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Serene Dominic

He's All Over the Place So You Don't Have to Be

About Me

He's performed as Serene Dominic, Vic Masters, The Human Torch, a rash of truly funny tribute band like Mutant Beatles Experiment, Dragon Attack (Queen) and Bluebird (Wings) as well as being a driving force behind Gullaballoo and Love Lounge for the past ten years in the greater or not so great Phoenix area. He's been called "The World's Most Maniacally Depressed Salloon Singer," "The Pitbull of Pop" and "The Schlub of Love." But you may call him "friend." Or "fiend" if you're not a good speller. In 2003 he wrote a book on Burt Bacharach and is currently working on several different books most notably 1967—The Last Year in Pop. There's hundreds of articles he's written for Phoenix New Times, MetroTimes, Creem and other weeklies you can link to from serenedominic.com, where he posts a new Cyber single free every Friday or whenever he feels like it, whichever comes first. Go there and feel like a real cyber pal!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/8/2005
Band Website: serenedominic.com
Band Members: • Serene Dominic & the Torchbearers: Serene, Tres Ikner, Kevin Pate & Christian Alvarez• Serene Dominic & Maricopa Beat Ensemble: Serene, Pat Singleton, Nick Pasco, Chris Doyle & Jim Speros• The Human Torch Cabaret: Serene Dominic & Jim Speros• Mutant Beatles Experiment: Serene, Pat Singleton, Nick Pasco, Chris Doyle and Jim Gerke• Love Lounge: with Mark David Chapman & Andrew Lockwood
Influences: Top 100 stuff from 1963-1975: Beatles, Burt Bacharach, Goffin-King, Kinks, Who, Stones, Joe Meek, Rascals, Lovin Spoonful, Linda Jones, Graham Gouldman, Hollies, James Brown, Holland-Dozier Holland. After that, favorite artists include Pixies, Elvis Costello, XTC, the Smiths & Morrissey, Bjork, Lindsey Buckingham, Gomez and The Shins.
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Bendi Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

What's On My Ipod Shuffle Today April 30, 2007

(Say) You're My Girl - Stereo! Roy Orbison1967 Coca-Cola Commercial 1 Los BravosAll The Rage Elvis Costello & Steve NieveAll You Need is Love (rough mix) BeatlesAs We Go Up We Go Down Guided By Voices...
Posted by Serene Dominic on Tue, 01 May 2007 01:59:00 PST

Runaway Diamonds on this week's IPOGLE!

This week's podcast Serene Dominic visits spotlight artistsChristopher Pomerenke and Gabe Hernandez of Runaway Diamonds (alsofeatured this week in a New Times story by Ed Masley). Chris and theever-re...
Posted by Serene Dominic on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

TEN SONGS FROM 1967 I HAD TO GRIT MY TEETH & BUY

Do butterfly collectors ever run across a butt ugly butterfly? One that stinks up their whole collection and hurts people's sensibilities? Maybe lepidopterists shunt that grizzly to the back of an oth...
Posted by Serene Dominic on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:05:00 PST

Why do I own every record by the Monkees?

In lieu of Rhino's 40th anniversary reissues of the first two Monkees albums, I know that this headline is no longer true but I suspect I'll shell out more moola for what will only amount to seven uni...
Posted by Serene Dominic on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 03:53:00 PST

1967-The Greatest Year in Pop?

I've told four people of my intension to collect up and write about every 45, every round, gifted and black 7-inch that entered the Billboard Top 100 in the year 1967, dump 'em into an ipod and listen...
Posted by Serene Dominic on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:27:00 PST