JR Moores

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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

There used to be something interesting about Primal Scream...

Before getting stuck into the latest avant rock releases, JR Moores pins his colours to the mast of Macca

As Ween's 1994 classic gets an expanded rerelease, JR Moores finds it hard to imagine the oddball's oddballs would've thrived at any other time.

In his first psych rock roundup to take place under a Labour government, JR Moores welcomes a bright new era

JR Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse