NME — Alex Kapranos and band take on 'Passionfruit' Drake, Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand covered Drake‘s ‘Passionfruit’ during a live session in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Appearing on Canada’s The Strombo Show, ... more info

Consequence of Sound — A live performance from House of Strombo and a new visual for the Always Ascending track. more info

Stereogum — It's fun to watch new pop singles become modern standards. It happened a few years ago with Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" and again with Lana Del Rey's "Love" -- over and over again, when given a chance to cover someone else's material, artists chose ... more info

Stereogum — Franz Ferdinand are extremely good at being a band, and it's entirely possible that we don't talk about this enough. More than a decade on from the release of their debut album, long after the hype around them has died down, they still are finding fu... more info

NME — The Scottish band bring some sax-synth goodness to the screen Franz brought their new-look line-up to NYC for the first time, but sounded as good as ever as they treated the island to indie anthems 'Michael', 'Do You Want To' and 'Take Me Out'. ... more info

Consequence of Sound — Featuring an appearance from no wave pioneer James Chance. more info

Stereogum — Have you seen Franz Ferdinand live lately? It fucking rules. Seriously. Last year, the band played my sleepy Southern college town, and I was not prepared for them to be as good as they were. They were lithe and energetic and had hits for days, hits ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Priests are currently in California where they just played weekend 1 of Coachella. They've got an official Coachella Side show tonight (4/18) at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown, and will play weekend 2 on Saturday (4/21). After that, P... more info

Chorus.fm — The notable artists on your television this week include: Portugal. The Man (Kimmel; 4/17), Franz Ferdinand (Colbert; 4/18), Snow Patrol (Colbert; 4/19), Ice Cube (Corden; 4/17), and Jason Aldean (Ellen; 4/16). more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Franz Ferdinand are currently in NYC, having played their first of two Brooklyn Steel shows on Sunday night (4/15), as part of their Always Ascending tour... Continue reading… more info