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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2012 Stories by Serene Dominic

• TheRecordingArtist.com Remakes the Music Biz

  published November 1, 2012

  Oh, foolish, foolish record industry! You could've saved yourself once — maybe twice over — if only you had you listened to... More >>

• Bringing It Together Like Pangea @ Trunk Space

  published August 2, 2012

  The idea of Los Angeles and Phoenix performers uniting for a split LP of collaborative love may sound pleasant, but the results are hardly... More >>

• Kongos Are Huge in South Africa -- Is Phoenix Next?

  published July 19, 2012

  Don't worry, Arizona hipsters: There still is time to get behind Kongos. I know how you fickle fans operate. You drop a band and put... More >>

• Eclecticism Is The Elephant in the Room by Banana Gun

  published June 21, 2012

  Just as fortunetellers have their little fishing expeditions to crack a sucker's psyche, so, too, rock writers have their shortcuts on... More >>

• Sunorus Displays (Almost) All Its Faces on Sixth Record

  published June 14, 2012

  It's that quiet moment after a rehearsal when players smoke their smokes and drink their drinks out on a front porch. Everyone has said his... More >>

• Before Braille's David Jensen Returns With New Band Loyal Wife

  published May 10, 2012

  How to measure loyalty, commitment, devotion? In the case of David Jensen, of Sunset Alliance Records and guiding light behind Before... More >>

• Cage the Elephant @ Marquee Theatre

  published April 19, 2012

  Anytime a huge band takes a hiatus, bands of a similar stripe get an opportunity to move in quickly and make Huge Band's audience its own... More >>

• FoxVag III: Promoters Assures It Ain't Another Breast-Fest

  published March 22, 2012

  Although it's admittedly kinda fun putting Lilith Fair and FoxVag Fest in the same sentence, the two music expos couldn't be more dissimilar... More >>

• Source Victoria's Secret: Challenges Behind a Brilliant Album

  published February 16, 2012

  This scene invariably has played out in every musician's life — the point when one band member informs another he just proposed to his... More >>

• Parenthetical Girls @ Trunk Space

  published February 9, 2012

  Seeing Parenthetical Girls for the first time, via their Bergman-esque video for "A Song for Ellie Greenwich," induced the same chills I got... More >>

• World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Marquee Theatre

  published January 26, 2012

  Given the strict observance of "punk rock rules" that define the genre now, it's hard to believe that the original CBGB bands had more in... More >>

• Snow Songs: Cool Music for the Valley of the Sun

  published January 12, 2012

  The year 2011 may go down in history as the first year we paid more attention to where music will be stored and what delivery system it will... More >>