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

• Panic Bomber

  published January 8, 2009

  Retro-videogame nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at The Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo... More >>

• Seventies Soul Jam Still On at WPB's Kravis Center, Jan. 15

  published Jan 07, 2009

  As the Seventies ended and disco pushed into the mainstream, those who came of age during that period always seemed to be reminded that they had missed out on the great cultural revolution of the ragi... More >>

• Inked and Loud

  published January 8, 2009

  Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundreds of tattoo needles buzzing, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack: an... More >>

• Random Book Review: Three Wishes: An Intimate Look at Jazz Greats

  published Jan 06, 2009

  Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter still looms in the margins of jazz history. Until now, her contributions during the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies were known mostly to insiders, aficionados, hist... More >>

• Throwback Tuesdays: The Impacts - "Ft. Lauderdale"

  published Jan 06, 2009

  Probably the only surf-rock song nearly everyone recognizes is "Wipe Out!" (if you really need a reminder, click here). And the version with which people are familiar is that done in 1963 by the Surfa... More >>

• Three Local Live Nation Venues Say Bye-Bye to Ticketmaster

  published Jan 06, 2009

  This past December, Rolling Stone published an interesting industry - centric article detailing the ongoing business battle between ticket-sale monolith Ticketmaster, and live-show monolith Live Natio... More >>

• Introducing Subterranean Finds, a New Crossfade Album Review Column

  published Jan 06, 2009

  The last thing the world needs is another rant by some snooty music scribe who actually believes he can peg the next Coldplay or validate some MySpace wannabe. Don't worry; yours truly doesn't make an... More >>

• Free MP3: New Mayday! Single -- "On 2 Somth'n"

  published Jan 06, 2009

  When New Times last checked in with Miami's premier live hip-hop party, Mayday!, we were happy to see they had survived the wave of almost-hype in '06/'07 and were back to the grind. (Nutshell refresh... More >>

• Album Review: Combichrist - Today We Are All Demons, Jan. 14 at Respectable St.

  published Jan 06, 2009

  On Combichrist's fourth and latest album, Today We Are All Demons, the band's mastermind, Andy LaPlegua, effectively ups the ante on the tried-and-true answering machine intro. It begins with a messag... More >>

• Manager/Booker/Promoter Mike Toms Leaves Churchill's

  published Jan 06, 2009

  Churchill's at nightPhoto by Tony VargasLongtime Churchill's Pub manager/booker/in-house promoter, Michael Toms, made his exit from the venerable Miami institution this past January 1. Churchill's mar... More >>

• Disgruntled Musician Panic Bomber Brings His Dancefloor Manifesto to the Vagabond on Friday

  published Jan 05, 2009

  Retro video game nerds, don't get too excited. Friday's guest act at the Vagabond has nothing to do with the mostly forgotten Nineties Nintendo game, but rather has appropriated the moniker, a la Crys... More >>

• Free Podcast from DJ Alex Caso Features "Miami Stoner Disco"

  published Jan 05, 2009

  Few local DJs in any genre have such a scarily deep and broad knowledge of music as Alex Caso. Able to wax poetic on and dig deep into any genre from psychedelic garage nuggets, to Jamaican rocksteady... More >>

• Galactic's Show Friday at Revolution Should Be Heavy on Horns, Light on MCs

  published Jan 05, 2009

  (Photo via Galacticfunk.com)So how does a group of (mostly) non-native college students go on to become ambassadors of New Orleans funkr For Galactic, of which all but one of the band's current member... More >>

• Local Bands to Watch: Stonefox and the Pretty Faces, Both at City Limits on Friday

  published Jan 05, 2009

  (Photo via Stonefox's MySpace page)Stonefox is a garage band in the purest sense of the word -- except, perhaps, for the fact that they did most of their recording in living rooms. But they did accomp... More >>

• Smash Mouth Still Around, Performing at Dolphin Stadium Tailgate Party This Thursday

  published Jan 05, 2009

  (Photo via Smash Mouth's MySpace page.)If a band exists solely to keep the party going -- as California's Smash Mouth clearly does -- it makes perfect sense to catch that band in a tailgate-party sett... More >>

• Brisco, DJ Laz, Evergreen Terrace, and Madball Among Musicians to Play Miami Tattoo Expo This Weekend

  published Jan 05, 2009

  Madball (photo via the band's Myspace page)Beyond the unending, dentist-office-like whir of hundred of tattoo needles buzzing on and off, the Miami Tattoo Expo will feature another soundtrack -- an ... More >>