Franz Ferdinand Announce First Shows in Three Years

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Franz Ferdinand have announced a new U.S. tour. The band were previously announced to perform at Governor’s Ball festival in New York City, and now will perform headlining shows in Baltimore, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Haven, Charlottesville, and more. Find their full itinerary below. Franz Ferdinand’s last studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, arrived in 2013. The new tour marks the band’s first shows since 2014; they toured as supergroup FFS alongside Sparks throughout 2015. Founding member and guitarist Nick McCarthy departed the group last summer. Most recently, frontman Alex Kapranos has been collaborating with members from Band of Horses, Midlake, and Grandaddy in a new supergroup called…