Email Author Jason Heller

2003 Stories by Jason Heller

• Hit Pick

  published December 25, 2003

  Zombies are shambling, reanimated corpses that drip with decay and a cold, bloodless contempt for all human life. Zombie Zombie is like... More >>

• Tin Men

  published December 18, 2003

  There's a very little-known installment of the Shaft movie series where Richard Roundtree's funky detective gets sent to bust some pimps... More >>

• Time of the Season

  published December 11, 2003

  It's easy to see why autumn is a lot of people's favorite season. For one thing, it isn't so goddamn hot. Summer simmers down to a chilly lull,... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published December 11, 2003

  Every time some subterranean sound decides to paint itself up and whore itself out to the hoi polloi, there's a legion of bands left behind to... More >>

• Shout at the Devil

  published December 4, 2003

  Sucking Satan's dick can really change a person. Just ask Rodney Mitchell, a guy who's been taking his lumps for years playing music in what... More >>

• Lab Dance

  published November 27, 2003

  It looks more like Eastern Europe than East 13th Avenue, more Carpathian Mountains than Capitol Hill. The building is straight out of Gothic... More >>

• Perfect Rx

  published November 20, 2003

  Epiphanies are like assholes: Everyone has one, most stink and not even surgery can purge them. Consider as a case in point the 33-year-old,... More >>

• Jolie Holland

  published November 20, 2003

  There's death in the undergrowth, black and loamy. It crouches beneath broad green leaves like puddles of shadow, sucking at wet roots and bare... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published November 20, 2003

  Paisley shirts. Nehru jackets. Chelsea boots. Gregg Kostelich probably got his ass kicked quite a bit during the 1980s. In the middle of that... More >>

• Wired Science

  published November 6, 2003

  I never saw any relation between my upbringing and the art that I do," says j.frede, the former Denver aesthetic agitator who now resides in Los... More >>

• Knock 'Em Dead

  published October 30, 2003

  Mark out the points! Build the pyre! Assemble different drummers! Light up the fire! Put on your masks and animal skins!" Dictums for an... More >>

• Fall Guys

  published October 23, 2003

  They climb on the stage like acrobats tiptoeing onto high wires. Their moves are poised, exact; their balance and dexterity are honed to surgical... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published October 23, 2003

  Cello plus drums and screams: How can you go wrong? Especially if you're the Portland duo known as Discharge Information System, who... More >>

• Black Humor

  published October 16, 2003

  There's a fine line between myth-making and fucking around. Tons of rock bands throughout history have been as good, if not better, at playing the... More >>

• Tales From the Script

  published October 9, 2003

  It's a muggy August night in Omaha, and outside the weathered Sokol Auditorium, kids line the sidewalk like a string of firecrackers waiting to go... More >>

• Love Me Destroyer

  published October 9, 2003

  Geez, aren't you supposed to lighten up as you get older? Love Me Destroyer is the new incarnation of Pinhead Circus, the much-loved outfit... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published October 9, 2003

  Who'd have thought that a band like the Clash would ever make it to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? True, Joe Strummer and company did flirt with... More >>

• Serious Funnies

  published October 2, 2003

  So there's this guy who lives a life of hushed, isolated desperation. He works crappy jobs and has bad luck with girls. Because he's from the... More >>

• Grave Expectations

  published October 2, 2003

  Expectations. Sometimes they can ruin everything. Most people spend half their time trying to cram everyone around them into molds and the other... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published October 2, 2003

  Prometheus, says the myth, stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this heinous transgression, he was chained to a rock and forced to... More >>

• Nerves You Right

  published September 25, 2003

  It's like the flutter of a bug caught in a cobweb, or the jittery split second before a first kiss, or maybe even one of those tics throbbing deep... More >>

• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

  published September 25, 2003

  Everyone's cashing in on this whole "black" thing. Black Keys. Black Eyes. Black Dice. Black Flag. Black Sabbath. Ritchie Blackmore. None More... More >>

• Shriek and Spell

  published September 18, 2003

  When it comes to centers of power, none in history can approach the hubristic might of Washington, D.C., the seat of the American Empire. And yet,... More >>

• Critic's Choice

  published September 18, 2003

  In today's climate of indie-rock sarcasm, a band called Destroyer plays sweet, sophisticated pop, while groups with names like Sparkles play music... More >>

• Digging Roots

  published September 11, 2003

  "I can't remember the last time I listened to a country record." For most people, that would be a pretty innocuous statement. But for someone... More >>