Music
Boundary-breaking artists at the cutting age of music
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At Glastonbury’s reinvented Shangri-La, everything must growWith 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 CatacombsA 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 PetraThe 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 exhibitionStep 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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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
By Jordan Bassett Published
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Watch dance, music and film collide at a unique event at Abbey Road StudiosIn 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 notesTaschen 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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Lucy Dacus on her Renaissance-inspired new album cover and intimate museum tourLucy 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 GeniusFrom 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 albumSinger 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 bookFrom 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 designWhile 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
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The charity record sale with a difference, Secret 7”, is backThe initiative sees 700 vinyls in one-of-a-kind record sleeves designed by world-class artists exhibited and auctioned to raise money for charity
By Anna Solomon Published
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Sean Ono Lennon on conceptualising the Grammy-winning reissue of John Lennon’s ‘Mind Games’A ‘Mind Games’ super deluxe box set, a no-expense-spared repackage of John Lennon’s classic third solo album, is designed to ‘occupy collectors for years’, says Sean Ono Lennon
By Craig McLean Published
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The Barbican as muse: composer Shiva Feshareki on bringing the brutalist icon to life through musicFor the last two years, British-Iranian experimental composer and turntablist Shiva Feshareki has been drawing on the Barbican’s hidden history as a gateway for her new piece. She talks to Wallpaper* about her Brutalist muse
By El Hunt Published
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Jack White's Third Man Records opens a Paris pop-upJack White's immaculately-branded record store will set up shop in the 9th arrondissement this weekend
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Inside Cercle Odyssey: the immersive new travelling concert experienceFirst launching in Paris, Mexico and Los Angeles, the ambitious project aims to bring the great outdoors to the gig space
By Lisa Wright Published
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Thirty years after Dog Man Star, Brett Anderson looks back on Suede's album coversBrett Anderson talks cover art, photography and iconic imagery
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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New Jay-Z coffee-table book dives into the Brooklyn rapper's archives'Book of HOV: A Tribute to Jay-Z' is a hefty tome for a hefty talent
By Craig McLean Published
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The year's most creative album artworkWhile the album cover may be less visible than it was in the age of the music megastore, it's still a vital part of the creative process. Here are our pick 2024's most inspired record sleeves.
By Lisa Wright Published
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Bringing Brat to life: we meet the designers behind Charli XCX's victory-lap tourAn exclusive interview with Cour Design's Jonny Kingsbury, the stage and lighting designer behind Charli XCX's new Brat tour
By Smilian Cibic Published
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A new Björk installation arrives at Centre PompidouAn immersive sound piece by Björk and Aleph brings AI and ecological art together at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
By Smilian Cibic Published
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Bringing the audience in: why artists are building their homes on stageFrom Sabrina Carpenter to Rex Orange County, artists are reimagining their stage sets as extensions of their own homes. Lisa Wright meets set designers Stufish to find out why
By Lisa Wright Published
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17 questions for Michael KiwanukaAs he prepares to release his fourth album 'Small Changes', we ask Michael Kiwanuka some of life's important questions
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Doc'n Roll Film Festival makes its loud return to the UKThe 11th edition of the Doc'n Roll Film Festival celebrates music, culture and cinema from around the world
By Smilian Cibic Published


