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Feedbacker: Rock Music for March by JR Moores

JR Moores emerges from the scented bath to widen his lens in the inaugural edition of our new rock column 
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for January by JR Moores

After gazing into his crystal ball, JR Moores rounds up the latest psych rock rackets 
Reviews

Megadeth

Megadeth

Thrash legends' swan song finds Dave Mustaine and co. at their most Spinal Tap – but perhaps that's no bad thing?
Columns of the Year

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock of 2025

JR Moores finds some comfort in his favourite psych and avant-rock albums of the year 
Reviews

Various Artists

Metal Machine Music: Power to Consume, Vol. 1

Several salutes to Lou Reed’s most returned release, featuring Thurston Moore, Pharmakon, Drew MacDowall and others
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October By JR Moores

Before he gets to grip with the latest psych and noise rock releases, JR Moores has a brilliantly bleak brainwave
Reviews

Richard Ashcroft

Lovin’ You

The Verve singer returns, but he's treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores
Reviews

Ganser

Animal Hospital

Produced by Angus from Liars, the latest from the slimmed down Chicago trio has its share of curveballs, still plenty rockin’
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for August by JR Moores

JR Moores addresses the painful rise of AI psych rock before getting his lugholes around some manmade releases
Reviews

Wolf Alice

The Clearing

The award scoopers’ fourth album fails to live up to its bombastic lead single, says JR Moores
Reviews

Babymetal

Metal Forth

They may not have saved the world, but the new Babymetal record is an absolute hoot, finds JR Moores
Reviews

Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra

Places We Have Never Been

An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series of exotic locale. The kids are all right, says JR Moores
Reviews

Stephen O’Malley

But Remember What You Have Had

The SUNN O))) member’s minimalism leaves JR Moores wanting more
Rock

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

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
Rock

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

A Quietus Interview

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. Plus, the band share the new video for brand new track 'Chekov's Guns'
Reviews

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
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for February Reviewed by JR Moores

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
Strange World Of...

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
Reviews

Mogwai

The Bad Fire

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
Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Paul McCartney in the 1990s

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

Columns of the Year

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock of 2024

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

Papa M

Ballads Of Harry Houdini

Having worked with Slint, Tortoise, and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Dave Pajo is still searching for new paths through the guitar
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for November Reviewed by JR Moores

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

Primal Scream

Come Ahead

With Bobby Gillespie virtually the sole surviving member, Primal Scream offer diminished returns, writes lapsed fan JR Moores
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for September Reviewed by JR Moores

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

Reissue of the Week: Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese

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 
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for July Reviewed by JR Moores

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

tQ Subscriber Release: Hitiloma & Nat Sharp

J.R. 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
Film

Still Turning Heads: The Exorcism reviewed

JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films 
Rock

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For May Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores surveys the latest psych and noise-rock releases, pines for the CD-R format and wonders what comes after perfection
Mahti
Mahti
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