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Greg Beets, Jim Caligiuri, Michael Chamy, Matt Dentler, Robert Gabriel, Melanie Haupt, Raoul Hernandez, Andy Langer, David Lynch, Margaret Moser, Jerry Renshaw and Jay Trachtenberg
2) Mojave 3, Spoon and Rafter (4AD)
3) The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (Sub Pop)
4) Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell (Interscope)
5) Belle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress (Rough Trade)
6) Death Cab for Cutie, Transatlanticism (Barsuk)
7) Crooked Fingers, Red Devil Dawn (Merge)
8) Grandaddy, Sumday (V2)
9) Radiohead, Hail to the Thief (Capitol)
10) June Carter Cash, Wildwood Flower (Dualtone)
This article appears in 2003.
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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. More by Greg Beets
San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993. More by Raoul Hernandez