Martin De Leon II

Martin De Leon (born May 25, 1981) is a Mexican-American writer, editor and music critic based in Brooklyn, New York. He has a monthly column in the San Francisco electronic music magazine, XLR8R, and is one of the few Latinos covering avant-garde music in the United States. "Warsaw", a minicomic with the illustrator Andres Vera will be published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2007. His collection of short stories, The Queen is Dead, Again, is forthcoming and will be available on iTunes. Two books are also in the works including one of essays on music, literature and philosophy called Invisible Turntables and a novel entitled Aurora. He was a finalist for the 2004 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest. He is co-founder and editor of Blank Screen, an art webzine that covers news, InterViews and articles on visual pop. De Leon has written AbOUT hip-hop, indie-rock and DJ's for, among others, Urb, Vibe, The New York Press, The Austin Chronicle, Stop Smiling and Signal to Noise.

He has a blog, here.