MELANIE HAUPT

1) Okkervil River, Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)

2) Centro-matic, Love You Just the Same (Misra)

3) God Drives a Galaxy, Pale Blue Dot (Strangelove)

4) Her Space Holiday, The Young Machines (Mush)

5) Los Lonely Boys (Or Music)

6) Benjamin Gibbard & Andrew Kenny, HOME: Volume V (Post-Parlo)

7) Knife in the Water, Cut the Cord (Aspyr)

8) Grand Champeen, The One That Brought You (Glurp)

9) Western Keys, Damage (Post-Parlo)

10) Zykos, Comedy Horn (Post-Parlo)

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.

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.