In February 2009, the band signed with indie label Jagjaguwar . The band’s first release on the new label was an album titled Farm which was released on June 23, 2009. Murph said the album was recorded at Mascis’s home and marked a return to the heavier, Where You Been…
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In February 2009, the band introduced their Fancorps Street Team as a way for their fans to become more involved with the band. In March, the band released their first animated video for their single, ” Ghost Town. ” The animation was completed by well-known illustrator Glen Hanson.
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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In February 2009, Yauch revealed their forthcoming new album had taken the band’s sound in a “bizarre” new direction, saying “it’s a combination of playing and sampling stuff as we’re playing, and also sampling pretty obscure records”. The tentative title for the record was Tadlock’s Glasses , of which Yauch…
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In February 2009, it was also announced that Alice in Chains would play at the third annual Rock on the Range festival.
They also joined Thursday , Cancer Bats , Four Year Strong and Pierce the Veil on the North American leg of the 2009 Taste of Chaos tour from February to April after the tour’s organizer Kevin Lyman offered them the slot.
In February 2009, Glastonbury Festival announced Franz Ferdinand as the first major band playing at that year’s festival.
In February 2009, My Chemical Romance released a new single titled ” Desolation Row “, a cover of the Bob Dylan song. It was recorded to feature as the end credit track for the 2009 film Watchmen , an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name . While…
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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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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.