure, the Killers, Death Cab, F... more info