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How Miguel’s provocative set design brings tradition and revolution to the stage
The Grammy-winning musician opens up about collaborating with Tony-nominated scenic designer Riccardo Hernández to create the attention-grabbing set for his new Caos tour
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The Barbican has just announced a new late-night party series
‘Anyone Can Dance’ is a new late-night party series celebrating global club music, kicking off on 20 February with an after-hours takeover curated by Eastern Margins
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Lexa Gates and the art of going nowhere
To launch her latest record, Lexa Gates transformed the grind of modern music promotion into a ten-hour endurance artwork
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John Costi interrogates his fractured psyche with new Somerset House Studios show ‘Bapou’s Bubbles’
The artist discovered his creativity while imprisoned for armed robbery. Now, he’s hosting a surreal performance piece that speaks to the healing power of art
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Behind the scenes of OK Go's Grammy-nominated vinyl packaging
Indie-rock group OK Go have returned with an innovative new sound and look for their fifth album. We meet singer Damian Kulash to find out more.
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These ten albums had the best artwork of 2025
A plethora of new releases this year look as good as they sound. Here are our favourites
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Sean Ono Lennon debuts music video for ‘Happy Xmas (War Is Over)’
The 11-minute feature, ‘War is Over!’, has launched online; watch it here and read our interview with Sean Ono Lennon, who aimed to make a music video ‘more interesting’
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How C Prinz shaped the gothic new world of Charli XCX
Multi-hyphenate director and movement artist C Prinz unpacks the physical, instinctive and often brutal creative process behind Charli XCX’s new 'Wuthering Heights' era
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David Shrigley designs album cover for punk band Lambrini Girls
The limited edition release from the Brighton duo is available now
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14 of the best new books for music buffs
From music-making tech to NME cover stars, portable turntables and the story behind industry legends – new books about the culture and craft of recorded sound
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A new book on Paul McCartney’s 1970s band Wings documents an inside story of resilience and family
'It's a story about a family as well as one about a very famous musician', says author Ted Widmer
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Lighting designer Andi Watson on creating Mitski’s sculptural stage for 'The Land'
In Mitski’s live show and new concert film, a single beam of light becomes her dance partner. Lighting designer Andi Watson discusses turning shadow, movement and restraint into the architecture of feeling
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Inside the Centre Pompidou's last hoorah
After shutting its doors for five years of renovations, French record label Because Music saw the empty site as the perfect space for its 20th anniversary celebrations
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Artists reflect on Kate Bush lyrics for a War Child auction
Peter Doig and Maggi Hambling are among artists interpreting Kate Bush’s 1985 track ‘Running Up That Hill’ for War Child’s online auction
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In Taylor Swift’s new era, even the typeface has a story
The bold typography behind 'The Life of a Showgirl' started life as a student project in Nicaragua. Its designer didn’t set out to make pop history – but the Swifties found him anyway.
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How an artist’s expansive puppet world helped beat her sense of stage anxiety
Blair Tramel’s paper-mâché puppets have turned Snõõper’s punk shows into an immersive DIY universe, transforming stage anxiety into a joyous, all-welcome spectacle
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Jehnny Beth on the interdisciplinary, Lynchian world of new album ‘You Heartbreaker You’
From post-punk provocateur to solo auteur, Jehnny Beth unveils You Heartbreaker You – an ambitious album that blurs music, art and fashion into one uncompromising creative universe.
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Curtains up, Kid Harpoon rethinks the sound of Broadway production ‘Art’
He’s crafted hits with Harry Styles and Miley Cyrus; now songwriter and producer Kid Harpoon (aka Tom Hull) tells us about composing the music for the new, all-star Broadway revival of Yasmina Reza’s play ‘Art’
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A bespoke 40m mixed-media dragon is the centrepiece of Glastonbury’s new chill-out area
New for 2025 is Dragon's Tail – a space to offer some calm within Glastonbury’s late-night area with artwork by Edgar Phillips at its heart
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Glastonbury’s Terminal 1 is back: ‘Be prepared to be deeply moved and then completely uplifted’
Terminal 1 is an immersive, experiential space designed to deliver a vital message on immigration rights at Glastonbury 2025
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At Glastonbury’s reinvented Shangri-La, everything must grow
With a new theme for 2025, Glastonbury’s Shangri-La is embracing nature, community and possibility; Lisa Wright is our field agent
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Mark Ronson and Raye team up on jazzy summer anthem, 'Suzanne'
The collaboration marks 150 years of Audemars Piguet
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A song for the dead – Josh Homme on performing for six million souls in the bowels of the Paris Catacombs
A rock band, a brush with death and an underground tomb coalesce in haunting new Queens of the Stone Age film, ‘Alive in the Catacombs’. Wallpaper* meets frontman Josh Homme and director Thomas Rames
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Inside Medaina, an immersive music festival that rocked Petra
The otherworldly, five-day, two-location music festival offered a backdrop like no other, the historic sites of Petra and Wadi Rum in Jordan. Tianna Williams was there
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Gorillaz mark 25 years with an immersive new exhibition
Step into ‘House of Kong’, the virtual band’s exhibition coming to London’s Copper Box in August 2025 – watch the trailer and buy tickets
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Beck on his orchestral shows: 'It's something that can't be simulated by AI'
Following two nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, Wallpaper* meets Beck and conductor Edwin Outwater to hear how the pair brought to life Beck's back catalogue with an 80-piece orchestra
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Watch dance, music and film collide at a unique event at Abbey Road Studios
In this exclusive film, watch Abbey Road’s first Artist in Residence, Jordan Rakei, collaborate with industry-leading creatives to produce a dance performance in the hallowed Studio One
