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After a four year respite since the release of Tonight, Franz Ferdinand is busy recording what will be its fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, due out on August 26 in the U.S. via Domino. Self-producing and recording in their own studio the band seems to be taking a very holistic approach to this record.

There are some rumors and murmurs on what the new album will have in store—just listen to the quick clip in the teaser video below—but the likelihood of hearing it from the source is next to nil. Kapranos is keeping this record on the DL for now as he feels the last record was tainted by a lot of pre-release “bullshit.”

Tracklist For Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action:
01. Right Action
02. Evil Eye
03. Love Illumination
04. Stand On The Horizon
05. Fresh Strawberries
06. Bullet
07. Treason! Animals.
08. The Universe Expanded
09. Brief Encounters
10. Goodbye Lovers And Friends

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We're coming up on the 10th anniversary of Franz Ferdinand's first single, "Darts of Pleasure," and the band have just announced details of their fourth studio album. Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action will be out on Domino on August 23 (a Friday, not your normal release day). What can we expect? "The Intellect Vs The Soul, played out by some dumb band," says frontman Alex Kapranos.

The band's last LP was 2009's Tonight: Franz Ferdinand. While no tracks have been released from the new record, you can check out a teaser trailer, cover art and tracklist below.

Franz Ferdinand recently played Coachella and will hit October's ACL Fest in Austin. All upcoming tour dates are listed below.

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It’s been almost a year since Beck released an album of non-recorded sheet music. On the Fourth of July, he’ll perform the material live for the first time during a star-studded concert at London’s Barbican, which promises appearances from Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Orton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and more, according to SPIN.

Meanwhile, Beck has a number of upcoming U.S. tour dates scheduled for this summer, where he’ll be previewing material from an upcoming acoustic record.

Beck 2013 Tour Dates:
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Right now, Titus Andronicus and the So So Glos are on the so-called “Bring Back The Dudes” tour, bringing sweaty and messy punk-rock singalongs to bars across this great nation. And both bands came together onstage to end a recent set at the New Orleans venue Siberia. The So So Glos guys drunkenly paid homage to their home borough (and Titus’s adopted home) by covering the Beastie Boys’ deathless “No Sleep Till Brooklyn,” tweaking lyrics while appropriate, while Titus frontman Patrick Stickles wandered around smoking and shaking a tambourine. This show looks fun as fuck, and the So So Glos guys have never looked more Bay Ridge than they do in the video below.

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Here’s a nifty vid of London’s young white answer to Louis Armstrong King Krule. He’s performing his most recent single Rock Bottom, complete with band, and judging by the watermark it’s for Fred Perry. Can’t escape the LADS!:

KING KRULE – Rock Bottom Sequence from De Facto on Vimeo.

Anamanaguchi is a boy band made up of hackers and producers born & raised on the Internet, currently living in New York City.

On May 14th, they [released] Endless Fantasy through their own brand new label, dream.hax - their first album since soundtracking Scott Pilgrim vs. The World in 2010.

The "boy band" will celebrate that album with possibly one of their biggest headlining shows to date in their "current" home of NYC at Irving Plaza THIS Friday (5/16) with Pictureplane and Hot Sugar. Tickets are still available. Get 'em while they're hot, sugar.

Meanwhile, you can also catch Anamanaguchi in a slightly more intimate setting at The Space in Hamden, CT tonight (5/16). It's the start of a tour that was recently extended throughout the summer. All dates, many with Chrome Sparks and Kitty Pryde, are listed below.

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Anamanaguchi @ BV-SXSW 2013 (more by Sarah Frankie Linder)

Anamanaguchi, who we were happy to host for a 2nd time at SXSW in Austin this year (watch their ENTIRE performance below), has also been keeping busy with a very successful Kickstarter related to their new album release. Head over there to add to the $176,317 they've already raised in 13 days and for more info. Head below for more album info, songs and videos to consume, and all tour dates...

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Following last year’s performance at Rough Trade East, Beck will pull together another indie supergroup for a performance of his sheet music album.

SPIN reports that Mr. Hansen will bring together Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, Beth Orton, and Charlotte Gainsbourg for his latest performance of his 108-page Song Reader.

Scheduled for a July 4 show at London’s Barbican, the assembled group will also include Joan as Police Woman, Villagers’ Conor J O’Brien, the Staves, the Guillemots, Michael Kiwanuka, James Yorkston, and the Pictish Trail, with more acts to be announced.

Earlier this month, Beck announced plans for a more conventional record with a new acoustic LP. The album was reportedly laid down in a

Jamie Lidell at Glasslands last month (more by Kyle Dean Reinford)

In addition to the previously discussed FREE Jamie Lidell show scheduled to take over Prospect Park on August 2 with co-headliner Dan Deacon, the dance-y Englishman has scheduled another, far more intimate show the day prior at Le Poisson Rouge on August 1. Tickets are on sale. The show is one of a few select dates for Lidell, all of which are listed below.

Lidell was recently the subject of a short documentary, Jamie Lidell - What We See Is What You Get and you can watch it below too.

Meanwhile, Dan Deacon was recently announced as part of FYF in Los Angeles. Also, his Record Store Day 2013 single, "Konono Ripoff Nº1," recently got the video treatment, and the clip involves an interactive element courtesy Dan's smartphone app. Check that out, along with his and Jamie's tour schedule, below.

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Last week, FACT TV sat down with French dance stalwart DJ Falcon as he prepared to play at London’s XOYO. 

Although Falcon

Bristol electronic duo Fuck Buttons will release their third studio album, Slow Focus, on July 23rd through ATP Recordings. The follow-up to 2009′s CoS Top Star-earning Tarot Sport marks their first self-produced effort to date and, as a result, promises to be “a first-person view through winding pathways set against a frequently aggressive and constantly evolving terrain.”

Following on from Part 1, here’s the second and final instalment of FACT’s alternative Eurovision Song Contest. 

As you’ll have seen yesterday, the premise is simple: our team of writers select an underground artist from each of the 39 countries participating in Saturday’s contest, and present a key track from each for your consideration and delectation. Part 2 contains a similar abundance of off-piste treats: Montenegrin beat music, Italian dream-pop, Belgian tape manipulation and, waving the flag for the UK, 8-bit grime from the Big Smoke.

Now that all the contestants are accounted for, we’re also giving you the opportunity to vote for your favourites - and, as we said before, political voting will be frowned upon. On Friday, we’ll reveal the full results: who soared, who flunked, who got nul points and who’s going to be hosting next year’s bash.

Click here to vote.

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Two hours with one of Detroit’s most crucial producers? Sign us up.

Little can be said about Carl Craig that hasn’t probably been covered in great detail already, and the pioneering Detroit techno producer is due to be stopping in at London’s Rinse FM tonight for a very special guest show. Craig will be running things for two hours from 7PM to 9PM GMT, and our bets are on him playing a few choice cuts from his upcoming Masterpiece triple CD.

The contribution to the Ministry of Sound series was announced back in April, but Craig has just revealed that the ‘mystery’ third disc will be a selection of entirely new isolationist modular synth compositions. Well, we’re excited.

For more information and to listen to the show live head here.

Emeli Sande and Calvin Harris also among those to take home gongs

Last year, Beck released Song Reader, an album that was only available as sheet music; it’s still the closest thing to a proper album he’s dropped since 2008′s Modern Guilt. Beck has resisted any and all requests to play songs from the album live, so we’ve only heard those songs in our imagination’s version of Beck’s voice, not in Beck’s actual voice. That’s about to change.

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