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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2008 Stories by Serene Dominic

• Kirkwood Dellinger Has a New Sound That’s “Not Dug From the Same Graveyard As Everything Else You Hear”

  published December 11, 2008

  If anyone's compiling a reel of defining Arizona 21st-century rock moments, don't forget Kirkwood Dellinger's January 2008 appearance on Good... More >>

• The Free Way

  published December 11, 2008

  Perhaps the sagest songwriting advice ever bestowed to a newbie came not from a how-to book or a multi-platinum recording artist but from some... More >>

• Kinch Makes Advances by Giving Their First Album Away

  published November 13, 2008

  Perhaps the sagest songwriting advice ever bestowed to a newbie came not from a how-to book or a multi-platinum recording artist but from some... More >>

• Back That Jazz Up

  published November 13, 2008

  With all the disparate influences Sonorous has in its lexis, the percentages of what you're going to get (and when) are always in flux, and this... More >>

• If You Haven’t Heard of Tech N9ne, He Hasn’t Been Doing His Job

  published October 23, 2008

  In watching the presidential campaign for what feels like forever, the phrase you keep hearing that's supposed to define people called to public... More >>

• Giantkiller: A David Versus Goliath Rematch with the Majors?

  published October 16, 2008

  Epic is a word that frequently punctuates Larry Elyea's conversation. Not enough times to warrant a drinking game — like with Sarah Palin... More >>

• Bicentennial Men

  published October 16, 2008

  Ask anyone alive during our country's 200th birthday in 1976, and they'll tell you it was still the Me Decade, but filtered through Eisenhower... More >>

• The Academy Is . . ., Hello Monday, & We the Kings

  published October 9, 2008

  MTV has a lot to answer for. Killing the radio star to force-feed us hair bands in the '80s. Re-imagining punk and grunge to be all those lousy... More >>

• fU, mtvU

  published October 9, 2008

  MTV has a lot to answer for. Killing the radio star to forcefeed us hair bands in the Eighties. Re-imagining punk and grunge to be all those lousy... More >>

• Antique Scream: Psychedelic Truck-Stop Rock or Three-Man Demolition Team?

  published October 2, 2008

  You have only weeks to make Antique Scream your favorite local band. That's right, a band you sometimes could've seen three nights a week... More >>

• Nick Lowe

  published October 2, 2008

  Recognized for producing of some of the greatest records of the punk era (Elvis Costello, The Damned, the Pretenders), Nick Lowe left the most... More >>

• Lowe, Lower, Lowest

  published October 2, 2008

  Recognized for producing of some of the greatest records of the punk era (Elvis Costello, The Damned, the Pretenders), it’s his own records... More >>

• None More Green

  published October 2, 2008

  It's either fortuitous psychic planning or just plain dumb luck that The Green Lady Killers released an EP that opens with a song called "Psycho... More >>

• For Shwayze, life imitates art imitating reality

  published September 18, 2008

  The biggest problem with biopics is that the longer and more impressive the career that's documented, the greater the number of milestone events... More >>

• Sludge metal pioneers, The Melvins, are still doing things their own way on Nude with Boots

  published August 21, 2008

  In a parallel universe that gets everything wrong, Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover would be capping the Melvins' first quarter-century mulling over... More >>

• Sugar High

  published August 14, 2008

  Power pop has always been about the comfort factor, the idea that no matter how dicey a boy-girl song situation is, the love emanating from a... More >>

• Totimoshi

  published July 31, 2008

  Rich and famous bands into their 10th year and sixth album demonstrate a worldview tempered by easy women and shysters. Hard-working bands with a... More >>

• Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band lack the star power of yesteryear

  published July 31, 2008

  Ringo's All-Starr shows used to be just that: All stars. You had actual frontmen of bands (Mark Farner, Peter Frampton, Burton Cummings,... More >>

• Traindead

  published July 10, 2008

  The only thing music correspondents are concerning themselves with right now is what's the song of the summer gonna be — that special... More >>

• American Idol: entertainment or evil?

  published June 26, 2008

  Detractors tell you American Idol is ruining pop music. Alarmists go even further, reminding us that American Idol is pop... More >>

• Greeley Estates

  published June 19, 2008

  The third album is the one fans generally have to worry about. It's usually the one in which a band has exhausted its supply of genuinely inspired... More >>

• Ten reasons Graham Nash deserves to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . . . again

  published June 19, 2008

  Down the list of least needy causes, it's just below a man standing next to his Hummer bumming for gas. But any true lover of melodic pop music... More >>

• Help Two-Time Graham Nash

  published June 19, 2008

  Down the list of least needy causes, it’s just below a man standing next to his Hummer bumming for gas. But any true lover of melodic pop... More >>

• Jimmy Eat World’s got more to do with The Boss than Panic at the Disco

  published June 12, 2008

  2008 is proving to be a quizzical summit for Jimmy Eat World. The global masticators from Mesa are touring in support of the still-new Chase... More >>

• Sting vs. Elvis Costello in a race to betray their punk roots

  published May 22, 2008

  There is a portion of Police and Elvis Costello devotees who have single-mindedly followed both artists' careers through three decades,... More >>