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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2009 Stories by Arielle Castillo

• More Langerado Rescheduling: Flogging Molly and Against Me! To Play Together Mar. 6

  published Feb 06, 2009

  Pompano Beach Amphitheatre has claimed what would have been Langerado weekend as a sort of early St. Patrick's Day celebration. Crossfade just announced that the Pogues will play the venue on Mar. 7 (... More >>

• Girl Talk's and Deerhunter's Langerado Show Moved to Culture Room, Sunday, Mar. 8

  published Feb 05, 2009

  Now that Langerado's cancelled, expect many of the bands to announce smaller shows throughout South Florida. Word is, booking agents started calling local promoters a few days before the official canc... More >>

• Here's a Festival For Hard Rock Fans Up North: The Buzz's Locofest

  published Feb 05, 2009

  If you loooove the kinds of bands that are played during "active rock" radio formats, you will loooove Locofest, a weekend shebang sponsored by the Buzz 103.1 on March 14. Held at the Palm Beach Inter... More >>

• Buggah Da Govannah Tells You Who's Haitian

  published Feb 05, 2009

  Buggah D. Govannah (pronounced Governor) has been a fixture in Miami's hip-hop scene for a long time now. Here's an old picture of him with Wyclef. In this segment of Who's Haitian, Buggah gives you s... More >>

• Feeling Festival Lossr Aching For a Road Tripr Harvest of Hope Festival in St. Augustine Fills in Some Langerado Gaps

  published Feb 04, 2009

  Okay, St. Augustine is pretty damn far from here. And half of the bands on the Harvest of Hope festival bill, well, we've never heard of them. However, if you overwhelmed with a sense of loss after La... More >>

• Streetlight Manifesto

  published February 5, 2009

  New Jersey's Streetlight Manifesto deserves a couple of props. First, for still carrying the torch of third-wave ska as it was largely played... More >>

• KRS-One To Play City Limits on Mar. 5

  published Feb 02, 2009

  KRS-One's been no stranger to South Florida, playing a couple of gigs at Miami's now-defunct Studio A over the past couple of years. He's coming back, but this time a little further north, to City Lim... More >>

• 311, James Taylor, G. Love & Special Sauce Among Artists Announced for SunFest 2009

  published Jan 30, 2009

  SunFest, in West Palm Beach, has always impressed me, 1) for the expensive, marquee names it has attracted, but also 2) for the really strange ways it has often combined them. The festival, in... More >>

• Slayer, Marilyn Manson to Headline This Year's Mayhem Festival, in West Palm Beach Aug. 12

  published Jan 30, 2009

  Last year marked the inauguration of the Rockstar Mayhem Festival tour, a summer package from the creators of Warped Tour that featured heavier acts. There were some pretty surprising bands on t... More >>

• Designer Drugs to Return to South Florida, This Time to West Palm

  published Jan 30, 2009

  ...Um, the DJs. Or at least, we think that should be plural -- South Florida has been receiving a spate of solo spinners in place of advertised teams. At the recent (fun!) Scion House Party at the Vag... More >>

• Last Night: Bad Manners and the English Beat at Culture Room

  published Jan 29, 2009

  Bad Manners and the English BeatWednesday, January 28, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Feeling sorry for yourself, anywhereThe Review:When a portly, fiftysomething man in a floppy, sweaty... More >>

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  New Artists Added to Langerado: Modest Mouse and More

  published Jan 28, 2009

  A number of really surprisingly awesome artists have already been announced for Langerado's debut year in Miami. Today, the festival added four more: Modest Mouse, Deerhunter, the Gene Ween Band, and ... More >>

• Free DJ Mix From Monthly Grand Groove Party, Tonight at Jazid

  published Jan 28, 2009

  The last Wednesday of every month, the Grand Groove crew takes over the upstairs at Jazid, playing a hip-hop, funk, and soul-heavy blend of classics and soon-to-be classics. Here's the description fro... More >>

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  Fall Out Boy to Play Mizner Park Amphitheatre, April 21

  published Jan 28, 2009

  The last time Fall Out Boy headlined in South Florida, it was for a gig with Gym Class Heroes and Plain White T's at the Fillmore Miami Beach, on Halloween 2007. That theater seemed like a smallish ve... More >>

• Dave Seaman Returns to Shine at the Shelborne on Friday

  published Jan 28, 2009

  The Leeds-born house DJ Dave Seaman, is by now, is a worldwide household name in electronic music, with countless mix albums and original releases, a record label (Audio Therapy), and a constant inter... More >>

• 3 Doors Down to Play Mizner Park Amphitheatre on Friday - Whether You Like It Or Not

  published Jan 28, 2009

  Whether music snobs like it or not, the Mississippi-birthed, meat-and-potatoes rock act 3 Doors Down has survived -- and thrived -- for over a decade and a half now. Even those who can't identify by n... More >>

• Thug Sinatra's Back, Now at Provocateur, Starting Friday

  published Jan 28, 2009

  If you read Crossfade or New Times at all, you'll know that John Hood is a regular contributor (and a regular man-about-town). But long ago, before I was his "boss" (although nobody is really the Hood... More >>

• Dave Seaman

  published January 29, 2009

  The Leeds-born house DJ Dave Seaman is by now a worldwide household name in electronic music, with countless mix albums and original releases,... More >>

• The Machine

  published January 29, 2009

  Hardcore Pink Floyd fans are exactly that — deeply, sometimes scarily knowledgeable about their favorite band, and sticklers for accuracy... More >>

• The Machine, America's Top Pink Floyd Tribute Act, to Play Revolution on Thursday

  published Jan 27, 2009

  Hardcore Pink Floyd fans are exactly that -- deeply, sometimes scarily knowledgeable about their favorite band, and sticklers for accuracy and respect in reproducing its music. And from a sh... More >>

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  Shelborne Announces WMC Opening Pool Party With David Guetta ... For $10!

  published Jan 27, 2009

  The scaling back of this past Art Basel Miami Beach was noticeable, with fewer freebies and lower-key events. So it's safe to assume that the final big event of the "season," Winter Music Confere... More >>

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  Black Lips Ticket Presale Change

  published Jan 26, 2009

  If you are thinking of attending the Black Lips show at Churchill's on Friday, March 27, you should probably buy presale tickets -- the show is most likely going to sell out. The source for online tic... More >>

• Village Voice Releases its Annual Pazz & Jop Poll

  published Jan 23, 2009

  New Times' sister paper, the Village Voice, has been running its annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll since 1971. And while it's among the last in the "best-of" national roundups, it's been one of the ... More >>

• Finalists Announced for New Times' Langerado Battle of the Bands

  published Jan 22, 2009

  As Crossfade announced last month, New Times is partnering with Gulfstream Park in a Battle of the Bands; the winner gets to play at the upcoming Langerado music festival. Nine finalists have been cho... More >>

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  Last Night: Jim Norton at the South Beach Comedy Festival

  published Jan 22, 2009

  Jim NortonWith Amy SchumerWednesday, January 21The Lincoln Theater, Miami BeachBetter Than: Cheech & Chong's show around the corner, maybeThe Review:It's unclear whether the big, bad economy can b... More >>