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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2004 Stories by Serene Dominic

• Wassup with Valley musicians

  published December 23, 2004

  If you've been waiting for someone to have that Reese's Peanut Butter Cup accident that ends with, "Hey, you got electronica in my rock and rap,"... More >>

• Dollyrots

  published December 16, 2004

  Before landing a record deal in 1978, the Police dyed their collective locks blond and posed as a punk band for a bubblegum advert. That wasn't... More >>

• Isis, and These Arms Are Snakes

  published December 16, 2004

  Q: Are we not metal? A: Yeah, sorta. Both bands on this bill are enormous-sounding, but they achieve their audio girth from dissimilar... More >>

• Touching base with local projects

  published December 9, 2004

  As far as bands with unassailable names go, you don't get any better than Awesome. See how we've bolded the word Awesome right at the top... More >>

• Radiotakeover Tour

  published December 2, 2004

  Radioabandonment Tour is more like it. Nobody's singing "We Want the Airwaves" anthems anymore, and since Joey Ramone's look-alike Howard Stern... More >>

• Deke Dickerson

  published November 25, 2004

  If you've ever wondered, "When does retro get old?", you're probably not going to see Deke Dickerson and then eat at the 5 & Diner after the show.... More >>

• Doubly Bubbly

  published November 18, 2004

  You can kiss the usual questions goodbye when interviewing a band comprising a 17-year-old girl and her dad. Ask about the sex and the drugs and... More >>

• Keith Emerson, Scorpions, and Tesla

  published November 18, 2004

  How can you pack this much arena rock into one arena? Wait 35 years and you can have Keith Emerson as a supporting act. In his day, rock's key... More >>

• The Donnas/

  Von Bondies

  published November 11, 2004

  Figures. The minute the Donnas put a cartoon of themselves on an album cover, they stop being one. Gone are the uninterrupted sneers that meant... More >>

• Massive Stars

  published November 4, 2004

  Log on to the Gloritone Web site and you'll find yourself redirected to www.massivestars.net, home of... More >>

• Neil Innes

  published November 4, 2004

  When people think of musical satirists, they think of "Weird Al" Yankovic song parodies when they should be thinking of Neil Innes, a guy who... More >>

• The Last Vegas

  published November 4, 2004

  Gaze upon the cover of the Last Vegas' sensitively titled Get Hip debut, Lick 'Em and Leave 'Em, and you're face to face with four... More >>

• Home Grown

  published October 28, 2004

  "We are the Sciannas/We drink beer instead of wine/We are the Sciannas/We wear suits and ties." Any band that pens its own theme song is... More >>

• Mush Records Tour

  published October 14, 2004

  Mush is a Los Angeles indie label specializing in electronica deconstructionists, all with names that sound like overnight FM DJs. Among the acts... More >>

• The Silos

  published October 14, 2004

  The Silos were alternative-country before alternative-country was cool. Yes, that means the '80s, when country music was just as tarted up and... More >>

• Country Consorts

  published October 7, 2004

  Isn't science remarkable? You can drop a laser beam on a silver disc and be musically transported back to some circa-1958 VA hall, slow dancing to... More >>

• Senses Fail

  published October 7, 2004

  Now with their hot-selling Let It Enfold You, the avenging emo-nerds of Senses Fail are gonna put all you mean girls in your place. When... More >>

• The Melvins

  published October 7, 2004

  They didn't put Aberdeen on the musical map with their 1987 debut -- it took Nirvana to do that. All the same, the Melvins' place in rock... More >>

• Norah Jones

  published October 7, 2004

  If you've sat alone in a Starbucks, if you've wandered aimlessly in a Borders bookstore, if you've gone shopping anywhere after 9 p.m., you've... More >>

• Home Grown

  published September 30, 2004

  Inexplicably, La Tarea's nine-song demo finally found its way to this column two seasons after the local shows it was sent in to promote.... More >>

• Stereotyperider CD release party

  published September 30, 2004

  I hold in my hands the newly mastered Stereotyperider album, Prolonging the Inevitable, on a CD-R, the Sharpie permanent marker ink barely... More >>

• The Holmes Brothers

  published September 30, 2004

  If you lived in Manhattan during the '80s, it was almost unthinkable that you could go out to a club or bar and not hear the blues. The generous... More >>

• Side Projectors

  published September 23, 2004

  There's a reason crime and punishment stories work best in an antiquated setting. Bloody jpegs of a crime scene can't match the romance of... More >>

• Home Grown

  published September 23, 2004

  A punk rock club with its own record label promises great things, and that's just what Rogue Records -- named after the Scottsdale nightspot --... More >>

• Vote for Change Tour

  published September 23, 2004

  I vote for change -- to this lousy bill! It doesn't bode well for Arizona's image in the national arena that the rest of the country (the... More >>