Email Author Serene Dominic

Awards

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 12, 2007

  "Back on the Sun"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  The music beat

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1995 Stories by Serene Dominic

• DIM BULBIS ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA PART II REALLY ELO WITHOUT FOUNDER JEFF LYNNE?

  published July 27, 1995

  They were six fine English boys Who knew each other in Birmingham They bought a drum and guitar Started a rock-roll band And... More >>

• MISCELLANEOUS RECORDINGS

  published July 27, 1995

  Foo Fighters Foo Fighters (Roswell/Capitol) "Now what?" God, how Dave Grohl must have grown to loathe that query over... More >>

• RECORDINGS:

  published July 20, 1995

  Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers Free Like We Want 2 B (Elektra) Winning a Grammy is the artistic equivalent of contracting a... More >>

• THE ART OF ZEN LUNATICS

  published July 13, 1995

  It's 10 a.m. and Terry Garvin of Zen Lunatics is cuckoo. For the munchy, crunchy, chocolatey taste of Cocoa Puffs, that is. It's an... More >>

• HISTORY REPEATS HISSELFTO OUTSELL THRILLER, MICHAEL JACKSON SELLS HIMSELF AND HIS FANS SHORT

  published June 29, 1995

  The worst thing we could've done to Michael Jackson was to buy 40 million copies of Thriller. Up until that record-breaking point, Jackson was an... More >>

• THE SKA'S THE LIMITPHOENIX'S KONGO SHOCK IS STARTING A SKANK LINE OUT OF THE VALLEY

  published June 22, 1995

  It's a given: Most Americans know ca-ca about ska. To date, we've only sent one record with a skanking beat into the Top 5--Little Millie... More >>

• ENTERTAINMENT GOOD NIGHTWILL JOHN TESH'S SUCCESSFUL MUSIC CAREER EVER ECLIPSE HIS CELEBRITY AS THE GUY ON MARY HART'S LEFT?

  published June 15, 1995

  Because we refer to television as "the vast wasteland," we don't put much stock in music made by its inhabitants. Plenty of TV personalities have... More >>

• IF IT WEREN'T FOR ALL YOU LITTLE PEOPLE . . . WHY PETER FRAMPTON OWES IT ALL TO THE CROWD

  published June 8, 1995

  Live albums? Why, they're either contractual obligations or shameful cash-ins for someone who's just bolted from his record label. More often,... More >>

• HIP-HOP SITCOM BOOM? BAH!

  published June 1, 1995

  From its humble beginnings in the South Bronx to "Rappers Delight" to Run-DMC, N.W.A and beyond, hip-hop has proved to be the most vital and... More >>

• LIVE SHOTS

  published May 18, 1995

  Jimmy Page and Robert Plant America West Arena May 10, 1995 "This can't be a Led Zeppelin show. I feel so... More >>

• SOMETHING TO CROWE ABOUTCOUNT ON CHRIS ROBINSON AND COMPANY TO CARRY THE ROCK 'N' ROLL BANNER FOR AMORICA

  published May 18, 1995

  Steve Gorman, drummer for the Black Crowes, remembers the first time he realized his band was no longer the new kid on the block. "Two... More >>

• ANNIE HAD A CO-WORKER

  published May 11, 1995

  Just how uptight were Americans about s-e-x in 1954? That year, squeaky clean Rosemary Clooney's "Mambo Italiano" got blacklisted by ABC... More >>

• WHO'S THE FIFTH LED ZEPPELIN?

  published May 4, 1995

  There's a famous film clip of the Beatles, newly arrived in America, riding in a limousine and listening incredulously to a transistor radio. From... More >>

• TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, AND JAYHAWKSDESERT SKY PAVILION, JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION THE ROXY, MATTHEW SWEET, AND SONNY LANDRETHTHE ROCKIN' HORSE APRIL 25, 1995

  published May 4, 1995

  Tom Petty occupies a strange place in our collective psyche. Because of his notable collaborations with respected rock elders like Bob... More >>

• RECORDINGS, 4-27

  published April 27, 1995

  Glenn Frey Solo Collection (MCA) How much water can one ex-Eagle tread? Prior to all of last year's Eagles reunion by-products,... More >>

• THE OTHER SIDE OF IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA

  published April 20, 1995

  If you believe the myths, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" was either a drunk mispronouncing "in the garden of Eden" or else it was very bad Latin for "play... More >>

• VARIOUS ARTISTS

  published April 13, 1995

  Hell-Bent: Insurgent Country Volume 2 (Bloodshot) Insurgent, indeed! How dare they, these young bands of scofflaws, going and... More >>

• TAPES IN THE MAIL AGAIN

  published April 13, 1995

  At last--I've found it! After years of vein-popping concentration searching for unique descriptions, after developing blisters on every finger... More >>

• RECORDINGS

  published April 6, 1995

  Trisha Yearwood Thinkin' About You (MCA) And you won't feel like a dweeb thinkin' about her, either. Trisha Yearwood is a rare... More >>

• MERCURY RISES AGAIN, OR FREDDIE'S STILL DEAD, VOL. 4REPACKAGE TRACES QUEEN'S FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD TO OVERINDULGENCE

  published March 30, 1995

  Feast your eyes on these humble liner notes: "THIS is an event. Not merely the release of more 'product,' but a major milestone in the annals of... More >>

• SEASONS IN THE SEVENTIESPHOENIX'S K-HITS BELIEVES IN YESTERDAY, BUT ONLY IF IT CHARTED AFTER 1969 AND BEFORE 1980

  published March 23, 1995

  Two years ago, Phoenix's then-newest oldies station, KPSN-FM "Sunny 97," hit the airwaves playing Arthur Conley's 1967 hit "Sweet Soul Music." At... More >>

• OLD, GIFTED AND BACKPETER, PAUL AND MARY THROW OUT LIFELINES TO ANOTHER GENERATION

  published March 16, 1995

  Quick--who did more for rock 'n' roll, Martha and the Vandellas or Peter, Paul and Mary? Your first instinct is to go with the girls from... More >>

• RECORDINGS

  published March 9, 1995

  Morrissey World of Morrissey (Sire/Reprise) Back in the Sixties, patchwork albums like Magic Bus: The Who on Tour or... More >>

• RECORDINGS

  published March 2, 1995

  Throwing Muses University (Sire) Throwing Muses used to be an easy band to loathe. Chief Muse Kristin Hersh wrote wildly... More >>

• LIVE SHOTS

  published March 2, 1995

  Dag, and Mother May I Neeb Hall, Arizona State University campus, Tempe February 22, 1995 If you ever thought that being signed to... More >>