Peaches Credit: Photo by David Brendan Hall

Best Roadshow

Neph Basedow: L7, Fun Fun Fun Fest

Greg Beets: Peaches, Fun Fun Fun Fest

Jim Caligiuri: Stevie Wonder, Frank Erwin Center

Thomas Fawcett: Kendrick Lamar, ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Doug Freeman: Kendrick Lamar, ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Abby Johnston: Pokey LaFarge, Parish

Kahron Spearman: Miguel, Emo’s

Tim Stegall: The Sonics, Red 7

Michael Toland: Tanya Tagaq, South by Southwest

Jay Trachtenberg: Kate Tempest, South by Southwest


Best Local Show

Basedow: Mirror Travel, Parish

Beets: Moonlight Towers, Hole in the Wall

Caligiuri: Golden Dawn Arkestra, Happen-Ins, Cheer Up Charlies

Fawcett: RAS Day, Kenny Dorham’s Backyard

Freeman: Okkervil River, Cactus Cafe

Hernandez: 13th Floor Elevators, Levitation

Johnston: Danny Malone, Holy Mountain

Spearman: Bone, Fur & Feathers, Lamberts

Toland: Tameca Jones, ACL Fest

Trachtenberg: Louis Black’s 65th Birthday, Palm Door on Sixth


Local Act You Saw the Most

Basedow: Flesh Lights

Beets: Pocket Fishrmen

Caligiuri: Charlie Faye

Fawcett: Money Chicha

Freeman: East Cameron Folkcore

Johnston: Shakey Graves

Spearman: Bone, Fur & Feathers

Stegall: Riverside Riot

Toland: Happen-Ins

Trachtenberg: Denny Freeman


Local Venue You Visited the Most

Basedow: Mohawk

Beets: Hole in the Wall

Caligiuri: Strange Brew

Fawcett: ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Freeman: ABGB

Hernandez: Red 7

Johnston: ACL Live at the Moody Theater

Spearman: Emo’s

Toland: Red 7

Trachtenberg: ACL Live at the Moody Theater


Best Local Residency

Beets: Mike Stinson, Little Longhorn Saloon

Caligiuri: Church on Monday, Continental Club Gallery

Fawcett: Conjunto Los Pinkys, White Horse

Freeman: Durawa, Strange Brew

Hernandez: Sunny Sweeney & Brennen Leigh, Saxon Pub

Johnston: Margaret Wright, Skylark Lounge

Spearman: Margaret Wright, Skylark Lounge

Toland: Church on Monday, Continental Club Gallery

Trachtenberg: Church on Monday, Continental Club Gallery


Best New Local Act

Basedow: Moving Panoramas

Beets: Sailor Poon

Caligiuri: Jaimee Harris

Fawcett: Charlie Belle

Freeman: Charlie Pierce & Choctaw Wildfire

Johnston: Stiletto Feels

Spearman: Malik

Stegall: Equinox

Toland: Knest

Trachtenberg: Imperial Starlighters


R.I.P.

Davy Jones Credit: Photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Bill Arhos, Bob Belden, Michael Brown, Sonya Cohen, Ornette Coleman, Don Covay, Jack Ely, Buddy Emmons, Wilton Felder, Kim Fowley, Andy Fraser, Johnny Gimble, Lesley Gore, Dave Hermann, Holy Mountain, Smokey Johnson, Bob Johnston, Davy Jones, Orrin Keepnews, BB King, Ben E. King, Joe B. Mauldin, Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister, Bryn Merrick, Leonard Nimoy, Sean Price, John Renbourn, Slim Richey, Cynthia Robinson, Chris Squire, P.F. Sloan, Percy Sledge, T Bird & the Breaks, Dallas Taylor, Phil Taylor, Clark Terry, Allen Toussaint, Scott Weiland, Reverend Gean West, Thom Wilson

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.

Kahron Spearman is a journalist and writer with bylines including The Austin Chronicle, Austin Monthly, Consequence of Sound, Texas Highways, and the London-based journal The Break-Down. He currently serves as Senior Editor at Atmosphere TV.

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.