Julian Marszalek
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Hopelessly addicted to music, Julian has, over the course of the last decade or so, contributed news, features, interviews and reviews to the likes of Xfm, Yahoo! Music, The Quietus, the BBC, The Stool Pigeon and many others. When not writing about music, Julian plays guitar with The November Five.
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Despite a line up that boasted media darlings Dum Dum Girls, Wavves, F----- Up and These New Puritans, the glare of attention fell on Bobby Gillespie's much vaunted new garage supergroup, the Silver Machine, at this year's 1234 Festival in Shoreditch, East London on Saturday, July 24.
The Primal Scream singer was joined by bandmates ...
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Grace Jones brought the Lovebox Weekender festival in London's Victoria Park to a thundering climax on Sunday, July 19, with a stunning performance that expunged from the memory the disappointing Roxy Music headline slot from the night before.
As befitting a diva of her status, Jones appeared on the main stage 25 minutes late to a tumultuous ...
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London's Victoria Park has been both a blessing and a curse when it comes to live music. A beautiful location set amongst trees and open spaces, the prohibitively low volume levels imposed on the main stage have proved to be the undoing of many a band over the years. Roxy Music's headline slot at Lovebox on Saturday -- the band's first London gig ...
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The worlds of music and literature are set to meet head on as musicians as diverse as British Sea Power, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy and Kele are set to contribute pieces to an online literary magazine.
A collection of short stories and poems from the musicians will appear in Five Dials which is being published to coincide with the upcoming ...
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As they gear themselves up to headline this weekend's Latitude festival in Suffolk, England, New York afro-rockers Vampire Weekend have found themselves at the centre of a $2 million (£1.3 million) lawsuit after being sued by Kristen Kennis, the model who graces the cover of the band's latest album, 'Contra.'
According to TMZ, Kennis -- ...
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Vampire Weekend -- New York's biggest fans of Paul Simon's 'Gracelands' album -- have spoken of their excitement of headlining their first-ever festival. Having graced a variety of some of the most prestigious festivals in the world, the quartet are set to close this weekend's Latitude festival in Suffolk on Sunday, July 18.
With no little ...
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The Go-Betweens' Robert Forster has spoken of how a move into journalism has helped him come to terms with the death of his late songwriting partner, Grant McLennan. McLennan passed away at the age of 48 in 2006, after suffering a heart attack.
The singer-songwriter was speaking after his first collection of rock reviews and features for ...
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