Email Author Arielle Castillo

Awards

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published February 17, 2009

  "Black Metal Titan Satyricon Plays Club Cinema"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ

  "Taking Back Screamo"

• 2010 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published May 28, 2009

  "Iggy Pop: King of the Dogs"

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2008 Stories by Arielle Castillo

• Art Basel Week: Pink Reason and Times New Viking, Dec. 7

  published Nov 28, 2008

  The last of the Art Basel week shows at the Kill Your Idols space kicks off with a set from Brooklyn-based Pink Reason, currently a trio but really the brainchild of Kevin Failure, the band's frontman... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Sex Vid, Caustic Christ, and Annihilation Time, Dec. 6

  published Nov 27, 2008

  The elusive Seattle/Olympia hardcore-ish band is cult-famous for its refusal to make a web site or even properly record and distribute its music. The Pittsburgh foursome Caustic Christ has toured wi... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Modernage and Tommie Sunshine, Dec. 5

  published Nov 26, 2008

  Tommie SunshineThe Vagabond continues its Friday party tradition of live music on the patio, with scorching elecro on the inside. This edition, in a big ASICS-sponsored fiesta of free giveaways and ... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Andy Rourke at PS14, Dec. 5

  published Nov 26, 2008

  Static Interference, the occasional locals-only extravaganza thrown by the band Astari Nite at PS14, continues during Art Basel with a night dedicated to a band everyone likes: the Smiths. The party's... More >>

• Homegrown, featuring ArtOfficial and the Spam Allstars

  published November 27, 2008

  While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway The Vagabond kicks... More >>

• I Set My Friends on Fire

  published November 27, 2008

  The seemingly out-of-nowhere appearance of the young Kendall duo I Set My Friends on Fire has been recounted in these pages several times in... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Hex Dispensers, Brutal Knights, Reigning Sound, Dec. 5

  published Nov 25, 2008

  Reigning Sound The party continues at the Kill Your Idols space on Friday, December 5, first with Hex Dispensers, an Austin quartet who overdosed on the Ramones, but not so much the Beach Boys (it'... More >>

• Art Basel Week: "The Gossip After Dark," Dec. 4

  published Nov 24, 2008

  This isn't a live performance by the Gossip per se. But the band will most certainly be in the house at O.H.W.O.W. tonight, for a party following the opening of Portland Now, a group show at the Bas F... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Nodzzz, Matt and Kim, Dec. 4

  published Nov 24, 2008

  Matt and KimSome of the best music presented this week comes courtesy of the ongoing Converse-sponsored Kill Your Idols event in the Design District. An ode to current movers and shakers keeping the ... More >>

• Art Basel Week: A.R.E. Weapons, J.D. Samson at O.H.W.O.W., Dec. 2

  published Nov 24, 2008

  Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined b... More >>

• E-40 to Perform at Sobe Live Tonight, First 200 People in Free

  published Nov 20, 2008

  Hyphy as a "movement," per se, may have disappeared as quickly as the driver of a ghost-ridden whip. But in the fallout after the thiz high finally wore off, the Yay Area's most talented bona fide M... More >>

• Art Basel Week: Home Grown party at the Vagabond

  published Nov 20, 2008

  Rachel Goodrich While seemingly the whole highbrow world descends on Miami Beach tonight for the official opening of Art Basel, across the causeway, the Vagabond kicks off the artsy extravaganza with... More >>

• Madonna with DJ Enferno at Dolphin Stadium

  published November 20, 2008

  While some people lament turntablism is a dying art, it has recently received a major boost via the nimble fingers of D.C.-based DJ Enferno.... More >>

• I Set My Friends on Fire to Perform at Drake's Bar on Dec. 1

  published Nov 19, 2008

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• Last Night: The Black Crowes at the Fillmore Miami Beach

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Sayre Berman Chris Robinson, lead vocalist of the Black Crowes, performs with the band at the Fillmore Miami Beach. Click here for the full slideshow. The Black Crowes With the Buffalo Killers Wedn... More >>

• The Leader of Local Band OrganicArma Makes Wynwood His Mecca

  published November 13, 2008

  Surrounded by architectural plans and metaphysical tracts, Dharma, drummer and founder of the local band OrganicArma, can seem like he was... More >>

• Pelican

  published November 13, 2008

  Instrumental rock quartet Pelican has markedly evolved in recent years. Perhaps it's because the band moved from its hometown of Chicago to the... More >>

• Q&A with Secondhand Serenade, Performing Tonight at Revolution

  published Nov 11, 2008

  The obvious similarities between Secondhand Serenade, hailing from the suburbs of California's Bay Area, and homegrown sensation Dashboard Confessional are impossible to ignore. Like Dashboard Confe... More >>

• Pelican to Perform at Culture Room Saturday, November 15

  published Nov 05, 2008

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• Miami Loses

  published November 6, 2008

  Barack Obama cranked on Tuesday, so we're cranked. And he took Florida too. Wow! It's history, baby! But then we looked more... More >>

• Crookers

  published November 6, 2008

  Score another point for Miami in the good fight to keep quality dance music coming here beyond WMC. The latest coup? Why, the only East Coast... More >>

• Miami Loses

  published October 30, 2008

  Barack Obama cranked on Tuesday, so we're cranked. And he took Florida too. Wowsa! It's history, baby! But then we looked more... More >>

• David Squillace to Play the S.A.F.E. Party at Circa 28 on Saturday

  published Nov 04, 2008

  The newish local nonprofit S.A.F.E., dedicated to forward-thinking dance music events with no bullshit and no guest lists (omg!), continues to impress. There was that crazy Richie Hawtin one-off las... More >>

• Italian DJ Duo Crookers Hits Heathrow Lounge this Saturday

  published Nov 03, 2008

  Score another point for Miami in the good fight to keep quality dance music coming down here beyond WMC. The latest coupr Why, the only East Coast appearance on the current tour by white-hot Italian... More >>

• Q&A With Yngwie Malmsteen, Performing Tonight at Culture Room

  published Oct 31, 2008

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