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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2005 Stories by Serene Dominic

• Alicia Keys

  published March 10, 2005

  If you wonder why former Clive Davis wonderchild Whitney Houston is such a mess these days, look no further than current Clive Davis wonderchild... More >>

• Comings and goings on the local scene

  published February 24, 2005

  Where do underage pirates go when they're thirsty? To the soda barrr! Or at least that is where Jake Slider and Jason "Ace" McClellan hope... More >>

• The Tubes

  published February 24, 2005

  Phoenix's other gift to theatrical rock, the Tubes, challenged Alice Cooper's supremacy with their similarly decadent front man Fee Waybill as... More >>

• Some Other Monster

  published February 17, 2005

  When the award-winning Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster was released on DVD late last month, it came bundled with a disc of bonus... More >>

• The Epitaph Tour

  published February 17, 2005

  Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz started Epitaph Records in the '80s primarily as an outlet for his band's records, but soon expanded its... More >>

• Dennis DeYoung

  published February 10, 2005

  A favorite critics' punching bag for decades, Dennis DeYoung has become something of an antihero for his former detractors ever since VH1's... More >>

• Modest Mouse, and Cass McCombs

  published February 10, 2005

  What else can you say about an indie band that's suddenly on every TV show still hosting live music? Or about a lead singer like Isaac Brock, who... More >>

• Queensrÿche

  published February 10, 2005

  Calling these guys the thinking man's heavy metal band may be a lopsided compliment, like identifying Nicole Richie as the brainier one on... More >>

• Soulfly, and Morbid Angel

  published February 3, 2005

  If old-school metal fans view Soulfly as once-removed from singer/guitarist/songwriter Max Cavalera's earlier band Sepultura, now they can view... More >>

• Pepper, and Authority Zero

  published February 3, 2005

  The safe money is on local heroes and special guests Authority Zero to be the night's big crowd-pleasers; they will certainly be kicking the ass... More >>

• Citizen Cope

  published January 27, 2005

  Carson Daly prefaced Citizen Cope's network TV debut with some blubbering comparisons to Bob Dylan and John Lennon, which Cope obliterated by... More >>

• You Say You Wanna Resolution . . .

  published January 20, 2005

  It's the third week of January. By now, if you're like everyone else we know, you've broken your New Year's resolution -- popped that Vicodin,... More >>

• Caught on Tape

  published January 20, 2005

  If you heard a quiet tear falling as December 31 ushered in yet another stupid year, it might have been gear heads sobbing over the end of an era.... More >>

• Touching base with local projects

  published January 13, 2005

  The flyaway pages of the calendar bring us to 2005, midway point where some exciting new music has got to emerge to atone for this decade's... More >>