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  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    Did you see how horribly that album got savaged by most reviewers? We may have been two of twelve people who liked it. I just don't get it. It's exactly the album Amebix should be making in the ...

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 5:10 PM

  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    I saw them a couple times in the late '90s/early '00s, but nothing since then. And of course I missed Scott Kelly play a solo show here in Denver last weekend. (I wished it had been Von Till, though ...

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 5:08 PM

  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    Theater Of Hate! I should've made that connection. Yes, perfect. I keep thinking Death In June, Sol Invictus, and New Model Army.

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 5:07 PM

  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    My pleasure. If you haven't heard Arctic Flowers demo (some of the tracks were released on a split and a 7"), find it. It's even better.

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 5:06 PM

  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    I get to write mini-reviews in Loud every month, and I considered covering Zombi earlier this year. But it only barely fits under the loosely-defined metal/punk/noise umbrella of that column -- mostly because of the group's association with ...

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 9:07 AM

  • The best music of 2011: The Ballots  

    I mentioned Cult Of Youth in Loud earlier this year (although they don't really belong in the column), but Hyden is letting me write a belated review in the regular section before year's end. But don't wait ...

    Dec. 6, 2011 - 8:59 AM

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Jason Heller is a writer and editor whose words have appeared in dozens of publications, including Clarkesworld Magazine (where he's the nonfiction editor); Weird Tales; Alternative Press; Tor.com; Fantasy Magazine; Skyscraper; most papers in the Village Voice chain; and this here A.V. Club (where he was the Denver City Editor from 2006-'09). He's also an author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror with many short stories published and some novels on the way from Quirk Books/Random House: the speculative satire Taft 2012 and a soon-to-be-announced series of horror novels for middle-grade readers. He blogs nowhere nearly often enough at jasonmheller.blogspot.com.