Martin De Leon II

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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. He has produced "Warsaw", a minicomic, with the illustrator Andres Vera, and a collection of short stories, The Queen is Dead, Again, is forthcoming. Two other books are also in the works, including a collection of essays on music, literature, and philosophy, called Invisible Turntables, and a novel entitled Aurora. Yellow Asteroids, an animated show he created, is being developed for Adult Swim. 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 DJs for, among others, Urb, VIBE, The New York Press, The Austin Chronicle, Stop Smiling, and Signal to Noise.

He has a blog, here.