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Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos
Scottish rock musician
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Sparks
Sparks
American rock and pop band
2
FFS
FFS
supergroup band
3
The Cribs
The Cribs
English indie rock band
4
Mogwai
Mogwai
Scottish post-rock band
5
1990s
1990s
British indie rock band
6
The Dykeenies
The Dykeenies
Scottish rock band
7
Nicholas McCarthy
Nicholas McCarthy
British musician
8
Bloc Party
Bloc Party
British indie rock band
9
The Blood Arm
The Blood Arm
band
10
The Fratellis
The Fratellis
Scottish indie rock band
11
Biffy Clyro
Biffy Clyro
Scottish rock band
12
The Verve
The Verve
British Rock Band
13
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Last Shadow Puppets
English supergroup
14
Belle and Sebastian
Belle and Sebastian
Scottish band
15
Kids in Glass Houses
Kids in Glass Houses
British band
16
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem
American alternative dance band
17
Bombay Bicycle Club
Bombay Bicycle Club
British rock band
18
Them Crooked Vultures
Them Crooked Vultures
band
19
Elbow
Elbow
English alternative rock band
20
Starsailor
Starsailor
English band
21
Kasabian
Kasabian
English rock band
22
The Cure
The Cure
English rock band
23
Editors
Editors
British band
24
The View
The View
Scottish indie rock band
25
Babyshambles
Babyshambles
English rock band
26
The Vaccines
The Vaccines
British rock band
27
The Von Bondies
The Von Bondies
American alternative rock band
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Manic Street Preachers
Manic Street Preachers
Welsh alternative rock band
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Arctic Monkeys
Arctic Monkeys
English rock band
30
Tame Impala
Tame Impala
Australian psychedelic rock group
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The Courteeners
The Courteeners
band
32
The Killers
The Killers
American rock band
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Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs
English indie rock band
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The Wombats
The Wombats
British band
35
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals
Welsh rock band
36
Muse
Muse
English rock band
37
Florence + the Machine
Florence + the Machine
British indie rock band
38
Boy Kill Boy
Boy Kill Boy
band
39
Friendly Fires
Friendly Fires
English band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
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Bastille
Bastille
English indie pop band
41
Jet
Jet
Australian band
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Metronomy
Metronomy
British electronic music group
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Placebo
Placebo
English alternative rock band
44
The xx
The xx
British indie pop band
45
Oasis
Oasis
English rock band formed in Manchester in 1991
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Twin Atlantic
Twin Atlantic
Scottish band
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Primal Scream
Primal Scream
Scottish rock band
48
Eleanor Friedberger
Eleanor Friedberger
American musician
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Edwyn Collins
Edwyn Collins
Scottish musician
50
Hard-Fi
Hard-Fi
Music band
51
Cage the Elephant
Cage the Elephant
American rock band from Bowling Green, Kentucky
52
The Bravery
The Bravery
American rock band
53
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher
British singer, songwriter and guitarist
54
The Strokes
The Strokes
American rock band
Members, past and present

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band's original lineup was composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Nick McCarthy (rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals), Bob Hardy (bass guitar), and Paul Thomson (drums, percussion, backing vocals). Julian Corrie (keyboards, lead guitar, backing vocals) and Dino Bardot (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) joined the band in 2017 after McCarthy left during the previous year. The band is one of the more popular post-punk revival bands, garnering multiple UK top 20 hits. They have been nominated for several Grammy Awards and have received two Brit Awards – winning one for Best British Group – as well as one NME Award.

The band's first two singles, "Darts of Pleasure" and "Take Me Out", peaked within the top-50 on the UK Singles Chart. "Take Me Out" charted in several countries and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal; it became the band's signature song. Their self-titled debut studio album won the 2004 Mercury Prize and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album.

In 2005, the band released their second studio album, You Could Have It So Much Better, produced by Rich Costey. It peaked within the top-ten in multiple countries and earned Grammy-nominations for Best Alternative Album and for one of the singles, "Do You Want To". The band's third studio album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, was released in January 2009; by then the band had shifted from a post-punk-focused sound to a more dance-oriented sound. A remix album of Tonight, titled Blood, was released in July 2009.

Four years after the release of Tonight, the band released their fourth studio album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, in August 2013. In 2015, Franz Ferdinand and American rock band Sparks formed the supergroup FFS and released a one-off self-titled album in June 2015. Following the departure of McCarthy, the band released their fifth studio album, Always Ascending, in February 2018.