The week in music: 19 September

Cockpit, Leeds: Glasvegas may have lost the battle for the UK charts to Metallica, but they win the war for looking cool in shades Photograph: Paul Crowther/Retna Pictures

Los Angeles: Singer Janet Jackson modelling her 'militant in beige' look Photograph: Mark J. Terrill/AP

Hamburg, Germany: Coldplay's Chris Martin draws inspiration from the catwalks of London fashion week. Work it, girl! Photograph: Kay Nietfeld/EPA

United Palace Theatre, New York: Jonsi Birgisson of Sigur Ros plays his guitar with a cello bow. Next week, he attempts the piano using a plectrum Photograph: Mark Metcalfe/Getty

Hollywood Walk of Fame, California: The Village People receive the 2,369th star, which seems unusual timing for a band who haven't released a record since 1985's Sex Over the Phone Photograph: Paul Buck/EPA

Berlin, Germany: Metallica's James Hetfield celebrates Death Magnetic going to No 1 in the UK, US, New Zealand, Holland and Canada. Yes, and Germany too Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke /Reuters

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson reaches new levels of cool by piloting one of the planes that rescued stranded passengers from Egypt, after the XL Leisure group went into administration this week Photograph: Newspix/Rex Features

Soul legend Stevie Wonder performs at Ahoy Rotterdam as part of his European tour Photograph: Robert Vos/AFP/Getty

Joss Stone performs at Andrew Lloyd Webber's Birthday in the Park concert in Hyde Park, London, which sounds like one hell of a party (we'd pay money to avoid) Photograph: Carsten Windhorst/Retna Pictures

Writer and composer Sarah Silverman holds the Emmy award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the song I'm F***ing Matt Damon at the 2008 Primetime Creative Arts Awards in Los Angeles. Nothing for Jimmy Kimmel's retort "I'm F***ing Ben Affleck", but then we guess the lyrics were not outstandingly original by that point Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

Beth Orton performs at the Forever Heavenly festival in London, celebrating 18 years of Heavenly Recordings. Manic Street Preachers, Doves and Edwyn Collins also played Photograph: Mark Pinson/Retna

The Ultimate Idols, New York: Davy Jones of the Monkees dazzles the audience by revealing his hair-free chest live onstage, a move that immediately prompted the question - why? Photograph: Bobby Bank/WireImage.com/Getty

An aerial view of Chambord castle with a pretty astounding piece of artwork by French artists Nils Guadajin and Claire Trottignon representing the Rolling Stones logo. This grass installation, as we're calling it, is part of Heritage Days on September 20 and September 21 Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty

An unidentifiable member of the Metros plays a concert during ArtsFest in Birmingham. Some people will do anything to get noticed, while others will take to wearing a green cardboard box that just screams "ignore me!" Photograph: Jules Annan/Retna