This week we’re launching the WOW247 playlist of the best new music.
Listen to this week’s selection, including Vampire Weekend, CHVRCHES, The Strokes and Conquering Animal Sound.
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In honour of David Bowie’s number one, we’ve chosen our favourite musical comebacks, including Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison.
Here’s DIIV, not sitting on the fence about SXSW… CSHi Austin. Fuck SXSW. There… I said it.
Here, the music comes last. 5 minute set-up, no sound check, 15 minute set. The “music” element is all a front, it’s the first thing to be compromised. Corporate money everywhere but in the hands of the artists, at what is really just a glorified corporate networking party. Drunk corporate goons and other industry vampires and cocaine. Everyone is drunk, being cool. “Official” bureaucracy and all their mindless rules. Branding, branding, branding. It’s bullshit… sorry.
-Cole
The Smiths scored their first UK number one album on this day in 1985 with Meat Is Murder.
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“After Elvis Costello’s third appearance [on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon], we liked him so much we were like, ‘Hey why don’t we make a record?’” said Questlove. “What went from being one song to be released on Record Store Day became ‘Why don’t we try four songs?’ Now we have a brilliant album.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/568e6037c4d0f913539e049c3bfd8d9c/tumblr_mil4qaI9T41qejocno1_500.jpg)
Muse have signed up to perform as the headline act at this year’s War Child Brit Awards Concert.
Frontman Matt Bellamy said: “We are proud to have a continuing association with War Child, who have been doing amazing work over the last 20 years. It’s great to see their efforts being recognised at this year’s Brits and we are really looking forward to playing this special show for them.”
The Who have announced a UK tour in which they will perform their 1973 double album Quadrophenia in its entirety - full details.
