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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1999 Stories by Serene Dominic

• Secrete Santas

  published December 23, 1999

  December 24th -- The Cole Residence: It was a storybook Christmas Eve. Natalie, shimmering in snow white chiffon, was busily piling up... More >>

• Along Comes Gary?

  published December 16, 1999

  Unless you're a diehard fan, working with a former rock star isn't all that memorable an experience. Most likely your co-worker resembles one of... More >>

• Replica for a Heavyweight

  published November 25, 1999

  In case you dispute that the "classic rock" demographic cared way more about the music of their youth than any generation before or since,... More >>

• Instrumental Asylum

  published November 18, 1999

  Music is supposed to be the universal language, but a swish pan across your CD collection and mine will only illustrate how much music keeps us... More >>

• Rock 'n' Roll for Dummies

  published October 28, 1999

  Wanna know how come no one paints his or her favorite band's name on the back of a denim jacket anymore? It's not because blue jean jackets are... More >>

• Lamb of Garth, Have Mercy on Us!

  published October 21, 1999

  This is the type of thing you dream about. A bloated celebrity making a horrible slip like this. This is the type of thing a whole country can... More >>

• Film Faux-Pop Stars

  published October 21, 1999

  Why wait to see Chris Gaines on the silver screen? There are already countless unconvincing rock wanna-bes with a feature film in the can.... More >>

• The Wonderful World of S&M

  published September 23, 1999

  Following the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968, children's watchdog groups sprang up and pointed a collective... More >>

• Krofft Works

  published September 23, 1999

  H.R. Pufnstuf You could fetch a pretty penny if you had the seven-inch TV soundtrack album containing songs like "Mechanical... More >>

• Beatles for Cels

  published September 16, 1999

  Yellow Submarine, the 1968 full-length Beatles animated movie, has been rereleased to much fanfare, but what about The Beatles, the... More >>

• Sub-mission

  published September 16, 1999

  The Beatles Yellow Submarine Songtrack (Apple) Most people's candidate for least fab Beatles album is the... More >>

• Clark Leaves Her Mark -- But Where?

  published September 9, 1999

  This week Petula Clark takes the Gammage Auditorium stage in the touring version of the Broadway musical Sunset Boulevard, stepping into... More >>

• Spare the Rod, Gimme the Faces

  published August 19, 1999

  Now I look back, think I've known all the time I've been fighting myself for so long All the vows we made gone for old rags... More >>

• Good Boys When They're Moonlighting

  published August 19, 1999

  No one ever demands to know how many Rolling Stones were present for a session to qualify it as a Stones recording. As long as Mick Jagger and... More >>

• Molten Wax

  published August 12, 1999

  Various artists We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 (Cleopatra) The Friar's Club couldn't have concocted a better... More >>

• Stoner Rock Royalty

  published August 5, 1999

  Was it Magnet, Spin or Pulse! that first coined the insidious term "stoner rock" in an effort to describe a new sound... More >>

• At Long Lost Live?

  published July 22, 1999

  This may not be cause for concern for some of you whose lives revolve around something besides obscure and trivial music-related events, but deep... More >>

• Single Live Gonzo!

  published July 22, 1999

  First Live Album Created Entirely in the Studio: Johnny Rivers Johnny Rivers at the Whisky A-Go-Go (1964) It doesn't take a... More >>

• Recordings

  published July 15, 1999

  Gladys Knight & the Pips Claudine Bobby Womack The Poet Leon Huff Here to Make Music (The Right... More >>

• Mystery Men

  published May 13, 1999

  If rock's first half-century ends with Korn's "Rock Is Dead" tour pulling down the largest 1999 concert receipts, what hope could there possibly... More >>

• Dusty Rides Again

  published April 22, 1999

  In 1972, an eclectic Dusty Springfield album called See All Her Faces was released to every market but the United States. Unfortunately, we... More >>

• I Want My MP3!

  published April 15, 1999

  What's most disturbing isn't the notion that the world will end by the year 2000, but that it will continue going on, business as usual, muddling... More >>

• It's Still Rotten Joel to Me

  published April 8, 1999

  You may be right. I may be crazy for even getting upset about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, like the guy who bolts out of his easy chair to... More >>

• Kramer vs. Kramer

  published March 11, 1999

  Everybody has an agenda, you say? That may well be true, but it's hard to imagine Creed, Fastball or whatever selections you can order from the... More >>

• Disco Infernal

  published February 18, 1999

  Disco dead? Hardly. According to Headbangers Against Disco (or H.A.D.) it's still alive and sucking. This self-proclaimed "idealistic... More >>