The band has announced a nine-date jaunt to kick off December 3rd in Montreal, QC.
The tour will see the band preview their forthcoming album, ‘Tonight: Franz Ferdinand‘, due out January 27.
Among the dates announced are shows in Boston, Vancouver, Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego where they will wrap thing up on December 15.
The band dropped the tour to work on their sophomore album instead.
The band explained the reason behind the cancelation in a message posted on their MySpace page.
“It is with no little remorse and disappointment that we are compelled to cancel these dates.
The weeklong festival will run from February 24 through March 1, 2009 at venues throughout San Francisco, CA.
Also confirmed for the forthcoming event is a “special performance” by Antony and the Johnsons at Davies Symphony Hall.
Over 100 bands are set to take part in Noise Pop 2009.
More acts are still to be confirmed.
Bassist Adam Schlesinger recently told Billboard that the band hoped to release the new album sometime in 2009.
“We still have a ways to go, but we have eight songs that are relatively close to complete now. We’re looking to regroup after the New Year and do the second batch,” Schlesinger told Billboard.
“I think we’re trying some different things on this record, but we’re still the same band, to me. It’s kind of too early to say what direction it’s going to as a whole.”
The annual XMas concert will take place December 13 and 14 at the Gibson Amphitheatre, in Universal City, CA.
The fist night will see performances by The Offspring, Stone Temple Pilots, Rise Against, AFI, and more. The second night will see sets by The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Snow Patrol and more.
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Fans can preview the album in full via the band’s MySpace page.
‘Day & Age‘ was released today.
The short 3-day jaunt will see both bands’ play at colleges in Carrboro, NC, Gainesville, FL, and Nashville, TN.
All shows are open to the public with only a $5 entry fee.
The tour is sponsored by Green Label Sound, a singles only music label.
Both the Cool Kids and Matt and Kim released singles on the label this year.
The singles are free to download now via Green Label Sound’s website.
The single, which the band described to the Daily Record as “the most depressing Christmas single ever”, will be released December 22.
The single, ‘A Heady Tale‘, is taken off the band’s second album, ‘Here We Stand‘.
Frontman John Fratelli said of the single, “It has a Christmas-sounding melody with the most depressing sounding lyrics ever.”
The band will play dates next year while they continue to work on the follow-up to 2001’s ‘Rock Steady‘.
The announcement came via a transcript of a instant message conversation on the bands official website.
“I have cabin fever. Maybe we should play some shows or something,” wrote guitarist Tom Dumont.
“I’m down to play, it’s been too long.” replied bassist Tony Kanal.
“I think we should go out now. I don’t think we should wait. Pack up the babies and get a bunch of nannies. So fun! Would be so inspiring to get out there and play all those songs again,” added frontwoman Gwen Stefani.
No other details were given in the conversation, which you can read now on their website Nodoubt.com.
The music video was created by Tobias Stretch as part of the band’s Animated Video Contest, which asked fans to create videos for tracks off the band’ ‘In Rainbows‘ album.
MySpace will be premiering the remaining fan videos for ‘Weird Fishes‘ (just released), ‘15 Step‘, and ‘Videotape‘ over the next three weeks.
Last month saw the music video release of ‘Reckoner‘ created by Clement Picon.
