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JR Moores

Columns of the Year

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
Album of the Week

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.

Anniversary

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
Psych Rock

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.

Psych Rock

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
Strange World Of...

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
Psych Rock

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
Reviews

Mark Wynn

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

Psych Rock

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
Psych Rock

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
Album of the Week

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,
A Quietus Interview

“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
A Quietus Interview

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
Psych Rock

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
Psych Rock

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
Anniversary

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
Psych Rock

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
Live Reviews

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'

Psych Rock

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...
Reviews

Träd, Gräs Och Stenar

Träd, Gräs Och Stenar Boxset

Reviews

Mark Wynn

The Singles

Baker's Dozen

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
Psych Rock

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
News

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
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For November

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

LIVE REPORT: World Island

JR Moores braves Hallows' Eve in Leeds for a night of Pretty Lightning, Gnod, Grumbling Fur, Wolf People and Acid Mothers Temple
Baker's Dozen

“Where Was My Mind?” Jenny Hval’s ‘Favourite Albums’

We asked Jenny Hval to pick her 13 favourite LPs, which she didn't, because she thinks that's a "horrible" task. Fair enough, said JR Moores, so here, instead, are 13 underappreciated records she's hoping you'll go out and enjoy
Psych Rock

Columnfortably Numb: A New Psych Column By J.R. Moores

Homzom auteur J.R.Moores probes the Hubble Deep Field in search of psych (and noise rock) releases that you need to hear
News

Things Learned At: Edinburgh Fringe

JR Moores reports on things learned "while observing people who observe things for a living"
A Quietus Interview

Always Organic: Cory Rayborn On 15 Years Of Three Lobed Recordings

By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores
Reviews

Evil Acidhead

In The Name Of All That Is Unholy

Reviews

Henry Blacker

Summer Tombs

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