Dogstar Members, Reunited After Two Decades, on Whether Their Summery Comeback Single Marks a Departure: ‘We Were Never a Grunge Band’
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Deathstars can be temporal things, but a Dogstar, maybe that’s forever.
That is the lesson the rock world can learn after the reemergence of the trio of that name after a mere 23-year layoff. There might have been a reasonable assumption in the interim that maybe the group was a hobby that its most famous member, bassist Keanu Reeves, got over as his other gig just grew and grew.
But he, guitarist-vocalist Bret Domrose and drummer Rob Mailhouse never considered Doghouse officially extinguished, and now, they are picking up about where they left off. (Which was 2000, as records go, or 2002, when they last reformed to play a few select gigs in Japan, a market that had particularly cottoned to the group in its heyday.) The reunited trio’s first single and video back, “Everything Turns Around,” came out earlier in July, to be followed by a full album on the group’s own Dillon Street Records, “Somewhere Between the Power Lines and Palm Trees,” on Oct.
6. A couple of one-off gigs Dogstar already did at the Roxy and the BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley were teasers for a 29-tour that will start with another L.A.-area show on Aug.
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