Austin Top 10

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Austin Top 10

Greg Beets

1) Moonlight Towers, Day Is the New Night (Chicken Ranch)

2) White Denim, D (Downtown)

3) Scott H. Biram, Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot)

4) Casual Victim Pile II (12XU)

5) Churchwood, Churchwood (Saustex)

6) The Gary, El Camino (Cedar Fever)

7) Flesh Lights, Muscle Pop (Twistworthy)

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8) Elevated Lines, Evil Eye EP

9) Leatherbag, Yellow Television

10) Good Times Crisis Band, Nine of Clubs (Australian Cattle God)

Jim Caligiuri

1) Suzanna Choffel, Steady Eye Shaky Bow

2) Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Scandalous (Lost Highway)

3) Slaid Cleaves, Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge (Music Road)

4) Graham Weber, Women

5) The Carper Family, Back When

6) The Band of Heathens, Top Hat Crown & the Clapmaster's Son (BOH)

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7) Texas Artists Performing the Music of Sara Hickman, The Best of Times (Sleeveless)

8) Michael Fracasso, Saint Monday (Little Fuji)

9) Hot Club of Cowtown, What Makes Bob Holler (Proper)

10) Erin Ivey & the Finest Kind, Broken Gold (Mixtank)

Thomas Fawcett

1) Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Scandalous (Lost Highway)

2) The Echocentrics, Sunshadows (Ubiquity)

3) White Denim, D (Downtown)

4) Ocote Soul Sounds, Taurus (ESL)

5) T Bird & the Breaks, Never Get Out of This Funk Alive

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6) Gary Clark Jr., The Bright Lights EP (Warner Bros.)

7) The League of Extraordinary Gz, Concealed Weapons 3

8) Charanga Cakewalk, El Brown Recluse (Cosmica)

9) The Echocentrics, Echoland: A Tribute to Timbaland (Ubiquity)

10) Gary Floater, Floater Rising: The Songs of Gary Floater (El Paisano)

Doug Freeman

1) White Denim, D (Downtown)

2) Okkervil River, I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

3) Gurf Morlix, Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream (Rootball)

4) Sarah Jarosz, Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill)

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5) The Wooden Birds, Two Matchsticks (Barsuk)

6) Graham Weber, Women

7) Ume, Phantoms (Modern Outsider)

8) Scott H. Biram, Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot)

9) Leatherbag, Yellow Television

10) Hayes Carll, KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway)

Melanie Haupt

1) Matt the Electrician, Accidental Thief

2) Bill Callahan, Apocalypse (Drag City)

3) Centro-matic, Candidate Waltz (Undertow)

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4) Okkervil River, I Am Very Far (Jagjaguwar)

5) The Gourds, Old Mad Joy (Vanguard)

6) Sons of Fathers, Sons of Fathers (Blanco River)

7) Explosions in the Sky, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence)

8) Iron & Wine, Kiss Each Other Clean (Warner Bros.)

9) Nathan Hamilton, Beauty Wit and Speed (Irondust)

10) Scott H. Biram, Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot)

Chase Hoffberger

1) East Cameron Folkcore, Sound & Fury: Songs in the Key of Love and Death

2) White Denim, D (Downtown)

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3) DJ Rapid Ric, Whut It Dew: The Album (Dew Music Group)

4) Shapes Have Fangs, Dinner in the Dark (Reverberation Appreciation Society)

5) Shakey Graves, Roll the Bones

6) The League of Extraordinary Gz, Concealed Weapons 3

7) A Giant Dog, Trashcan USA

8) Sorne, House of Stone

9) The Moonhangers, The Moonhangers

10) Roger Sellers, Moments

Margaret Moser

1) Sarah Jarosz, Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill)

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2) Jimmie Vaughan, Plays More Blues, Ballads & Favorites (Shout! Factory)

3) Speak, I Believe in Everything (Modern Art/Playing in Traffic)

4) White Denim, D (Downtown)

6) Tyrone Vaughan, Downtime

7) Greezy Wheels, Gone Greezy

8) The Gourds, Old Mad Joy (Vanguard)

9) Quiet Company, We Are All Where We Belong

10) Gary Clark Jr., The Bright Lights EP (Warner Bros.)

Austin Powell

1) White Denim, Live at Third Man (Third Man)

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2) Scott H. Biram, Bad Ingredients (Bloodshot)

3) Explosions in the Sky, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence)

4) Peter & the Wolf, Easy Mtn.

5) Gurf Morlix, Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream (Rootball)

6) Centro-matic, Candidate Waltz (Undertow)

7) Bad Sports, Kings of the Weekend (Dirtnap)

8) Graham Weber, Women

9) Casual Victim Pile II (12XU)

10) Leatherbag, Yellow Television

Jay Trachtenberg

Austin Top 10

1) Black Red Black, Black Red Black

2) Ocote Soul Sounds, Taurus (ESL)

3) Eddy Hobizal, Kinetic (Red Sky)

4) Sarah Jarosz, Follow Me Down (Sugar Hill)

5) Gary Clark Jr., The Bright Lights EP (Warner Bros.)

6) Golden Bear, Alive (C-Side)

7) T Bird & the Breaks, Never Get Out of This Funk Alive

8) Graham Reynolds, Duke! Three Portraits of Ellington (Innova)

9) Sons of Fathers, Sons of Fathers (Blanco River)

10) Erin Ivey & the Finest Kind, Broken Gold (Mixtank)

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