I write about music and culture. Resident psych-rock columnist at The Quietus and Record Collector. Author of Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present and Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s.
Vinylogue: Jenn D’Eugenio
Jenn D’Eugenio is a devoted follower of the church of Black Sabbath. Dive into her obsession ahead of the band’s final show.
Review: Places We Have Never Been by Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra
The kids are all right, says JR Moores.
Album of The Day: The Worm, “Pantilde”
Like several species of birds and those wild, wild horses, the humble worm has inspired plenty of fascinating music over the years...
Review - Stephen O’Malley: But Remember What You Have Had
The SUNN O))) member’s minimalism leaves JR Moores wanting more.
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for June by JR Moores
JR Moores dives deep into his pond of puns for our latest roundup of psych rock, noise rock and post rock records.
Reissue of the Week: The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World
Rock remix projects are typically inconsistent, says JR Moores. The Cure’s latest foray into the format is a mixed bag, with the most successful moments those which somewhat stifle Robert Smith’s sadness.
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for April Reviewed by JR Moores
JR Moores peruses the latest new psych rock releases, including a surprising new cut of filthily heavy noise rock from none other than Miley Cyrus
Album of the day: Messa, “The Spin”
Although Italy’s Messa look the part in their many monochrome photoshoots, it’s telling that none of the quartet had played in a doom band before this one formed in 2014...
How Walter Verdin went from Eurovision Flop to Belgian Avant-Pop Icon
Representing Belgium in the 1983 Eurovision Song Contest, Walter Verdin's avant-pop group Pas De Deux placed next to last, yet their enduring legacy reveals them as the real champions.
Brave in Particular Contexts: Mclusky Interviewed
tQ’s official Mclusky correspondent, JR Moores, catches up with Andrew Falkous for a freewheeling chat covering pesto, Genghis Khan, tinnitus and the revived rock trio's first album in over two decades.
Driving Him Nuts: Squirrely Years Revisited Is Ministry’s Best Album In Decades
Al Jourgensen's latest is a startling proposition – re-recordings of material that he outright despises, with a raging squirrel phallus displayed on the cover. It's also, says JR Moores, the best material the band's put out for years.
Richard Dawson: Master of Song
A wedding guest is so crippled with depression they can barely stomach the canapés. A young boy is terrorized by the bullies at his school. A gardener eases their sorrows by tending the nasturtiums. These are just a few of the characters going through some seriously heavy stuff on Richard Dawson’s new album, End Of The Middle.
Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for February
Barely recovered from The Jesus Lizard’s recent UK tour, JR Moores flings himself, in a zebra print G-string, at the latest psych and noise rock releases
The Strange World Of… Fugazi
Ahead of the release of a documentary film, JR Moores laments Fugazi’s absence yet remains wary of a comeback, offering some “stupid fucking words” on the band that never ceased getting better until they stopped altogether