Greg Beets

1) Young Mothers, Morose (Self Sabotage)

2) Christeene, Basura (Fix My Dick)

3) Will Courtney, Crazy Love (Super Secret)

4) Exhalants (Self Sabotage)

5) Borzoi, A Prayer for War (12XU)

6) Sabbath Crow, Carrion Highway Weird Sun (Altercation)

7) Sungod, Wave Refraction (Holodeck)

8) Molly Burch, First Flower (Captured Tracks)

9) Idle Déclassé, Deathless,.. Born to Win (Kritics Choice)

10) Crack Pipes, Fake Eyelashes (Super Secret)

Thomas Fawcett

1) Abhi the Nomad, Marbled (Tommy Boy)

2) Adrian Quesada/Various Artists, Look at My Soul: The Latin Shade of Texas Soul (Nacional/Amazon Original)

3) Brownout, Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats)

4) Charley Crockett, Lonesome as a Shadow (Son of Davy)

5) Third Root, Trill Pedagogy: Summer Semester/Fall Semester

6) Curtis Roush, Cosmic Campfire Music (Modern Outsider)

7) Christeene, Basura (Fix My Dick)

8) Superfónicos, Suelta (Discos Fónicos)

9) Greyhounds, Cheyenne Valley Drive (Bud’s Recording Services)

10) Golden Dawn Arkestra, Children of the Sun (Nine Mile)

Raoul Hernandez

1) Charley Crockett, Lonesome as a Shadow (Son of Davy)

2) Brownout, Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats)

3) Shakey Graves, Can’t Wake Up (Dualtone)

4) Christy Hays, River Swimmer (Nine Mile)

5) Abhi the Nomad, Marbled (Tommy Boy)

6) Sungod, Wave Refraction (Holodeck)

7) Kinky Friedman, Circus of Life (Echo Hill)

8) Molly Burch, First Flower (Captured Tracks)

9) Portrayal of Guilt, Let Pain Be Your Guide (Gilead Media)

10) Songs of Life & Death: An Izzy Cox Tribute Album, Vol. I

Abby Johnston

1) Molly Burch, First Flower (Captured Tracks)

2) Brownout, Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats)

3) Hovvdy, Cranberry (Double Double Whammy)

4) Okkervil River, In the Rainbow Rain (ATO)

5) Mobley, Fresh Lies, Vol. I (Violent Films)

6) Shakey Graves, Can’t Wake Up (Dualtone)

7) White Denim, Performance (City Slang)

8) Erika Wennerstrom, Sweet Unknown (Partisan)

9) Golden Dawn Arkestra, Children of the Sun (Nine Mile)

10) Charley Crockett, Lonesome as a Shadow (Son of Davy)

Rachel Rascoe

1) Sun June, Years (Keeled Scales)

2) Molly Burch, First Flower (Captured Tracks)

3) Caroline Says, No Fool Like an Old Fool (Western Vinyl)

4) Hovvdy, Cranberry (Double Double Whammy)

5) Jess Williamson, Cosmic Wink (Mexican Summer)

6) White Denim, Performance (City Slang)

7) Mélat, Move Me II: The Present (Blackwhitegoldville)

8) RF Shannon, Trickster Blues (Cosmic Dreamer)

9) Batty Jr., Wormholes

10) Future Museums, Rosewater Ceremony (Holodeck)

Tim Stegall

1) Eric Hisaw Band, Street Lamp (Reservation Radio)

2) Sweethearts, Traces of Time (Eccentric Pop)

3) Sniper 66, Annihilator (Evacuate)

4) Willie Nelson, Last Man Standing (Legacy)

5) Alejandro Escovedo, The Crossing (Yep Roc)

6) Jesse Dayton, The Outsider (Blue Élan)

7) Crack Pipes, Fake Eyelashes (Super Secret)

8) Kathy & the Kilowatts, Premonition of Love (Nola Blue)

9) Uncle Pie Hole

10) Asleep at the Wheel, New Routes (Bismeaux/Thirty Tigers)

Michael Toland

1) Young Mothers, Morose (Self Sabotage)

2) Jon Lundbom Quartet, Live at Monks (MonksLive)

3) Chris Cogburn/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Bob Hoffnar/Henry Kaiser, En las Montañas de Excesos (Self Sabotage)

4) Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5, Before the World Beat You Down (Chicken Ranch)

5) Golden Dawn Arkestra, Children of the Sun (Nine Mile)

6) Autumn Fakes, A Sequence of Cheers for Cause and Effect

7) Exhalants (Self Sabotage)

8) Single Lash, Providence (Holodeck)

9) Bridge Farmers

10) Nori, Bruise Blood

Jay Trachtenberg

1) Brownout, Fear of a Brown Planet (Fat Beats)

2) Golden Dawn Arkestra, Children of the Sun (Nine Mile)

3) Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Downey to Lubbock (Yep Roc)

4) Floyd Domino, Floyd Domino’s All-Stars (Golliber)

5) Mobley, Fresh Lies, Vol. I (Violent Films)

6) Andre Hayward & Chris Jones, Way Back Home

7) Coffee Sergeants, Phantom Verses

8) Wood & Wire, North of Despair (Blue Corn)

9) Mien (Rocket Recordings)

10) Aaron Lack’s VibeTet, Lovely Night (Millard Street)

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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.

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.

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.