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Jose “Luis” Vasquez, a California musician who found fame with the post-punk project the Soft Moon, and John “Juan” Mendez, a popular Los Angeles DJ who performed as Silent Servant, were among three people found dead last week at a downtown Los Angeles loft in a suspected fentanyl overdose, authorities said Sunday. Vasquez, 44, performed globally and at last year’s Cruel World alternative music festival in Pasadena. His death was lamented in a post on Soft Moon’s Facebook page, which called it a “huge loss” and said “our…

Juan Mendez, the techno musician and member of the Sandwell District collective known for productions under the name Silent Servant, has died.His UK press representative confirmed his death. He was in his mid 40s but his exact age and the cause of death have not been given.Celebrated for his dramatic, sometimes malevolent but darkly beautiful production style which drew from industrial music, Mendez was born to Cuban and Mexican parents and raised in Los Angeles. He began DJing in his mid-teens. “I was never a punk. Ever.…

Though the renowned Dominican star Juan Luis Guerra has been making music since the Eighties, he’s constantly finding new inspiration. Sometimes, the ideas come to him when he’s looking back at his four-decade career: In fact, his new EP Radio Güira was partially influenced by a radio show he had years ago, as well as his longtime love of Dominican güiras, percussion instrument that’s common in folk and popular music from the Dominican Republic. Radio Güira, which came out earlier this month, is full of little…

Colombian superstar Maluma continues to tease fans ahead of the release of his upcoming album ‘Don Juan’, by unveiling cheeky new single ‘Coco Loco’.‘Coco Loco’ – ‘Crazy Coconut’ in English – is the latest track to be released from the new album and it follows ‘La Fórmula’ with Marc Anthony, ‘La Reina’ and ‘Diablo, Que Chimba’ alongside Anuel AA. Musically the song is very much the kind of track you’d expect from Maluma, mixing tropical beats with reggaeton elements while the star sings and raps.Lyrically, the song is…

The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off today, one of New York’s signature events, full of screenings and rooftop parties and the rest of that film festival life. Comics have had a few connections with the fest over the years, but the most prominent comics-related participant has been publisher AWA Studios. They’ve been involved in various ways in recent years and this time out they’ve come up with something more innovative than a mere panel: prize art!   For 2023, AWA has partnered with the festival and artist Juan Doe to…

You can almost always find Twitch streamer Juan Guarnizo in a crowd by listening for his very loud and unique laugh, beloved by his fans. If you’re at the Cupra Arena stadium in Barcelona, though, you’ll see Guarnizo first. He’ll be the one decked out in red to represent Aniquiladores FC, one of the 12 teams in the Kings League, and probably be wearing a baseball cap and shades. Guarnizo has 10.5 million followers on Twitch and serves as the president of Aniquiladores, which means “Annihilators” in English. He’s the…

What or who inspired you to write Antonia Scott’s character in Red Queen? Author Juan Gomez-Jurado (Alta Resolucion) The inspiration for Antonia and Jon inevitably stems from Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Antonia is that idealistic being, she does not hesitate to face the windmills, because she believes in a better world. Jon, on the other hand, is that pragmatist who has a dreamer hidden inside of him. They are very layered characters and I intentionally kept their sketches subtle because usually these things…

Many card games involve chance. Regardless of how good a player or a deck is, having or not having the favor of the odds could either pave the way to an easy win or an unforgettable defeat. This rule applies to the Pokémon Trading Card Game (PTCG). Besides being cards with creatures some of us have come to love, PTCG is a complex and competitive game rich with mechanisms, options, and opportunities, where pure skill won’t get you that far.One of these cards is called Battle VIP Pass (BVP), and I’m not sure if I love or…

What is a novel, anyway? In its most common form, a book-length made-up story, though with the recent rise of autofiction, readers have become used to the line between life and art being blurred. Look back a little further and you’ll find many writers playing with the idea of the “nonfiction novel”, most famously Truman Capote with In Cold Blood: in the right hands, novels are clearly flexible enough to deal in facts.That’s the territory we find ourselves in here. Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s eighth novel explores the life…

| Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming, The Finder, Werewolf & Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen,  Orc Island, and now Burning Man, Bad Idea's first ongoing series, starting on the 28th of December, a supernatural horror choose-your-own-adventure by Peter Milligan, Juan Jose Ryp and Andrew Dalhouse, with an unannounced back-up strip. And we get our first look right here. Informed Pre-orders can…