And The Nominees For The 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards Are…

Welcome to Thunderdome. The 2012 Dallas Observer Music Awards poll is now live, and you can go right here and do what America does best: vote on their computer. Or you could go “old school” and find a paper ballot, like the one in this week’s issue, then bring it to our November 10 showcase in Deep Ellum, which will feature more than 40 bands in venues like LaGrange, Dada and Trees. Oh, you can buy tickets for that right here. See how easy democracy is?

Peruse the list of nominees, won’t you? Over the next few weeks, you’ll be getting to know them more… intimately.

See also: – The 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards winners

Best Group Act A.Dd+ The Blurries Mind Spiders Oil Boom Quaker City Night Hawks Warren Jackson Hearne & Le Leek Electrique

Best Solo Act Jessie Frye New Fumes Ronnie Fauss Ryan Thomas Becker Sarah Jaffe Tiger Darrow

Best Album Daniel Hart, The Orientalist John Singer Sergeant, self-titled Mind Spiders, Meltdown Nervous Curtains, Fake Infinity Pinkish Black, self-titled Sarah Jaffe, The Body Wins

Best Song A.Dd+, “Shit Got Crazy” The Colurs, “Easy To Love” Daniel Hart, “O Sangeeta” Mind Spiders, “Wait For Us” Oil Boom, “The Great American Shakedown”

Best New Act Blackstone Rangers The Colurs Joseph SoMo Tony Ferraro & the Satans of Soft Rock Year of the Bear Zhora

Best Blues Act Aaron Burton Hunter Hendrickson Band Jason Elmore Rev. KM Williams Smokin’ Joe Kubek and Bnois King

Best Country Act Grant Jones & the Pistol Grip Lassos Jerrod Medulla Michael Donner & the Southern Renaissance Somebody’s Darling The King Bucks

Best Americana/Roots Act J. Charles & the Trainrobbers Danny Rush & the Designated Drivers Josh Weathers Telegraph Canyon The O’s Boxcar Bandits

Best Electronic Act Black Market Pharmacy Blixaboy Cutter Datahowler Mystery Skulls Vulgar Fashion

Best Experimental Act Diamond Age Eyes, Wings & Many Other Things New Fumes Shiny Around the Edges Summer of Glaciers

Best Punk Act The Atomic Tanlines The Black Dotz Fungi Girls Mind Spiders The Phuss War Party

Best Hardcore Act Big Fiction Kill the Client Power Trip Wiccans Wild//Tribe

Best Metal Act Akkolyte Bludded Head Maleveller Pinkish Black Terminator 2 Warbeast

Best Rock Act Bad Design The Breakfast Machine The Cush Quaker City Night Hawks The Roomsounds RTB2

Best Pop Act Blackstone Rangers Burning Hotels The Colurs Salim Nourallah & the Treefort 5 Smile Smile Zhora

Best Folk Act Clint Niosi Hares on the Mountain Jacob Metcalf Ronnie Fauss Vanessa Peters

Best Funk/R&B Act The Cannabinoids Ducado Vega The Gritz The Relatives Sore Losers

Best Rap/Hip-Hop Act A.Dd+ Dustin Cavazos Mohicans Playdough Snow Tha Product Tum Tum

Best Jazz Act Damon K. Clark Mora Collective Shelley Carrol Tatiana Mayfield Yells At Eels

Best DJ Sober Tape Mastah Steph Track Meet Wanz Dover Yeahdef

Best Mixtape Brain Gang Blue, Numb Dorrough, Highlights Joseph SoMo, My Life Leon the Professional, (B)east Snow Tha Product, Unorthodox

Best Latin/Tejano Act Conjunto Baraja de Oro Latin Express Lily Vasquez Mariachi Los Unicos de Greiner Mariachi Quetzal

Best None of the Above Curvette Derwooka Hentai Improvising Orchestra Home By Hovercraft My Wooden Leg The Tidbits

Best Male Vocalist Clint Niosi Daniel Hart Daron Beck (Pinkish Black) Sam Anderson (Quaker City Night Hawks) Warren Jackson Hearne (Le Leek Electrique)

Best Female Vocalist Amber Farris (Somebody’s Darling) Jenny Seman (Shiny Around the Edges) Sarah Jaffe Sarah Sellers Taylor Rea (Zhora)

Best Instrumentalist Hunter Hendrickson, guitar (Hunter Hendrickson Band) Jon Teague, drums (Pinkish Black) Mike Forbes, saxophone (Shiny Around the Edges) Petra Kelly, violin (Hares on the Mountain) Sean Kirkpatrick, piano (Nervous Curtains)

Best Cover Band The Gorehounds Le Cure Not Fugazi The Rich Girls Holt & Stockslager Stoogeaphilia

Best Label Dallas Distortion Music Good Recordings Gutterth Records Idol Records Kirtland Records Pour Le Corps

Best Producer Britt Robisheaux John Congleton Matthew Barnhart Picnictyme Salim Nourallah Stuart Sikes

Best Venue The Granada Theater Sons of Hermann Hall The Kessler Theater Trees House of Blues Rubber Gloves

Best Talent Buyer The Granada Theater The Kessler Theater Parade of Flesh Scoremore Spune Productions Tactics Productions

Best Record Store Bill’s Records Doc’s Records Forever Young Good Records Mad World Records Top Ten Records

Best Radio Show The Good Show, KTCU 88.7 Infrequent Exposure, KNTU 88.1 The Local Edge, KDGE 102.1 The Paul Slavens Show, KXT 91.7 Sonic Assembly, KNON 89.3

Best Festival 35 Denton Bro Fest Fort Worth Music Festival Homegrown Music & Arts Festival KXT’s Summer Cut

Best New Venue Denton Square Donuts The Foundry It’ll Do Club The Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge Queen City Hall

Best Video The Blurries, “My Love Is a Fuse That Burns So Slowly” Brain Gang Blue, “Party On” Mind Spiders, “Wait For Us” Sarah Jaffe, “Glorified High” Summer of Glaciers, “Elevator”

Best Poster Artist/Screenprinter Magnificent Beard Nevada Hill Pan Ector Rigor Mortis Printing Co. Scott Spooner