Music
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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
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Visual artists and musicians pair up to create unique artworks for charity
Music Shaped, an initiative by In Place Of War, invites visual and musical artists to collaborate on one-off artworks
By Lisa Wright Published
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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
By Jonathan Bell Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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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
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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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
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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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
By Tianna Williams Published
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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.
By Lina Abascal Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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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’
By Craig McLean Published
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Exclusive: Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood reminisce on 30 years of Radiohead album art
As the pair’s back catalogue of album sleeves, paintings, musings and more goes on show at Oxford’s Ashmolean, Radiohead singer-songwriter Yorke and his longtime collaborator Donwood talk exclusively to Wallpaper’s Craig McLean
By Craig McLean Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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Mark Ronson and Raye team up on jazzy summer anthem, 'Suzanne'
The collaboration marks 150 years of Audemars Piguet
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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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
By Lisa Wright Published
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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
By Tianna Williams Published
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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
By Hannah Silver Published
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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
By Anna Solomon Published
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Taschen’s sexy record covers are hitting all the right notes
Taschen has been through 50 years of album art for its latest tome, ‘Sexy Record Covers’
By Hannah Silver Published
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Warp Records announces its first event in over a decade at the Barbican
‘A Warp Happening,' landing 14 June, is guaranteed to be an epic day out
By Tianna Williams Published
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See Kurt Cobain’s acoustic guitar on show in the UK for the first time
Kurt Cobain’s acoustic guitar goes on display at the Royal College of Music Museum in London as part of an exhibition exploring Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance
By Tianna Williams Published
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Lucy Dacus on her Renaissance-inspired new album cover and intimate museum tour
Lucy Dacus' fourth album, 'Forever Is A Feeling', is an intimate exploration of love with visuals inspired by the romanticism of classical art
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Inside the visual universe of Perfume Genius
From soggy paper towels to high fashion shoots – Mike Hadreas takes Wallpaper* on a visual tour of his back catalogue
By El Hunt Published
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The memento mori art inspiring Japanese Breakfast's new album
Singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast is inspired by 17th-century Dutch vanitas works for her new album cover
By Rachel Cabitt Published
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75 years of Atlantic Records captured in new photo book
From Aretha fixing her hair to Coltrane in his back yard, the label's rich legacy is told through stunning photography
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Stanley Donwood on decades of Glastonbury poster design
While Glastonbury fans huff and puff over this year's line-up announcement, we talk to the man responsible for designing the festival’s poster, for the last two decades
By Craig McLean Published


