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)



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)



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



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)



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)



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)

This article appears in 2015.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.

Thomas Fawcett has been freelancing for The Austin Chronicle since 2007. He likes good music and does not fake the funk.

Doug Freeman has been writing for the Austin Chronicle since 2007, covering the arts and music scene in the city. He is originally from Virginia and earned his Masters Degree from the University of Texas. He is also co-editor of The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology, published by UT Press.

Tim Stegall contributed to The Austin Chronicle 1991-1995, and was a staff writer 1995-1997. He returned as a contributor in 2013. He has also freelanced for publications ranging from Flipside to Alternative Press to Guitar World. He plays punk rock guitar and sings in the Hormones.

Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.