Part 1: Crashdïet LIVE at the Waffle House America is ready for Crashdïet! That’s right, we’ve got Sweden’s prime exporters of “sleaze hard rock” in their first American vidcast appearance. Makes ol’ Serene Dominic feel a bit like Ed Sullivan to be able to introduce to you for the first…
When did you first think Sting was a pompous twit? The love-me-I’m-tortured artistry of “King of Pain?” The way he sang “the bitter sting of tears” with a straight face on “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The way he withheld new songs for a 1986 Police reunion, resulting only in…
Previously on The Serene Dominic Show we chatted with Jono Manson in a motorbus waiting to go on at last Saturday’s Tempe Block Party. While Jono was onstage getting ready to perform, I got a chance to — in that very same motorbus–meet with Aaron Beaver of the Austin Texas…
Calling that Mott the Hoople a band’s band makes it sound like humans didn’t like them. Oh, but they did. In fact they loved them, back in the days when they sold out halls all over England but no one bought their records and then again later when everyone did…
The last time there was a Stills-Young double-bill was in 1978, when Neil Young bailed on the tour via telegram after nine dates. Now Pegi Young, Neil’s wife at that time and for the ensuing 33 years, is opening for Stephen Stills, and she assures anyone worried that she is…
The Monday after the Tempe Block Party, you would be within your rights to scratch your head and ask “Did that really happen?” And duly, “Did John Popper (of Blues Traveler), Shurman and Jono Manson fly in to play a free show with free food and drink in an apartment…
Jeez, who do you have to screw to be nicknamed “The Devil”? I mean, Jerry Lee Lewis married his teenage cuz and got booted out of Bible school for playing a boogie-woogie version of “My God Is Real,” and the best he could come away with was “The Killer.” Jesse…
Some vidcasts you just have to make a leap of faith that everything will work out all right. Like when singer songwriter Lonna Kelly tells you she’s just formed a girl group called Make My Baby, you book them on the show and ask questions later which is what we…
In case you were thinking that maybe we’d sucker you into watching a Serene Dominic vidcast with special guest Judas Priest and then turn around and have Glen Tipton and Ian Hill hand puppets, you know, pull some of those journalistic pranks that New Times is notorious for –guess again!…
One of the advantages of being older than dirt is seeing some of your New Times predictions come true. Luckily this one didn’t take too long. I anticipated big things for these four brothers from South Africa, who call themselves KONGOS, when I first wrote about them in 2007. So…
Because the normal channels of communication weren’t enough for you voracious non-readers, New Times and Up on the Sun have agreed to jumpstart and update the old school Serene Dominic vidcasts of yesteryear to bring you..drumroll please…. The Serene Dominic Show v 2.0!! Our 5 minute vidcasts will give national…
Editor’s note: We barely knew what we were getting into when we sent Serene Dominic to interview BroLoaf — but we damn sure ended up with more of it than could fit in our paper. So, for your high-fiving, beer-ponging pleasure, here’s Serene’s extended interview with BroLoaf. I can practically…
When bands choose an opening act to warm up their minions, they’re thinking only about getting some rookies onstage to basically test the electricity in the building while they quietly snort blow backstage. But if they aren’t thinking at all, they pick an opening act like BroLoaf, the “Michael Jordan…
When Jimi Hendrix reinvented the guitar instrumental as we know it with “Third Stone from the Sun,” he took time out to make a PSA warning that stated: “You’ll never hear surf music again.” In 1967, the sounds of 1961 and, even, 1964 seemed a century removed. But if surf…
Of all the Rock and Roll Hall’s glaring omissions, it’s hard to beat the institution’s blind eye toward the “Wizard of Osmond” himself. When The Osmonds abandoned their barbershop quartet revival campaign and recorded “One Bad Apple,” a song that Motown had rejected for the Jackson 5, it ended the…
This weekend, 93.3 KDKB, the “Sixth Longest-Running FM Rock Station in Nation,” enters into its fourth decade of existence with a Saturday, August 13 celebratory performance by The Tubes at Foundry on First, one of the countless bands that got its first big radio boost on the heritage rock station…
It might not pack the same mental hot flash as having Tom Jones ask you “What’s New Pussycat?” or Chubby Checker requesting your help twisting something, but having Fee Waybill, lead singer of The Tubes, tell you in so many words he may have to “Talk to Ya Later” comes…
Tristan Jemsek is not a rock star, nor does he want to be. Sure, some people know him as a member of local polka-punk band Haunted Cologne and as the bass player for raucous blues-punk rocker Ray Reeves, and Jemsek’s new band, Dogbreth, is already signed to an indie label…
If you’ve been picking daisy petals all these years, wondering whether to assign your devotion to this black-and-white-clad band of renown, now is probably a good time to pucker up. With the release of this year’s disc The Demon and the Devotee, The Love Me Nots have pushed beyond the…
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 oughta sign a petition to get Graham Nash inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. What’s that, you say? Nash…
Judging by the malevolently eager look on his face, whatever Dale Fox of Phoenix band World Class Thugs has been keeping in his trunk for the past six months promises to be good. It is. It’s three oversized masks of World Class Thugs singer Jocelyn Ruiz-Fox, blown up from a…
Because kids in 2007 aren’t buying CDs like kids of yesteryear did, retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, and Target are threatening to scale back their shelf space to stock only new releases from artists with proven sales. Not a big deal if you buy CDs on Amazon or iTunes, but…
