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Alex Kapranos discusses the band’s new retrospective album and bringing drummer Audrey Tait onboard.

Moving on after the departure of founding member Nick McCarthy, frontman Alex Kapranos explains how his band invented a fresh identity for “Always Ascending.”

Going behind the flashing lights and breezy melodies with Deck d’Arcy and Christian Mazzalai.

The bandleader finally gets a break from the road. Not that he’s resting on his considerable laurels.

Everyone’s semi-charmed favorite ’90s rockers are back and playing to bigger crowds than ever. But the road from “Jumper” to Lollapalooza has more twists and turns than you might imagine—and it’s left some of the band’s founding members behind.

Getting a much-needed slice of humble pie with the Tennessee-via-Illinois country artist at the forefront of a Third Man–led traditionalist revival.

The Purple One puts together an intimate set at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre.

Producer Sunny Levine steps out from behind the boards on his collaborative LP.

The Tennessee–based singer-songwriter fights addiction, darkness, and death on her debut LP, “Sprained Ankle”.

Franz Ferdinand and Sparks’s collaborative project was one of 2015’s most fruitful partnerships. So where do the two groups—who are happy to consider FFS a band in its own right—go from here?