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José Carlos Santos’ business card says “music curation, consulting and journalism”, which is to say he is a sort of jack of all trades of the underground, and has been so for over 25 years. He likes being at the eye of the artistic storm where performer, press, listener, culture, language and history all fly around, bumping into each other. As a self-professed “word nerd”, a follower of Heschel’s “words create worlds” maxim, his main focus has always been writing, which he has done copiously in both his native languages, English and Portuguese – for instance, as Senior Writer for Terrorizer magazine for eleven years and chief of staff for LOUD! for what felt like a hundred years. Currently he runs his own The Devil’s Mouth website, is part of the writing staff for Decibel, and serves as creative consultant and community writer on the Roadburn Festival team. He has pursued other activities such as radio hosting, publishing, DJ, photography, PR, management and more. Behind all of José’s professional guises, lies essentially a profound love of music and an unshakable will to shine a light on the less exposed artists and help them reach their deserved audience.