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Austin Top 10

One hundred individual LP choices

January 3, 2014, Music

Greg Beets

1) Churchwood, 2 (Saustex)

2) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

3) Hickoids, Hairy Chafin' Ape Suit (Saustex)

4) Ichi Ni San Shi, Slow Truth (Super Secret)

5) Gleeson, II (Almost There)

6) Mirror Travel, Mexico (Modern Outsider)

7) Church Shoes, Loves (KMJ)

8) Peter Stopschinski, Now Would Be a Good Time (Need)

9) Joe King Carrasco y El Molino, Tlaquepaque (Anaconda)

10) The Carrots, New Romance (Elefant)


Jim Caligiuri

1) Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Cheater's Game (Premium)

2) Slaid Cleaves, Still Fighting the War (Music Road)

3) Dale Watson & His Lonestars, El Rancho Azul (Red House)

4) Carper Family, Old-Fashioned Gal

5) The Whiskey Sisters, The Whiskey Sisters (World)

6) Darden Smith, Love Calling (Compass)

7) Sarah Jarosz, Build Me Up From Bones (Sugar Hill)

8) Erin Ivey, Dreamy Weather

9) Owen Temple, Stories They Tell (El Paisano)

10) Aimee Bobruk, /ba.'brook/


Thomas Fawcett

1) League of Extraordinary Gz, #LeagueShit

2) Latasha Lee & the BlackTies, Latasha Lee & the BlackTies

3) Black Joe Lewis, Electric Slave (Vagrant)

4) The Relatives, The Electric Word (Yep Roc)

5) Riders Against the Storm, Riders Against the Storm

6) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

7) The Electric Peanut Butter Company, Trans-Atlantic Psych Classics Vol. 2 (Ubiquity)

8) The Black Angels, Indigo Meadow (Blue Horizon Ventures)

9) The Octopus Project, Fever Forms (Peek-a-Boo)

10) Jazz Mills, Jazz Mills


Doug Freeman

1) Slaid Cleaves, Still Fighting the War (Music Road)

2) Okkervil River, The Silver Gymnasium (ATO)

3) Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)

4) Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Dark & Dirty Mile (Proud Souls)

5) Charlie Faye, You Were Fine, You Weren't Even Lonely (Wine & Nut)

6) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

7) East Cameron Folkcore, For Sale

8) Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Cheater's Game (Premium)

9) Patty Griffin, American Kid (New West)

10) Ola Podrida, Ghosts Go Blind (Western Vinyl)


Chase Hoffberger

1) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

2) Berkshire Hounds, Are Not Amused

3) East Cameron Folkcore, For Sale

4) League of Extraordinary Gz, #LeagueShit

5) Dumb, Live Fast Die Dumb (Gnar)

6) American Sharks, American Sharks (The End)

7) Mirror Travel, Mexico (Modern Outsider)

8) Yum, Take My Blue

9) The Octopus Project, Fever Forms (Peek-a-Boo)

10) The Harvest Thieves, Lightning in a Bottle


Abby Johnston

1) Danny Malone, Balloons

2) Patty Griffin, Silver Bell (A&M/Universal)

3) A Giant Dog, Bone (Tic Tac Totally)

4) Bobby Jealousy, The Importance of Being Jealous (Superpop)

5) Frank Smith, Nineties (Big Snow)

6) Emily Wolfe, Mechanical Hands

7) Erin Ivey, Dreamy Weather

8) The Carrots, New Romance (Elefant)

9) Feathers, If All Now Here (Nyx)

10) Aisha Burns, Life in the Midwater (Western Vinyl)


Margaret Moser

1) Churchwood, 2 (Saustex)

2) Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison, Cheater's Game (Premium)

3) Mother Falcon, You Knew (Creme Fraiche)

4) Nathan Felix, The Curse, the Cross, & the Lion

5) Shoulders, Another Round (Kasslatt Music)

6) The Warren Hood Band, The Warren Hood Band (Red Parlor)

7) The Krayolas featuring Flaco Jimenez, Canicas (Talking Taco Music)

8) Wendy Colonna, Nectar (Pourquoi Pas Records)

9) Extreme Heat, Soulstice

10) Emily Bell, In Technicolor (One-Eyed George Entertainment)


Austin Powell

1) Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)

2) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

3) American Sharks, American Sharks (The End)

4) Mirror Travel, Mexico (Modern Outsider)

5) Overseas, Overseas

6) Zorch, Zzoorrcchh (Sargent House)

7) Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo, Prince Avalanche: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Temporary Residence)

8) Ichi Ni San Shi, Slow Truth (Super Secret)

9) Churchwood, 2 (Saustex)

10) Berkshire Hounds, Are Not Amused


Michael Toland

1) Scorpion Child, Scorpion Child (Nuclear Blast)

2) The Boxing Lesson, Big Hits! (Frenchie Smith)

3) Wiretree, Get Up

4) The Bremen Riot, PM Magazine

5) Gary Graves, Till the End of Time

6) Lions of Tsavo, Traverser (Toxic Assets)

7) Obscured by Echoes, Black Matter Manifesto

8) Mirror Travel, Mexico (Modern Outsider)

9) Halaska, Mayantology

10) Ancient VVisdom, Deathlike (Prosthetic)


Jay Trachtenberg

1) Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)

2) Dupree, Nuestro Camino (Public Hi-Fi)

3) Kellye Gray, And, They Call Us Cowboys: The Texas Music Project (Grr8)

4) Patty Griffin, American Kid (New West)

5) Iron & Wine, Ghost on Ghost (4AD)

6) The Relatives, The Electric Word (Yep Roc)

7) Pete Rodriguez, Caminando con Papi (Destiny)

8) What Made Milwaukee Famous, You Can't Fall Off the Floor

9) White Denim, Corsicana Lemonade (Downtown)

10) Earl Poole Ball, Pianography (Tin Tube Tunes)

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