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Left: Comets on Fire at the Arthurfest, Los Angeles, 2005. Bassoons, flamenco, monks’ cowls… welcome to the new rock underground Julian Cope explains why heavy metal, so often maligned, is at the heart of today’s rock avant-garde Julian Cope Friday August 18, 2006 The Guardian IN APRIL THIS YEAR, after my half-hour stint as a [...]

Continuing the cover art theme, here’s a whole gallery of covers devoted to one book only, HG Wells’ The War of the Worlds, from 1898 to the present. Once again it’s fascinating to see how styles evolve and how different artists and designers approach the task of providing art for the same book. The most [...]