DESCRIPTION:
Vocalist and guitarist, Dereck Blackman, guitarist, keys and trombone, John Mcknight, bassist Kevin Smith, and drummer Josh energy, Power Pop band called Dominion Status with a distinctive CD, The Blame Game, Dominion Status was nominated in the Orange County Music Awards reviews in Scratch Magazine, Surfing Magazine, OC Weekly and Mean Street Magazine.

The House of Blues, The Hard Rock Cafe, The Tiki Bar, The Observatory Ska, Reggae and Rock music while sharing the stage with well-known acts such as, Third Word, Eek A Mouse, Fishbone, Yellowman, Barrington Levy, The Late, Dave Carridene, Wayne Wonder and Pato Banton.

strive onto the next. Now new and revived, they are under the name of, Elu The Dust. The name came from a dream that Dereck’s brother, Haile, had of a stranger who promised to reveal the secrets of life and the universe; the stranger kept admonishing him to never forget his name and repeated "Elu The Dust" over and over. The band, living their dreams, found the name to be justified.