Email Author Jason Heller

2010 Stories by Jason Heller

• Steel Panther

  published December 16, 2010

  How long has it been since the Darkness finally went away? The correct answer: not long enough. Don't count your blessings yet, though. Steel... More >>

• Buzzov•en

  published December 16, 2010

  Whole generations of doom-, sludge-, and stoner-rock bands have come and gone since Buzzov•en first trod the earth in 1989. Raw, screamy... More >>

• The Centennial

  published December 16, 2010

  It's no secret why Meese's bid for major-label success failed. Blame the industry all you want, but the bottom line is this: The band was... More >>

• Death Becomes Them

  published December 16, 2010

  For Colorado authors Jesse Bullington and Stephen Graham Jones, no season — much less the holidays — is exempt from horror, weirdness,... More >>

• Ego vs Id

  published October 28, 2010

  There's a misconception — particularly regarding local music — that hard work and good intentions ought to be factored in when... More >>

• Denver County Death March

  published October 21, 2010

  As a genre, metal has made an incredible amount of progress over the past decade. Denver County Death March couldn't give a fuck. Not that the... More >>

• John Statz

  published October 14, 2010

  John Statz may not be a full-time resident of Denver, but the Mile High City shouldn't take it personally. The singer-songwriter's unquenchable... More >>

• Halden Wofford and the Hi-Beams

  published October 7, 2010

  Bret Hertholf — better known around Denver as Halden Wofford — is the author of The Long Gone Lonesome History of Country... More >>

• Stella Luce

  published September 30, 2010

  Eastern Europe isn't as far as from the Front Range as it might seem. Not only does Colorado have the gypsy-inflected DeVotchKa, but Wovenhand... More >>

• Le Divorce

  published September 23, 2010

  "A Pixies album at 3 a.m./'Cause it's the small things that win in the end," sings Le Divorce's singer-guitarist Kitty Vincent on "Analogue,"... More >>

• Broken Spirits

  published September 16, 2010

  Brent Burkhart — better known around Denver (and, indeed, much of the planet) as Reverend Deadeye — has taken a brief respite from... More >>

• Hardcore two-piece Adai playing record-release show Saturday at Marquis Theater

  published September 2, 2010

  Coincidences often come in small, profound packages. The day Devin Mendoza and Justin Trujillo sit down to discuss their post-metal duo, Adai,... More >>

• Bettye LaVette

  published August 26, 2010

  After a string of R&B hits in the '60s and stints touring with James Brown and Otis Redding, Bettye LaVette's career hit a brick wall when... More >>

• Dem Bones, Dem Bones

  published August 26, 2010

  Few things in life are sexier than skull fragments, charred flesh and the ticking of a cold, dispassionate mind. Or so Bones would lead you... More >>

• Fruit Bats

  published August 19, 2010

  The Chicago-bred outfit Fruit Bats has been making records for ten years now, most of them for Sub Pop. And yet Eric D. Johnson, who forms the... More >>

• Honor the Fallen

  published August 19, 2010

  The Broomfield-based post-hardcore quintet Honor the Fallen trekked to Phoenix to record its new, self-titled EP with producer Cory Spotts,... More >>

• Mega Metal

  published August 19, 2010

  Dave Mustaine has long been a punchline — if not a punching bag — for Metallica fans. The group’s founding lead guitarist was... More >>

• Screeching Weasel

  published August 12, 2010

  A lot has been made of the 2009 reunion of pop-punk legends Screeching Weasel — but the fact is, the band has broken up and reformed... More >>

• Rush

  published August 12, 2010

  For one of the most successful bands in history, Rush remains a pretty cryptic bunch. Formed in 1968, the Canadian trio of guitarist Alex... More >>

• INK BIG

  published August 12, 2010

  It’s hard to miss the local arts and music scenes: Both are loud, vibrant, firm fixtures of Denver’s cultural landscape. The local... More >>

• YOU DON’T KNOW DICK

  published August 12, 2010

  Who is Philip K. Dick, and why does he have a festival of his own? That question isn’t just rhetorical. Dave Hyde — aka Lord Running... More >>

• Screeching Weasel

  published August 12, 2010

  A lot has been made of the 2009 reunion of pop-punk legend Screeching Weasel — but the fact is, the band has broken up and reformed numerous... More >>

• Alkaline Trio

  published August 5, 2010

  Like a thermometer crammed up the rectum of punk rock, the Warped Tour has been taking the temperature of teenage rebellion for fifteen years... More >>

• PICTURING THE HERMAPHRODITE

  published August 5, 2010

  Any artist would have a hard time interpreting the teeming, surreal, at times shocking prose of Denver author Daniel Grandbois. But the famed... More >>

• IT’S A BEATLES UNIVERSE

  published August 5, 2010

  Thanks to successes like Glee and the Broadway production of Green Day’s American Idiot, the musical has made a big comeback in... More >>