Latest articles by Julian Marszalek
What happened when The Struts’ Luke Spiller worked with Mike Oldfield
Luke Spiller and Mike Oldfield collaborated on 2014 album Man On The Rocks, giving the Struts singer a new appreciation for the Tubular Bells mastermind
What do Syd Barrett and Robert Fripp have to do with Britpop? See Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish
Okay, it’s not all-out prog – but the band’s second record contains the spirit of the genre, with its English eccentricities, non-linear approach to playing and rule-breaking flair
Wendy James fell in love with an Iron Butterfly song she’d never be drunk enough to write
Won over by the psych-prog outfit, ex Transvision Vamp singer used a clip from In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida in one of her own songs
Even though Kate Bush refused to produce Gavin Friday’s Virgin Prunes, he still loves her
Composer, actor and painter explains why her work is high art in the style of influential writer James Joyce
Hawkwind’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall is much more than just another live album
Triple-disc set captures the space rock veterans’ sonic destruction at celebratory event, which shows how well their latest music sits with their early work – and inspires thoughts of music yet to come
Gary Marx co-founded the Sister Of Mercy: Now he's a Slade-worshipping, Bowie-loving glam rocker
Co-founder of Sisters Of Mercy and Ghost Dance, influential goth guitarist Gary Marx has returned to his glam roots
Ruts DC drummer David Ruffy explains why Edgar Broughton Band are his prog heroes
He hails their punk ethic, their experiments with electronica, and their way of writing songs about real people
The Clash used the musical language of prog to make the statement that is Combat Rock
Even as they began spiralling out of control, the cut-down double album delivered 46 minutes of creativity, complexity and power
The long wait for a new Lone Justice album may not have been worth it
An album of covers makes for underwhelming return for LA country rockers Lone Justice
When David Blackwell of The Lovely Eggs played with half of Can
Psych-punk drummer says his duo took inspiration from the krautrock pioneers’ ability to twist pop ditties into heavy drone experiments
Fantastic Negrito's raw and confessional Son Of A Broken Man is his best work yet
Heavy riffing collides with funk and soul for an extraordinary confessional
Why Public Service Broadcasting made an album about air pioneer Amelia Earhart
She went missing in 1937 during an attempt to fly round the world – now J Willgoose, Esq has used the material she left behind to bring her story back to life
”Raw and confessional”: Pure Reason Revolution’s Coming Up To Consciousness
Sixth album examines our final destination and demonstrates there’s no rule book for grieving
How U.K. became Witherfall guitarist Jake Dreyer’s prog heroes
Astonished by the world of Allan Holdsworth and Bill Bruford in particular, he’s happy to explain how you’ll hear the supergroup in his own band’s material
P.O.D.’s Marcos Curiel used Radiohead to survive working in a goth retail store
Guitarist explains his love for Thom Yorke’s band and (almost) everything they’ve ever done
Jane Weaver’s recent experiences of death lent a “heavy mellow” to her new album
Being prepared and embracing deadlines have never been her strong suits – but when she developed a new approach for Love In Constant Spectacle, she was delighted with the results
“Progressive to their core”: Revisiting Cocteau Twins’ Treasure
1984 release led the way for countless bands who’d be labelled shoegaze and dream-pop – but trio’s motivation was to find their own direction
“I like to be technical but it’s important to have feel”: Why Kris Barras loves Planet X
Hard rock band leader explains how Tony MacAlpine influenced him when he wanted to develop his playing and Dream Theater wasn’t doing it for him
“You don’t have to take drugs forever”: Dave Brock on Hawkwind’s late-period purple patch
Space rock veteran is happier then ever – and he even found an upside in nearly missing a recent tour over hospital stay
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats' lineage stretches out on South Of Here
Old forms given new life for the modern age on Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats' fourth album
"Hellfire is something that has way more impact with a much wider scope." Are black midi really the 'natural heirs' to King Crimson?
Young London modern prog rock trio black midi set out their stall with third album Hellfire
Kavus Torabi’s The Banishing: A plaintiff joy – painful, but never sorry for itself
Psychedelic polymath draws a line under a recent difficult past with a personal form of ritual exorcism
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God! That sounds much better. It sounds how it should!’” Jane Weaver accidentally pushed herself out of her comfort zone for Love In Constant Spectacle
He new album, produced by PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, included sessions in a studio where Weaver felt the spirit of Hawkwind upon her
“He did one track… then went off with some famous singer to do another album”: Hawkwind’s collaboration with William Orbit didn’t happen on this album - but they hope it will on the next
Stories From Time And Space marks the band’s first offworld work in years, after being mentioned in a book got them thinking of the cosmos again
