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2010-2011Best Performing Bands

Best Blues/Soul/Funk
Los Lonely Boys

Los Lonely Boys (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

Carolyn Wonderland
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Soul Track Mind
Eric Tessmer
Pinetop Perkins
The Scabs
Jimmie Vaughan
T Bird & the Breaks
Peterson Brothers Band

Best Country/Bluegrass
Los Texas Wranglers

Sahara Smith
Heybale!
Asleep at the Wheel
Texas Bluegrass Massacre
Reckless Kelly
Dale Watson
Willie Nelson
Ruby Jane
Tony Harrison & Hot Texas

Best Cover Band
The Eggmen

Cover Girl
Mysterious Ways
The Frank Gomez Band
Skyrocket
Guilty Pleasures
Magnifico
Think Lizzy
Hell's Belles
Paradise Titty

Best Experimental
The Octopus Project

Ghostland Observatory
One-Eyed Doll
More Cowbell
John Pointer
Opposite Day
The Weird Weeds
Sheer Khan & the Space Case
Zorch
The Floating Opera Orchestra

Best Folk
Sahara Smith

Sahara Smith (photo by Jana Birchum)

Matt the Electrician
BettySoo
Cowboy & Indian
Marmalakes
Jennifer Ellen Cook
James McMurtry
Sarah Jarosz
Bob Livingston
John Dunn

Best Hip-Hop/DJ
Phranchyze

Phranchyze (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

Trampia
MC Overlord
Zeale
Lady & the Amp
Andrew Parsons
Texas Battle League
Scorpio Rising
DJ Chicken George
Drastik

Best Indie
Speak

Speak (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

Okkervil River
The Bright Light Social Hour
Quiet Company
Mother Falcon
One-Eyed Doll
Los A-T Boyz
Saints of Valory
The Shears
Marmalakes

Best Industrial/Goth
One-Eyed Doll

One-Eyed Doll (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

Lucid Dementia
Scorpio Rising
Exit
Missions
Art Versus Industry
Subnatural
Skatenigs
Babydick
Hipnautica

Best Instrumental
Eric Johnson

Balmorhea
Ugly Elephant
Los Texas Wranglers
16 Strings
Descendants of Erdrick
A Is Red
3 Balls of Fire
McLemore Avenue
Explosions in the Sky

Best Jazz
Jeff Lofton

Jeff Lofton (photo by Jana Birchum)

The Jitterbug Vipers
Elias Haslanger
Kat Edmonson
Elizabeth McQueen
White Ghost Shivers
Ephraim Owens
David Box Quartet
A Is Red
Tony Harrison & Hot Texas

Best Latin Rock
Los Lonely Boys

Vitera
Grupo Fantasma
Vallejo
Texas Tornados
Patricia Vonne
La Guerrilla
Maneja Beto
Boca Abajo
Hector Ward & the Big Time

Best Latin Traditional
Tortilla Factory

Tortilla Factory’s Alfredo Guerrero Jr. (photo by Jana Birchum)

Los Texas Wranglers
El Tule
Grupo Fantasma
Brownout
Del Castillo
Austin Samba School
Cienfuegos
Joel Guzman & Sarah Fox
Trio Los Vigilantes

Best Metal
The Sword

One-Eyed Doll
Powderburn
Dead Earth Politics
Hell's Black Intelligencer
Snake Skin Prison
Critical Assembly
Broken Teeth
Baron Grod
Lucid Dementia

Best None of the Above
Mother Falcon

Conjunto Los T-Birds
Girl Guitar
White Ghost Shivers
Charles Thibodeaux & the Austin Cajun Aces
John Pointer
Trio Del Rio
The Tiny Tin Hearts
Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat
More Cowbell

Best Punk
One-Eyed Doll

Squint
The Midgetmen
Krum Bums
Adrian & the Sickness
Riverboat Gamblers
Opposite Day
Neon Cobra
The Stampede
Critical Assembly

Best Rock
Los Lonely Boys

The Bright Light Social Hour
Quiet Company
Okkervil River
One-Eyed Doll
Spoon
Saints of Valory
Vitera
The Mother Truckers
The Black Angels

Best Roots Rock
Roky Erickson

Roky Erickson (photo by Jana Birchum)

Reckless Kelly
7 Walkers
Deadman
Carolyn Wonderland
Sahara Smith
Band of Heathens
The Mother Truckers
The Gourds
Stonehoney

Best U-18
Schmillion

Schmillion (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

South of Center
Rockstella
Residual Kid
AfterMath
Hell's Black Intelligencer
24-7
Carson Brock Band
Peterson Brothers Band
Electric Society

Best World Music
Atash

Firoozi of Atash (photo by Todd V. Wolfson)

The Nash Hernandez Orchestra
Austin Piazzolla Quintet
El Tule
Rattletree Marimba
The Tea Merchants
Charles Thibodeaux & the Austin Cajun Aces
Sangreet Millennium Ensemble
Hard Proof
Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami

Best Texas Recordings
Best Austin Musicians
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