Christine Borges

Category: Digital Portfolio

  • Interview with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has a thousand stories to tell. The group’s only remaining original member helped found the Pumpkins in 1988 after relocating to his native Chicago from none other than St. Petersburg, Florida. He’d moved to the Sunshine State briefly in ’85 after graduating…

  • Interview with CocoRosie

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Sierra and Bianca Casady are hard to pin down. The sisters’ output as CocoRosie — the increasingly electro-styled folk project with nods to European television, Native American chants, Victorian operettas, and Hipstamatic photographs — still gets tagged as freak-folk, and it’s all over the map. Unsurprising, then,…

  • Smashing Pumpkins at Revolution Live 7/20

    Although D’arcy, James, and Jimmy left the band many moons ago, it’s hard to hide loyalty for the Smashing Pumpkins original lineup. That said, this show, featuring lone original member Billy Corgan and backing band of new recruits, exceeded what was expected. Last night was definitely the Billy show, though,…

  • Interview with Jacob Graham of the Drums

    Featured on MiamiNewTimes.com Brooklyn-based indie-poppers The Drums aren’t what you think they are. Sure, they put out their Summertime! EP, filled with beach-themed tracks like “Let’s Go Surfing,” “Down by the Water,” and “Submarine.” But they actually mentioned to us recently that they probably wouldn’t go to the beach if…

  • Behind the Lens: Ian Witlen of the Camera Clicks

    Featured on SocietePerrier.com Ian Witlen knows the ins and outs of South Florida’s music scene, and covers it extensively for the Miami and Broward-Palm Beach New Times. He’s come up with visual accounts that many people that attend said concerts just couldn’t see. Witlen tells a story with his in-the-trenches…

  • Interview with Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba has done his fair share of wooing behind his guitar. Lauded as one of the poster boys of the emo indie-rock movement, he’s challenged other competitors to be just as charming and sincere with their lyrics as he is — and they’ve…

  • Dashboard Confessional’s Swiss Army Romance Tenth Anniversary at Revolution 11/27

    Featured on BrowardPalmBeach.com Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba had his work cut out for him last night. Why? Because each and every single person in that room knew the lyrics to all the songs spanning his career in DC. He decided to play solo for the night, much like he…

  • LCD Soundsystem at Private MOCA Los Angeles Beach Party 12/1

    It’s pretty hard to properly assess what an art crowd’s reaction is going to be to a dance-all-night band like LCD Soundsystem, especially when tables and chairs are laid out across the “dance floor.” Would the crowd rush to the stage and dance without a care in the world? Would…

  • N*E*R*D at FriendsWithYou’s Rainbow City 12/2

    If you were part of the massive mob outside Rainbow City yesterday, waiting to catch a glimpse of Pharrell Williams and N*E*R*D, we feel your pain. Pushing and shoving was at an ultimate high, and doormen (actually, women in particular) were extremely hostile and aggressive — a weird juxtaposition with…

  • YACHT at Bardot Miami 6/2

    At 12:04 a.m. on Saturday night, a little piece of dance heaven landed at Bardot. It arrived from Portland, Los Angeles, and Texas after more than 200 miles of driving and about 58 ounces of coffee. Ultimately, though, the mission was accomplished. And Yacht succeeded in creating a “Temporary Autonomous…