In March 2009, USS released their first full-length album, Questamation , through their independent label, Smashing World Records. For the recording, the duo teamed up with Matthew Von Wagner ( Crystal Castles , Alpha Galates ) for production and engineering, while Chris Davies and Charles Topping ‘aided musically’. Music engineer…
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At the beginning of 2009, the band played a small club show at Madame Jojo’s in London , their first in the capital since the NME Big Gig the previous year. During the set, the band featured new songs “Imaginary Pleasures” and “In Silver Forest”, together with the previously aired…
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In February 2009, Glastonbury Festival announced Franz Ferdinand as the first major band playing at that year’s festival.
No Line on the Horizon was released in February 2009, more than four years after How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb , the longest gap between albums of the band’s career to that point. It received generally positive reviews, including their first five-star Rolling Stone review, but critics found it…
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” Wrong ” was the first single from the album, released digitally in February 2009.
The album, Tonight was released 26 January 2009 and debuted at No. 2 in the UK Album Chart and No. 9 in the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
On 26 January 2009, the band released their third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand , which they had been recording in Glasgow since mid-2007. The band recorded the album in a disused building in Glasgow that had been a town hall in the past. Alex Kapranos has stated that “The…
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On January 21, 2009, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z were the musical guests at the Obama Campaign Staff Ball at the DC Armory, at Obama’s request.
The song ” Ulysses ” was chosen to be the first single and was released on 19 January 2009.
On 15 January 2009, the official Depeche Mode website announced that the band’s twelfth studio album would be called Sounds of the Universe .