Austin Top 10s

Ninety lines of listicles about Austin music in 2015

Austin Top 10s

Neph Basedow

1) Moving Panoramas, One (Modern Outsider)

2) Abram Shook, Landscape Dream (Western Vinyl)

3) Cherubs, 2 Ynfynyty (Brutal Panda)

4) Spray Paint, Punters on a Barge (Homeless)

5) Joe Pug, Windfall (Lightning Rod)

6) We Jam by Condos (Monofonus Press)

7) Sleep Good, Dream Dealer (Blackland Hall)

8) Sweet Talk, Double Perfect (12XU)

9) Spray Paint, Dopers (Monofonus Press)

10) Ghetto Ghouls, Collisions (Monofonus Press)




Austin Top 10s

Greg Beets

1) We Jam by Condos (Monofonus Press)

2) Cherubs, 2 Ynfynyty (Brutal Panda)

3) Grupo Fantasma, Problemas (Blue Corn)

4) Israel Nash, Silver Season (Loose Music)

5) Opposite Day, Space Taste Race Part 2 (Future Banana Replacement)

6) Ghetto Ghouls, Collisions (Monofonus Press)

7) Charlie Pierce & Choctaw Wildfire, Nowhere (Young Cubs)

8) Total Abuse, Excluded (Deranged)

9) Greenbeard, Stoned at the Throne (Sailor)

10) Pataphysics, My Phone's About to Die (Pecan Crazy)




Austin Top 10s

Jim Caligiuri

1) James McMurtry, Complicated Game (Complicated Game)

2) Bright Light Social Hour, Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)

3) Uncle Lucius, The Light (Boo Clap)

4) Joe Ely, Panhandle Rambler (Rack 'Em)

5) Mike Flanigin, The Drifter (Black Betty)

6) Christy Hays, O' Montana

7) Asleep at the Wheel, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys (Bismeaux)

8) Leon Bridges, Coming Home (Columbia)

9) Dale Watson, Call Me Insane (Ameripolitan)

10) Wood & Wire, The Coast




Austin Top 10s

Thomas Fawcett

1) Kiko Villamizar, La Remolacha (Discos Peligrosa)

2) Gary Clark Jr., The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Bros.)

3) Bright Light Social Hour, Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)

4) Max Frost, Intoxication (Atlantic)

5) LNS Crew, Vol. 2

6) James McMurtry, Complicated Game (Complicated Game)

7) Grupo Fantasma, Problemas (Blue Corn)

8) Malik, The Principium

9) Alesia Lani, First Impression (Keyzstreet Music)

10) Sweet Spirit, Cokomo (Nine Mile)




Doug Freeman

1) James McMurtry, Complicated Game (Complicated Game)

2) Crooks, Wildfire (Seafoam)

3) Heartless Bastards, Restless Ones (Partisan)

4) Shinyribs, Okra Candy (Mustard Lid)

5) Carson McHone, Goodluck Man (Good Horse)

6) Jonathan Terrell, Past the Lights of Town (Candy Bang)

7) East Cameron Folkcore, Kingdom of Fear (Nine Mile)

8) Moving Panoramas, One (Modern Outsider)

9) Mike & the Moonpies, Mockingbird

10) Wild Child, Fools (Dualtone)




Abby Johnston

1) Patty Griffin, Servant of Love (Thirty Tigers)

2) Kinky Friedman, The Loneliest Man I Ever Met (Avenue A/Thirty Tigers)

3) Mother Falcon, Good Luck Have Fun (Universal Music Classics)

4) Shinyribs, Okra Candy (Mustard Lid)

5) Wild Child, Fools (Dualtone)

6) Quiet Company, Transgressor (Modern Outsider)

7) Grape St., Wallpaper (Burger)

8) Bright Light Social Hour, Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)

9) Crooks, Wildfire (Seafoam)

10) Boan, Mentiras (Holodeck)




Austin Top 10s

Tim Stegall

1) The Chumps, ... Gimme Headache (Super Secret)

2) OBN IIIs, Worth a Lot of Money (12XU)

3) Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, Django & Jimmie (Legacy)

4) Sweet Talk, Double Perfect (12XU)

5) Mike Flanigin, The Drifter (Black Betty)

6) Eve Monsees & the Exiles, You Know She Did (Serpent)

7) Animal Train, Savage Enraged (Podunk)

8) Linda Gail Lewis, Hard Rockin' Woman (Lanark)

9) Hex Dispensers, III (Alien Snatch!)

10) Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Squelch (Proud Souls Entertainment)




Michael Toland

1) The Happen-Ins, Glamour Shots (Fuzz Recordings)

2) Gary Clark Jr., The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Bros.)

3) Obscured by Echoes, Avidonia Pt. 1: The Escape

4) Grupo Fantasma, Problemas (Blue Corn)

5) The Grassy Knoll, Electric Verdeland Vol. 1 (Electric Verde)

6) Eve Monsees & the Exiles, You Know She Did (Serpent)

7) Mala Suerte, Rituals of Self-Destruction (Illwill)

8) City of Ships, Ultraluminal (Translation Loss)

9) Knest, Honorary Bachelors of Arts (Self Sabotage)

10) I Am the Albatross, Lonesome Son (Rail Rider)




Austin Top 10s

Jay Trachtenberg

1) Grupo Fantasma, Problemas (Blue Corn)

2) Pete Rodriguez, El Conde Negro (Destiny)

3) Texas Horns, Blues Gotta Holda Me (Vizztone)

4) Bright Light Social Hour, Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss)

5) El Tule, Cuatro (Rudymusic)

6) David Ramirez, Fables (Thirty Tigers)

7) Patty Griffin, Servant of Love (Thirty Tigers)

8) Gary Clark Jr., The Story of Sonny Boy Slim (Warner Bros.)

9) Moving Panoramas, One (Modern Outsider)

10) Charlie Belle, Get to Know – I Don't Want to Be Alone (Fanatic)

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