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Step inside Belle & Sebastian's visual universe, as the band turns 30This week, Belle & Sebastian will play the Royal Albert Hall to mark 30 years of the first two albums. Frontman Stuart Murdoch reflects on the bookish visuals that helped define a genre
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Designing the Pet Shop Boys: Mark Farrow on 40 years of creative collaborationAs a new history of Pet Shop Boys’ work, 'Volume: The Complete Visual Record', is published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of their first album ‘Please’, Wallpaper* sat down with Farrow for a rare PSB-oriented retrospective conversation
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David Byrne’s new tour asks the most radical question of all: how do we move together?After reshaping the modern concert with American Utopia, David Byrne returns with Who Is the Sky? – and a new choreographic collaborator in Steven Hoggett. As the UK leg begins, they discuss joy, unity and why love might be the most punk gesture left
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Abbey Road just held its first rave – and we were thereFollowing a three-day creative residency, Soulwax transformed music’s most hallowed recording space into a high-concept lab, ultimately premiering new music to 300 ravers
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Inside Danny L Harle’s Cerulean dreamscapeFrom North Sea forts to spaceships built in churches, new album Cerulean sees the electronic musician exploring isolation through sculptural sets, solitary video game mechanics and a quest for alien beauty
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How Miguel’s provocative set design brings tradition and revolution to the stageThe 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 nowhereTo 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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These ten albums had the best artwork of 2025A 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 XCXMulti-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 GirlsThe limited edition release from the Brighton duo is available now
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Visual artists and musicians pair up to create unique artworks for charityMusic Shaped, an initiative by In Place Of War, invites visual and musical artists to collaborate on one-off artworks
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14 of the best new books for music buffsFrom 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 hoorahAfter 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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In Taylor Swift’s new era, even the typeface has a storyThe 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 anxietyBlair 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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Exclusive: Thom Yorke and artist Stanley Donwood reminisce on 30 years of Radiohead album artAs 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
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A bespoke 40m mixed-media dragon is the centrepiece of Glastonbury’s new chill-out areaNew 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 growWith 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
