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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2007 Stories by Serene Dominic

• Mindcrime and Punishment

  published May 24, 2007

  Even armed with an illustrated libretto, it's hard to divine most rock opera story lines. Before Ken Russell's film adaptation of Tommy... More >>

• Jeff Dahl

  published May 17, 2007

  Although Dahl's the closest thing the Valley has to a punk elder statesman, the bulk of Jeff Dahl's extensive "three chords and a bad attitude"... More >>

• Obadiah Parker

  published May 17, 2007

  Last month's YouTube phenomenon — Alanis Morrisette's parody of "My Humps" — revealed what we all suspected, that Fergie's ode to her... More >>

• Priestbird

  published May 10, 2007

  If you believe in reincarnation as torture, then imagine all the A&R people who, in past lives, signed nothing but copycat bands and reality show... More >>

• Green Way

  published April 19, 2007

  After touring incessantly from 1996 to 2001, local trio Fred Green had an enviable fan base and horror stories from the road to prove it. Tons of... More >>

• Brotherly Love

  published March 15, 2007

  A video on YouTube titled Great Moments in History begins, somberly enough, with the strains of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. All the... More >>

• Flogging Molly

  published March 15, 2007

  Before Shane MacGowan and his rotting teeth had the ruffian idea of merging punk and traditional Irish music, all Celtic headbangers had were The... More >>

• Blood Sweat & Tears

  published March 8, 2007

  Most critics gave up on these horndogs back in '68, when they had the temerity to boot out founder Al Kooper to get someone who could really... More >>

• Rock Star: Supernova

  published February 22, 2007

  Think about how many reality-TV-show marriages have ended in divorce — and then think about how many groups created in the artificial light... More >>

• The Pussycat Dolls

  published February 22, 2007

  Until some impresario rounds up a troupe of working prostitutes to personally give each audience member a hand job, you're not going to get a... More >>