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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
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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’
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The charity record sale with a difference, Secret 7”, is back
The initiative sees 700 vinyls in one-of-a-kind record sleeves designed by world-class artists exhibited and auctioned to raise money for charity
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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
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The Barbican as muse: composer Shiva Feshareki on bringing the brutalist icon to life through music
For 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
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Self Esteem's Rebecca Taylor on taking her 'Complicated' new album to the West End stage
With a recent stint as Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret', the pop star has found a home on the West End stage. For her new album, 'A Complicated Woman', she's blending her two loves
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Inside Cercle Odyssey: the immersive new travelling concert experience
First launching in Paris, Mexico and Los Angeles, the ambitious project aims to bring the great outdoors to the gig space
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Thirty years after Dog Man Star, Brett Anderson looks back on Suede's album covers
Brett Anderson talks cover art, photography and iconic imagery
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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
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The year's most creative album artwork
While 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.
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Bringing Brat to life: we meet the designers behind Charli XCX's victory-lap tour
An exclusive interview with Cour Design's Jonny Kingsbury, the stage and lighting designer behind Charli XCX's new Brat tour
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A new Björk installation arrives at Centre Pompidou
An immersive sound piece by Björk and Aleph brings AI and ecological art together at the Centre Pompidou in Paris
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Bringing the audience in: why artists are building their homes on stage
From 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
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17 questions for Michael Kiwanuka
As he prepares to release his fourth album 'Small Changes', we ask Michael Kiwanuka some of life's important questions
