KISS ON MY LISTS
NATIONAL TOP 10 1) Jenny Lewis With the Watson Twins, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
2) Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, Under the Covers Vol. 1 (Shout! Factory)
3) Dears, Gang of Losers (Arts & Crafts)
4) Pet Shop Boys, Fundamental (Rhino)
5) Camera Obscura, Let’s Get Out of This Country (Merge)
6) Drive-by Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse (New West)
7) Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
8) M. Ward, Post-War (Merge)
9) Del McCoury Band, The Promised Land (Sugar Hill)
10) Weird Al Yankovic, Straight Outta Lynwood (Volcano)
LOCAL TOP 10
1) Black Angels, Passover (Light in the Attic)
2) … And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, So Divided (Interscope)
3) Riverboat Gamblers, To the Confusion of Our Enemies (Volcom)
4) San Saba County, It’s Not the Fall That Hurts (India)
5) Brennen Leigh, Devil’s on My Trail
6) White Ghost Shivers, Everyone’s Got ‘Em (Chicken Ranch)
7) Faceless Werewolves, Medium Freaky (Super Secret)
8) Blue Diamond Shine, Shrimp Boat Town
9) James Hand, The Truth Will Set You Free! (Rounder)
10) Masonic, Without Warning
10 MORE LOCALS FOR THE ROAD
1) Banana Blender Surprise, Paint the Town Brown (Freedom)
2) Joe Doucet, Houston’s Third Ward Blues (DialTone)
3) South Filthy, Crackin’ Up (Licorice Tree)
4) Lower Class Brats, The New Seditionaries (TKO)
5) Hickoids, Corn Demon (SausTex)
6) When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Snacks (Emperor Jones)
7) The Dirty Hearts, (Salt Shaker)
8) American Graveyard, Rough Around the Edges
9) Sunny Sweeney, Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame
10) The Mad Dukes, The Mad Dukes Sing and Play for You (RippyFish)
10 ATXers TO WATCH IN 2007
AUX Automusik
The Flood
Future Clouds & Radar
Go Nova
Low Line Caller
Mice & Rifles
Roger’s Porn Collection
White Denim
Yellow Fever
This article appears in 2006.