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

• For Halloween, Five Creepy Music Videos (Some For Unintentional Reasons)

  published Oct 29, 2008

  Jan Terri, "Get Down Goblin" In the Eighties and Nineties, Jan Terri was a limousine driver who became a cult sensation in her hometown of Chicago for her self-produced albums and music videos. As ... More >>

• Add to the Halloween List: Tommy Lee & DJ Aero at Karu & Y

  published Oct 28, 2008

  Even in 2008, Tommy Lee embraces the road warrior lifestyle with an energy that would make rockers half his age collapse, panting. About a year ago, he hit the road with DJ Aero to spread the word o... More >>

• CMJ Music Marathon Wrap-Up, Part Two

  published Oct 27, 2008

  Here are some more bands whose live shows were among the highlights of this year's CMJ Music Marathon. The Bronx: This confusingly named L.A. band is hardly new, having played a major stage on the le... More >>

• CMJ Music Marathon Wrap-Up, Part One

  published Oct 27, 2008

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• Remember Alex Del Bueno

  published October 23, 2008

  To young, casual consumers of Miami's downtown nightlife, Alex Del Bueno was the lord of The Vagabond door, the no-bullshit sentry who guarded... More >>

• Benefits for Al Del Bueno Begin Tonight at Churchill's

  published Oct 17, 2008

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• Astari Nite's Static Interference Series Continues on Friday with Rimsky, Life of Seals, and Others

  published Oct 16, 2008

  I wrote about shimmering local quartet Astari Nite -- and its charismatic frontman, Mychael Ghost -- recently for the Miami New Times, when the band was set to play its own occasional Static Interfe... More >>

• New Mix from Steve Lawler, Performing at Mansion on Nov. 1

  published Oct 15, 2008

  While there are a number of high-profile club DJ sets going on this year on Halloween, save some energy for the following day, when the Viva Tour hits Mansion. Featuring a WMC-caliber lineup of Stev... More >>

• Opeth

  published October 16, 2008

  Monday's bill at Revolution brings a somewhat unexpected mix of the scene's big-deal heavy music acts. But what all bands share is an obsession... More >>

• R.I.P. Gidget Gein, South Florida Native and Former Member of Marilyn Manson

  published Oct 14, 2008

  Our sister paper, the LA Weekly, reported this morning on some sad news for longtime local scene-watchers. The artist and musician Brad Stewart, a.k.a. Gidget Gein, was found dead yesterday in his h... More >>

• Last Night: Danzig's Blackest of the Black Tour... and Danzig Aftershow

  published Oct 10, 2008

  Blackest of the Black Tour With Winds of Plague, Moonspell, Dimmu Borgir, and Danzig Thursday, October 9, 2008 The Fillmore Miami Beach Better Than: Those faux Misfits, headed by Jerry Only, who seem... More >>

• Rick Ross Admits to Corrections Officer Past in Don Diva Magazine

  published Oct 08, 2008

  For those who can't get enough of this pseudo-scandal, it seems that Rick Ross has finally copped (lol) to his past as a corrections officer. After photos leaked recently of his academy graduation, ... More >>

• Tadahisa Yoshida, Kill Miss Pretty, DJ Heavygrinder Among Musical Guests at Anime Supercon

  published Oct 08, 2008

  No event that ends with "--con" is complete without highly specialized musical guests. (Just check out, for example, this long list of wizard-centric bands that just rocked the huge Harry Potter con... More >>

• O.H.W.O.W., It's Our House West of Wynwood!

  published October 9, 2008

  O.H.W.O.W., or Our House West of Wynwood, is both a succinct and unspecific name that sums up the vibe of a new bi-city creative venture on NW... More >>

• Blackest of the Black Tour

  published October 9, 2008

  Thank the dark lord, or whoever is responsible, for getting the infamous Glenn Danzig off his ass and on a long-awaited national tour. This... More >>

• Poison the Well To Write New Album, Release Seven-Inch Series

  published Oct 07, 2008

  You know a band from your city is awesome when one of my favorite people in music, Greg Puciato of the Dillinger Escape Plan, has to ask about them or shout them out every time he's in town. So it g... More >>

• Last Night: Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow, and GWAR at Revolution

  published Oct 03, 2008

  Toxic Holocaust, Kingdom of Sorrow, and GWAR Thursday, October 2, 2008 Revolution, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: A great many "serious" shows I've sat through recently ... and I will hazard a guess t... More >>

• O.A.R. Show Moved to Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

  published Oct 02, 2008

  Here's some late-breaking news for jam band lovers.... The O.A.R. show scheduled for tomorrow, Friday October 3, has been moved south from the Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Boca, to the Pompano Beach Am... More >>

• Sweat-Aid Benefit Show, Debate Party Tomorrow Night at the Vagabond

  published Oct 01, 2008

  The local scene's been showing a lot of love for Sweat Records after the break-in there a few weeks ago. The little indie store that could is slowly bouncing back, but is still smarting a little. In c... More >>

• DJ Laz Extends Contract with Power 96

  published Sep 30, 2008

  I can remember DJ Laz being on the air at Power 96, in some form or another, since I was in elementary school in the early/mid-Nineties. Much like his home station itself, I really didn't expect him... More >>

• Last Night: The Sword and Clutch at Culture Room

  published Sep 29, 2008

  The Sword and Clutch With Never Got Caught and Graveyard Friday, September 26 The Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale Better Than: Not discovering the awesomeness that was Graveyard. The Washington, D.C.-a... More >>

• The Weekend In Live Music, September 26 - 28

  published Sep 26, 2008

  Friday, September 26: *Smart-guy metal bands the Sword and Clutch play at Culture Room in Ft. Lauderdale. Click here to read more about both. *The South Dakota-based, Nakota nation band Indigenous ... More >>

• Vivalevox Live Tomorrow Night at the Vagabond

  published Sep 25, 2008

  One of my favorite things about the Friday night party about the Vagabond is its mixture of just enough live music -- one band on the patio a week -- with the usual DJ fun. But beyond that, since th... More >>

• Q&A with the Sword, Playing at Culture Room on Friday

  published Sep 24, 2008

  J. Thompson The Sword are a hard-hitting, sludgy, but epic quartet from Austin, Texas, who are preoccupied with very metally subjects like Norse mythology and the science fiction writings of George ... More >>

• Kendall Band I Set My Friends on Fire Makes It Big the MySpace Way

  published September 25, 2008

  After the third time MySpace deleted their band's page, Matt Mihana, then age 17, and Nabil Moo, then age 18, considered abandoning both the... More >>