Texas Top 10s

Local Top 10s of 2006

Greg Beets

Texas Top 10s

1) The Black Angels, Passover (Light in the Attic)

2) Brothers & Sisters (Calla Lilly)

3) Cat Scientist, Cicada (Australian Cattle God)

4) Glass Eye, Every Woman's Fantasy (RexyRex)

5) The Arm, Call You Out (Indierect)

6) Masonic, Without Warning

7) Riverboat Gamblers, To the Confusion of Our Enemies (Volcom)

8) The Sword, Age of Winters (Kemado)

9) Darling New Neighbors, Every Day Is Saturday Night (I Eat Records)

10) The Service Industry, Ranch Is the New French (Buildgut)


Jim Caligiuri

Texas Top 10s

1) Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way (Sony)

2) Grupo Fantasma, Comes Alive (Aire Sol)

3) Butch Hancock, War and Peace (Two Roads)

4) James Hand, The Truth Will Set You Free (Rounder)

5) Band of Heathens, Live From Momo's (Fat Caddy)

6) Southpaw Jones, Bedroom Demos Vol. 1: Zero Demand

7) Willie Nelson, You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)

8) Bruce Robison, Eleven Stories (Sustain)

9) Sir Douglas Quintet, Live From Austin TX (New West)

10) Dale Watson, Whiskey or God (Palo Duro)


Robert Gabriel

Texas Top 10s

1) Trae, Restless (Asylum)

2) Ryno, They Call Me No (On the Line)

3) Nac & DJ Grip, Swagaristic Nac (Carnival Beats)

4) VIP, Welcome to Tha Ground Under (Nina Ross)

5) Chalie Boy & Rapid Ric, The Versatyle Child (Dirty 3rd)

6) Hood Soul & DJ Grip, Got That Hood Soul (Hood Soul)

7) Z-Ro, I'm Still Livin' (Rap-a-Lot)

8) Rapid Ric & the Whut It Dew Family, All Flows From Da Garage (Mixtape Mechanic)

9) Public Offenders & Da 2-3 Mic Breakaz, All Black (New Generation of Kings)

10) Magno & Rapid Ric, City Boyz (Wildlife)


Melanie Haupt

Texas Top 10s

1) What Made Milwaukee Famous, Trying to Never Catch Up (Barsuk)

2) Scott H. Biram, Graveyard Shift (Bloodshot)

3) Sara Hickman, Motherlode (Sleeveless)

4) Sound Team, Movie Monster (Capitol)

5) Voxtrot, Your Biggest Fan (PlayLouder)

6) Pink Nasty, Mold the Gold

7) Shawn Colvin, These Four Walls (Nonesuch)

8) Lemurs (Ramble Lane)

9) Idgy Vaughn, Origin Story

10) Brothers & Sisters (Calla Lilly)


Andy Langer

Texas Top 10s

1) Jon Dee Graham, Full (Freedom)

2) Bruce Robison, Eleven Stories (Sustain)

3) Ghostland Observatory, Paparazzi Lightning (Trashy Moped)

4) KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 14 (KGSR)

5) Tacks, the Boy Disaster, Oh, Beatrice

6) Jack Ingram, Live Wherever You Are (Big Machine)

7) Willie Nelson, You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway)

8) The Black Angels, Passover (Light in the Attic)

9) ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, So Divided (Interscope)

10) Lemurs (Ramble Lane)


David Lynch

Texas Top 10s

1) The New Orleans Social Club, Sing Me Back Home (Burgundy)

2) Grupo Fantasma, Comes Alive (Aire Sol)

3) Charanga Cakewalk, Chicano Zen (Artemis)

4) Gnappy, Unloaded (Bean Pie)

5) Elias Haslanger, Dream Story (Cherrywood)

6) Neil Blumofe, Piety and Desire (Horeb)

7) White Ghost Shivers, Live on the Radio (Chicken Ranch)

8) Maneki Neko, Auracle (Stray Pointer)

9) The Always Already (Complicate Everything)

10) David Israel, These Are the Clothes We'll Wear When We're Old (Soda Pop Sounds)


Margaret Moser

Texas Top 10s

1) Idgy Vaughn, Origin Story

2) Alejandro Escovedo, The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)

3) Charlie Sexton & Shannon McNally, Southside Sessions (Back Porch)

4) Carrie Rodriguez, Seven Angels on a Bicycle (Back Porch)

5) The Texas Sapphires, Valley So Steep (Lowe Farm)

6) Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake Farm (Sustain)

7) Jon Dee Graham, Full (Freedom)

8) Sara Hickman, Motherlode (Sleeveless)

9) Hickoids, Corn Demon (Saustex)

10) Bob Schneider, The Californian (Vanguard/Shockarama)


Austin Powell

Texas Top 10s

1) Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)

2) Golden Bear (C-Side)

3) Scott H. Biram, Graveyard Shift (Bloodshot)

4) The Black Angels, Passover (Light in the Attic)

5) The Channel, Tales From the Two Hill Heart/Sibylline Machine (C-Side)

6) Micah P. Hinson, Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit (Jade Tree)

7) Peter & the Wolf, Lightness (The Worker's Institute)

8) Shearwater, Palo Santo (Misra)

9) Ghostland Observatory, Paparazzi Lightning (Trashy Moped)

10) The Sword, Age of Winters (Kemado)


Darcie Stevens

Texas Top 10s

1) Voxtrot, Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives (Cult Hero)

2) I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, Fear Is on Our Side (Secretly Canadian)

3) Midlake, The Trials of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)

4) The Sword, Age of Winters (Kemado)

5) ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, So Divided (Interscope)

6) Sound Team, Movie Monster (Capitol)

7) The Channel, Tales From the Two Hill Heart/Sibylline Machine (C-Side)

8) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Snacks (Emperor Jones)

9) Tacks, the Boy Disaster, Oh, Beatrice

10) Nervous Exits, Get Out (Super Secret)


Jay Trachtenberg

Texas Top 10s

1) Neil Blumofe, Piety and Desire (Horeb)

2) Charanga Cakewalk, Chicano Zen (Artemis)

3) David Chenu Quintet, Two

4) Suzanna Choffel, Shudders & Rings

5) Alejandro Escovedo, The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)

6) Jon Dee Graham, Full (Freedom)

7) Grupo Fantasma, Comes Alive (Aire Sol)

8) Elias Haslanger, Dream Story (Cherrywood)

9) Carrie Rodriguez, Seven Angels on a Bicycle (Back Porch)

10) Pete Rodriguez, Mind Trip

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