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Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Roundup For August

JR Moores' summer psych-rock recommendations. Plus, your questions answered! (sort of)

Bonnacons Of Doom

Bonnacons of Doom

The bonnacon was a mythical beast from the Middle Ages which defended itself from pursuers by spraying caustic faeces out of its furry anus

Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Roundup For June

JR Moores rifles through the latest psychedelic releases, from those that are freestyle to those in the style of Free

“My Dad Wrote That Better”: Andrew Falkous’ Baker’s Dozen

Ahead of this month's WRONG Festival, the man behind Mclusky, Future Of The Left and Christian Fitness speaks to JR Moores about the 13 records that inspire him (with only the occasional Lammo and ciabatta-themed digression)

Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Reviews For April

This month, JR Moores selects the psych and noise-rock releases deemed most suitable to ward off the MP for North East Somerset

Welcome To Omegaville: Paul Allen of Anthroprophh Interviewed

Ahead of the Rocket 20 party this weekend, via the introduction of housing acts and accusations of sub-Hendrix wanks, Paul Allen anthroprophhesises our impending dystopia
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Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Reviews For February

The album format will never die, says JR Moores, not where psych rock is concerned. With Deep Hum, Bardo Pond, Death Pedals and more

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych-Rock Of 2017

Trying not to get too distracted by what’s on his tellybox, JR Moores rounds up his top ten psych records of the year

Year Of The Projectile Reptile: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Polygondwanaland & More

JR Moores looks back on the Australian psych lords’ annus mirabilis and proposes and few theories on how they proved so productive.

20 Years On: Endless Nameless By The Wildhearts Revisited

As The Wildhearts' Endless, Nameless Turns 20, JR Moores looks back on Britrock's greatest moment of nihilistic self-sabotage

Columnfortably Numb: November Pre-Xmas Gift Guide PsychSpecial

Taking a break from copywriting for the Betterware catalogue, JR Moores recommends suitable gifts for your psych-rocking loved ones.

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For September

JR Moores surveys the latest psych-rock releases, and bravely nails his tie-dyed colours to the mast of not liking these newfangled Nazis we have around nowadays

A Very Selfish Enterprise: The Strange World Of… Shellac

Speaking to JR Moores about 25 years of noise-rocking with Shellac, Steve Albini recalls avoiding publicity, bearing witness to the rise of Britpop and harbouring an irrational hatred of Billy Joel

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For July By JR Moores

JR Moores surveys the latest psychedelic offerings with a little help from his friends and also Mungo Jerry

Mark Wynn

More Singles But They're Not Really Singles I Just Sent Them To The Screen And Said They Were Singles Singles

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For May By JR Moores

JR Moores has a religious experience after shopping at Cheeses Of Nazareth - yet he still had time to deliver reviews of albums by Bardo Pond, Wolf Eyes, Pontiak, Endless Boogie and Part Chimp

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For March By JR Moores

After the proto-dystopian arsestorm that was the last calendar year, JR Moores looks on the bright side of psych

JR Moores On Gnoomes’ TSCHAK!

In the pharmacologically sober follow-up to Ngan!, JR Moores finds that being forbidden from ingesting mind-altering substances hasn't neutered Gnoomes' ability to create joyful and inspiring Russian psych,

“Melvins saved my life”: An interview with Crystal Fairy’s Teri Gender Bender

Before her alt-rock supergroup release their debut LP, Teri Gender Bender speaks to JR Moores about the magic of collaboration

Buttholes And Bandanas: An Interview With Bruxa Maria


Gill Dread's latest project makes an unruly, ferocious racket that some have branded "noise punk". It's inspired by her Butthole Surfers upbringing, the 2011 riots, uncaring hipsters, intolerant atheists and working as a van driver for other bands, she tells JR Moores. Photo thanks to Jose Ramon Caamaño

Columnfortably Numb: November In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

Trying his damnedest not to digress, Dr Moores examines the latest deluge of psych/noise discs by the likes of Goat and Terminal Cheesecake

Columnfortably Numb: September In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

Read, listen and learn about liner notes, lizard discotheques and lysergic evangelicals with JR Moores

Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 20

JR Moores looks back two decades and finds it was No Code that provided Grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero

Columnfortably Numb: July In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

JR Moores finds comfort in an international selection of psych-rock releases before the UK fully isolates itself and then outlaws all music that isn't made by decent, ordinary, real, hardworking people like Olly Murs

Download 2016: Peace, Love and Babymetal

JR Moores is pleased to discover a Download Festival crowd in awe to the thrash/pop mash-up of The Fox God's disciples. All opinions contained herein are the author's own... especially those concerning wrasslin'

Columnfortably Numb: May In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

JR Moores presents the best recent psych-rock records, from Bridgend bedroom bubblers to creaky Italian mystics and asks us to reacquaint ourselves with the mighty Hawkwind...

Träd, Gräs Och Stenar

Träd, Gräs Och Stenar Boxset

Mark Wynn

The Singles

Taking Out The Thrash: Scott Ian Of Anthrax’s Top Albums From 1986

To mark 30 years since 1986, a pivotal moment for metal, Anthrax main man Scott Ian talks JR Moores through his 13 top albums from that year, moving from thrash classics through to landmark hip-hop and pop releases

Columnfortably Numb: February’s Psych Reviews By JR Moores

Before he gets usurped by a hippy droid, JR Moores surveys the latest psych (and noise) rock releases

Things Learned At: Glimps 2015

Spend a weekend at this festival in Ghent, and you'll find little evidence of Belgium's reputed boringness, says JR Moores

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For November

Cyrus cynic JR Moores pounds the patterned pavements in search of fresh psych (and noise rock) releases