Franz Win the Mercury

Clad in their trademark black shirts and skinny ties, Glasgow dance rockers Franz Cheap Rosetta Stone Ferdinand were awarded Britains Mercury Music Prize Tuesday night in London. The $35,600 prize, broadcast on national television, is given to the best album of the year by a British or Irish band. Dizzee Rascal, last years winner, presented Franz with the award for their self-titled debut.Created in 1997, the Mercury often recognizes fresh talent, rather than commercial success (mega-bands like Radiohead and Coldplay have lost out to relative unknowns like Badly Drawn Boy and Dizzee Rascal). The independent panel of judges, headed by rock academic Simon Frith, whittled the 180 nominees down to twelve finalists in July. Among those on the shortlist were Franzs fellow Scots Belle Sebastian, teen soul singer Joss Stone, piano-and-drums rockers Keane, and hip-hop force (and two-time nominee) the Streets.Franz Ferdinand have already written half of their second album, which they promise will boast "very fast beats." They plan to record following their U.S. tour, which kicks off Thursday in New York City."We dont really get stagnant," bassist Bob Hardy told Rosetta Stone Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 last week. "We never stop working." She had learned various ways of relieving stress in the studio: chucking tea bags against the studio walls, for instance, or pretending that she was a horror-movie actress going crazy. The song-writer Linda Perry, who collaborated on four of Strippeds songs, suggested Aguilera simply scream at the top of her lungs. But sometimes none of these was enough. Now she knew another way. She asked a runner to go shopping for her and to bring back lots of glasses and lots of dishes. Shed do the rest.To read the full article, you must be a subscriber to Rosetta Stone Plus. Continue on to The Archives. "Theyll have the same intelligence," Toffler says. "Theyre the same boneheads sitting on the same couch, commenting on things through a really simple prism." He has no fear that younger viewers wont respond to the show. "Look how popular South Park and Family Guy are," he says. "These boys are beloved characters, and even if you didnt know them the first time around, it doesnt take more than 30 seconds to fall in love with Rosetta Stone French them."Photos: The Key Rosetta Stone Covers of the Nineties MTV plans to promote the program across multiple media platforms.

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