National Public Radio has honored Sarah Jaffe twice in the past already, having named her songs “Clementine” and “Even Born Again” as songs of the day both this year and in 2008, respectively. Well, now comes even more of a spotlight from the nasally voiced set, with Jaffe having been…
Dorwin Demarcus Dorrough, the Dallas rapper known as Dorrough, who gracefully explained to us the allure of his national hit, “Ice Cream Paint Job,” in 2009, is set to drop his pretty highly anticipated sophomore album, Get Big, sometime this year. The title track and single from the new album,…
Dallas native B-Hamp took the South by storm last year with his still-hard-to-believe, Will Ferrell-inspired dance craze, “Do the Ricky Bobby.” Despite the awkward inspiration, the people heard and obeyed. Requests for the track popped up all over the nation, and, in turn, it posted B-Hamp on the hip-hop charts…
Darryl Smyers–as you can quite literally see–spoke with Vinnie Paul Abbott on Sunday night about the new HELLYEAH record and about next weekend’s Ride for Dime charity event, which is held in honor of Abbott’s brother, “Dimebag” Darrell.But what Vinnie Paul conveniently left out of that talk, it seems, is…
Looks like the Dentonites in Neon Indian are back with another weird original video. This time, it’s a stop-motion piece, created by multimedia artist Joao Machado. Unlike their previous video, though, this one is not sponsored by Mountain Dew. But it’s equally trippy. Here’s the gist of it: A two-legged…
As promised, local R&B chanteuse Dondria has just released the video for her second single “Shawty Wus Up,” featuring Johnta Austin and Diamond, from her upcoming Dondria vs. Phatfffat release. We showed you an intro to the new album two weeks ago now, with commentary from the singer, as well…
We’ve got quite a backlog of CDs we’ve never gotten around to, so we’re going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.We Are Scientists…
Andy Hummel, founding bassist of Big Star, longtime employee of Lockheed Martin and Weatherford resident, died yesterday at age 59. His death, after two years of cancer treatment, comes four months after the death of Big Star singer Alex Chilton turned a South By Southwest panel discussion and subsequent performance–it…
Your daily dose of national music news for Tuesday, July 20, 2010…Metallica now thinks that the movie that let us in on it’s completely dysfunctional life as a band was a big mistake. So was razzing Jason Newsted until he left the band, but, whatevs.Diplo doesn’t pull any punches when…
As Warbeast, Akkolyte and others had their way with Reno’s Chop Shop Saloon on Saturday night, those of us sardine-packed and sweating inside La Grange caught Glen Farris, The Naptime Shake, The O’s, Boys Named Sue, The Fox & The Bird and Seryn.For sheer boil-your-mercury heat, though, nothing compared to…
HELLYEAH! CD ReleaseThe ClubhouseJuly 18, 2010Better than: being mugged. Maybe. As I drove into the barren wasteland that is known as West Dallas, I knew the night was going to be an adventure. Certainly, a metal band is probably the only act that could get away with having a CD…
Last Wednesday night, our own Nick Rallo ventured out to Fort Worth (in rush-hour mind you) to see Dawes and Telegraph Canyon at Casa Mañana, and he came back with rave reviews. Seems the show was also attended by our video-savvy friends at WeDentonDoIt.com, who we kinda, sorta wrote about…
In the “Wikipedia Files” video series, the above episode of which was shot at this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, various bands are questioned about information found on their Wikipedia pages. It’s a pretty interesting project from the Chicago radio station, WBEW-89.5 FM Vocalo, and this most recent take…
So, we have a lot of photos of DOMAXXII. We want to show you all of them. Somewhere in between the heat and The Cool Kids were the performances at The Bone and Reno’s Chop Shop Saloon, featuring bands VIDEO, Phuss, Nervous Curtains, Spector 45, The Backsliders, Bad Sports, Dear…
Warning: This is not an official Dallas Observer Music Award. If it was, we might break it down into something like–Best Grimace, Best Contortion, Best Scream, Best “Stage Dump.” But that’s not what we’re not doing. No, we’re gonna countdown, without preference or bias, our favorite “stage faces” of the…
If it seemed like The Secret Machines were more than comfortable playing the outdoor stage at the DOMAXXII Showcase on Saturday, well, there’s a good reason for that. It’s not really a secret around town that the New York-based act got its start in right here in Dallas, or that…
Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter extraordinaire and frontman for the Old 97’s, made a TV appearance last night as a legless, prosthetic-armed Al Queda member. No, really. The creators of Squidbillies, the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim staple about Appalachian squids, gathered folk rock’s best and brightest for their season finale entitled “America: Why…
If you’ve ever wondered what it’d be like to walk a day in rock star shoes, the folks at Alternative Press have you covered. As part of their “Warped Speed” Vans Warped Tour coverage, the magazine gave us less-famous folk a look at just that, following around Grapevine’s Own hook-heavy…
Your daily dose of national music news for Monday, July 19, 2010…Pink was hurt during an acrobatic portion of her show in Germany.Creed promises/threatens releasing a new song this summer. Devo has taken to the web with their own reality show…
The Secret Machines7:15 p.m.Outdoor Stage The sun had long since baked Deep Ellum’s concrete into a considerable second source of heat by the time the Secret Machines graced the outdoor stage at the DOMAXXII Showcase on Saturday. Knowing this and, like their counterparts on this stage, quick to point it…
The Cool KidsOutdoor Stage8:30 p.m. As the stage was getting broken down from The Secret Machines’ set and set up for The Cool Kids, it looked like the Texas heat had gotten to the Deep Ellum crowd. There was hardly anyone in the parking lot that was hosting the outdoor…
Akkolyte Reno’s Chop Shop Saloon9 p.m.Akkolyte–brothers Aaron and Stefan Gonzalez–delivered their ususal thundering performance grindcore/punk at this year’s DOMAXXII. Aaron wields the bass while Stefan mans the drums. Both thrash away in pure melodic thrash. Both shine with insane virtuosity. Both lash out lyrics with fervor and grit. Stefan’s bellowing…
