Franz Ferdinand
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Franz Ferdinand will release their second, self-titled album on October 4. The Scottish dance-rockers have also announced a month's worth of North American tour dates surrounding its release, beginning in Chicago on September 20 and winding up in Toronto on October 18. The band will play a two-night stand in Seattle on October 1 and 2. MTV.com reports the album's lead single will be "Do You Want To?" and that the group will shoot a video in New York later this month.Nine Inch Nails' video for "Only," directed by David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room), will debut on MTV2 all day tomorrow (July 12). NIN have also added more dates to their upcoming fall tour with Queens Of The Stone Age, which now extends until November 19 in West Valley City, UT.
Speaking of MTV, a concert special on The White Stripes will debut this Wednesday at 1 a.m., and also run on MTV2 at 8 p.m. The concert was filmed in Brazil at the Teatro Amazones, which is an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Also, the Detroit duo will play an intimate concert at the Glass House in Pomona, CA on July 28.
Ringo Starr is disappointed that he wasn't invited to take part in Paul McCartney and U2's Live 8 performance of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." According to contactmusic.com, the ex-Beatles drummer said, "I was never asked to do it, he didn't ask me. It's too late now - it's disappointing. But I would have only done it if I'd been able to wear my Sgt. Pepper suit."
An all-star line up will pay tribute to Queen on an upcoming album simply titled Killer Queen: A Tribute. American Idol runner-up Constantine Maroulis will cover "Bohemian Rhapsody," as will The Flaming Lips. Other artists appearing on the album include Gavin DeGraw ("We Are The Champions"), Sum 41 ("Killer Queen"), Joss Stone ("Under Pressure"), Breaking Benjamin ("Who Wants To Live Forever"), Eleven with Josh Homme ("Stone Cold Crazy") and all-female band Antigone Rising covering "Fat Bottom Girls." Killer Queen arrives in stores on August 9.
Patti Smith was honored by France over the weekend for her influence on Rock music. The BBC reports that Smith was given the Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters by Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, and that she is planning her next album, which will be entirely covers of songs by Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead and others.
Filter main man Richard Patrick reports on the band's official Web site that they have been writing and recording new music for the follow-up to 2002's The Amalgamut.
