Get Big With Dorrough On The Set of His New Music Video

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,…

Watch: B-Hamp — “Fooly”

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…

Watch: Neon Indian — “6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)”

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…

Watch: Dondria — “Shawty Wus Up”

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…

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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…

Founding Big Star Bassist Andy Hummel Dies At Weatherford Home

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…

Night Moves No. 2: Tattoos and Hard Rock at DOMAXXII

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…

Top 20 Stage Faces at The Dallas Observer Music Awards Showcase

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…