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Ben Myers Salutes The Return Of The Rock Opera

As Green Day announce a rock opera based on American Idiot, Ben Myers casts his beady eye over the much-maligned genre

The Thirty Best Goth Records Of All Time

Gentleman of the night Mick Mercer is just about to have a comprehensive tome on the goth genre published - _Music To Die For_. So who better to introduce this (entirely subjective) top thirty?

Neil Young

Fork In The Road

Michael Winterbottom’s Genova: Reviewed

The new film from the director of _A Cock and Bull Story_, _A Mighty Heart_ and _24 Hour Party People_ is a meditation on loss and different ways of grieving. James Clarke sees it as Michael Winterbottom's unique interpretation of the ghost story genre.

Duff McKagan: From Guns N’ Roses To Stocks N’ Shares

Once, Duff McKagan was confused by a credit card. Now he's got a degree in finance and writes about the economic crisis in Playboy. Here he explains this strange journey

Fever Ray

Fever Ray

Vessels Get Vocal On Post Rock And Fighting The Good Fight

Julian Marszalek meets Leeds post-rockers Vessels to talk scrapping, studios and multi-instrumentalism. Band portrait by Anna Rudd

The-Dream

Love vs Money

Doves Interview: The Romance Of The Telescope

Quietus Beard Lord John Doran heads to Stockport to meet Doves and talk radio telescopes and career best albums. Lovell Telescope photograph courtesy of S. Parish

Pet Shop Boys

Yes

On Wire And Punk: An Extract From The 33 1/3 Book On Pink Flag

Wire were always at odds with the rest of the late 70s punks. In today's extract from Wilson Neate's 33 1/3 book on Pink Flag, we find out why

Mastodon

Crack The Skye

Sonic Router 001 – A Dubstep Column For April

Oli Marlow casts his eye over the current dubstep platters in the first of a monthly round up, which includes a mix by Untold

The Best Hollywood Hoaxes for April Fool’s Day

In honour of April Fool's Day, The Quietus collects the best Hollywood Hoaxes: from Joaquin's beard to Marilyn's letters; from the Hollywood makeup artists who made Bigfoot to Kubrick's moon landing; from electric shocks in the cinema to faux documentaries with Herzog; it's all here.

1990s

Kicks

Toys To Men: Artist Pete Fowler On His Obsessive Collecting Habit

Pete Fowler explains his lifelong fascination with collecting moulded plastic, and tells us his top three toys

DAF

Das Beste Von DAF

Dragnet #1: New Music From Atlas Sound, Marco Bernardi, Spider And The Flies

Trawling the internet for crooked kicks

Pearl Jam

Ten (Reissue)

Animal Collective’s Geologist On Living In The Tucson Desert

Geologist, aka Brian Weitz, lived out in the desert among the Navajo Native Americans, the cancer clusters and the tarantulas watching sunsets. He explains to Daniel Ross why people shouldn't live there.

Bonnie Prince Billy

Beware

Looking Back At The Cosmic Career Of The Electric Light Orchestra

Nothing says quality like a man with a beard playing a see-through cello. Interplanetary scribe Joe Stannard picks the best of ELO's back catalogue . . . by picking nearly their entire back catalogue.

Royksopp

Junior

Elvis Perkins In Dearland

Elvis Perkins in Dearland

David Sitek: Has The Producer’s Profligacy Outstripped His Talent?

Let's be honest, Dear Science wasn't all it was cracked up to be. But, asks Al Denney, is the reason because David Sitek isn't the producer that he's cracked up to be?

Porn, Ben Stiller And Vegetable Oil: The Unusual World Of Crystal Antlers

Tom Waits Biog Extract: From Wild Years To Island Days

This extract from Barney Hoskyns' new Tom Waits biography looks at how Tom Waits remarkable sonic departure on Island Records was influenced by his marriage to Kathleen Brennan. Photoillustration by Michael A. Russ

Marianne Faithfull

Easy Come Easy Go

Lowside Of The Road: Barney Hoskyns’ Tom Waits Biog Reviewed

House Of Love

Live At The BBC

The Damned United & A Handful Of Non-Shit Sports Films

_The Damned United_ is a lightweight version of David Peace's dark character study of football manager Brian Clough. Taylor Parkes picks apart this flawed football flick. Plus Jeremy Allen compiles a gallery of 10 sports films that weren't shit.

The Horrors’ New Album Primary Colours Reviewed Track-By-Track

In which three Quietus hacks count the ways in which they love thee