Julian Marszalek
Julian Marszalek is the former Reviews Editor of The Blues Magazine. He has written about music for Music365, Yahoo! Music, The Quietus, The Guardian, NME and Shindig! among many others. As the Deputy Online News Editor at Xfm he revealed exclusively that Nick Cave’s second novel was on the way. During his two-decade career, he’s interviewed the likes of Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osbourne, and has been ranted at by John Lydon. He’s also in the select group of music journalists to have actually got on with Lou Reed. Marszalek taught music journalism at Middlesex University and co-ran the genre-fluid Stow Festival in Walthamstow for six years.
Latest articles by Julian Marszalek

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Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?

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Ultravox – Quartet (Deluxe Edition): Steven Wilson burnishes art-poppers’ watershed 1982 album

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Brothers in a band often spells trouble, but Baroque/power-poppers The Lemon Twigs have found the secret of happily co-existence

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King Crimson and Talking Heads veteran recalls having to record for Bowie without hearing the songs first

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With 24 albums in just over a decade – and five last year alone – are King Gizzard challenging their fans to process too much music? "I think we are primarily challenging ourselves,” says Stu MacKenzie

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Oxymore: team-up project between Jean-Michel Jarre and the late Pierre Henry offers mixed results

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Three Amigos’ farewell sumptuously re-packaged with added demos, booklet and essential previously unreleased live set

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Reinvigorated rock’n’rollers The Godfathers make an offer you can’t refuse on Alpha Beta Gamma Delta

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Album of high velocity punk from Californian name-changers Osees obliterates all before it

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Not yet ratedTimely missive from the nine circles courtesy of London art-rock headspinners.

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More than 25 years on, 1st Congregational Church Of Eternal Love And Free Hugs finds Kula Shaker moving from ’67 to ’68.

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The Swedish vocalist discusses reworking some of Yeats' famous poetry for his latest solo album Spiritus Mundi

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Not yet ratedArt-rockers set their sights high on second post-comeback album

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Not yet ratedAustralian space cadets are back with their best album yet.

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Aussie cosmonauts King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard hit melodious peak with freakouts and chill-outs on Omnium Gatherum

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See Through Blue is a convincing album of hook-laden rebel rock from Welsh firebrands Scarlet Rebels

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The Be-Bop Deluxe mainman and solo artist in his own right reflects on the highs and lows of his career

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Rockabilly rebel Brian Setzer still walks the Stray Cat strut on Gotta Have The Rumble

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Heavy-blues duo The Cold Stares tread a new path on fourth album Heavy Shoes

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Haphazard album 'Roger The Engineer' shows why The Yardbirds were such a terrific singles band

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Possessed of the past, treasured pioneer Suzi Quatro rocks into the present on The Devil In Me

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Worlds collide on Psychedelic Porn Crumpets' fourth album Shyga! The Sunlight Mound, in a cornucopia of multi-coloured, high-speed sound

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Mammoth box set charting the creation of prog rock’s alpha moment: King Crimson's In The Court Of The Crimson King
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