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

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...

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.

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.

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.

Bandcamp Daily: Album of the Day

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.

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

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

Longstanding post-rock quartet move fast and break things, bringing together the quiet bit-loud bit dynamics of their early material with the more melodic material that took their previous record to the top of the album charts

Drawing on his new book, Off The Ground: Paul McCartney In The 1990s, JR Moores explores Macca’s breadth of activities in what he argues was the most important decade of his post-Beatles career

That was the year that was, in psych rock terms, remembers JR Moores, picking out his 10 top releases of 2024

Cover story on Paul McCartney's experimental tendencies for Record Collector #565

David Pajo has remained a relatively cult figure and that seems to have been quite intentional.

Freshly dressed for Comic Con, JR Moores gets stuck into the latest psych and noise rock releases