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Best Club DJ/Dance Club
Wammo

Club Chiwawa
Sanitarium
Club XS
Underground
Boathouse
Dallas
Sneakers
New West

Best Concert By a Touring Artist
Little Feat (Auditorium Shores)

Los Lobos (Opera House)
Stevie Ray Vaughan (Auditorium Shores)
Iggy Pop (Back Room)
King's X (Back Room)
Pantera (Back Room)
Eric Johnson (Steamboat)
Bob Dylan (Palmer)
Aerosmith (Erwin Center)
Basia (Paramount)
David Bowie (Erwin Center)
Ziggy Marley (Opera House)

Best Concert Poster
Club Chiwawa Series by Micael Priest

Ziggy Marley by Jagmo
Carnaval by Guy Juke
Frank Zozik
Jay Austin

Best Cover Art
Vaughan Brothers, Family Style (Tony Sellari)

Native Sun
Eric Johnson, Ah Via Musicom (Tommy Steele)
Joe Ely, Live at Liberty Lunch
Agony Column, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (Eric Haze)
Chris Thomas, Cry of the Prophets (Kim Champagne)
Ed Hall, Love Poke Here (Marty Harris)
Various (Frank Kozik)

Best Live Music Venue
Liberty Lunch

Back Room
Cactus Cafe
Steamboat
Antone's
Continental Club
Cannibal Club
Hole in the Wall
Opera House

Best Local Music TV Show
Austin City Limits

Texas Connection
CapZeyeZ
VidEot's Choice
Dull-a-vision
Access TV
Lost in Austin
Texas Music Show
Gesundheit

Best Music Store
Musicmakers Austin

Strait Music
Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas
Waterloo
South Austin Music
Tommy's Drum Shop
Sound Warehouse
Rock & Roll Rentals
Alpha Music
Guitar Resurrection

Best Music Writer
Peter Blackstock

Michael Corcoran
John T. Davis
Michael Point
Jay Trachtenberg
Jody Denberg
John Conquest
Don McLeese

Best Radio DJ
Jody Denberg (KGSR)

Larry Monroe (KUT)
John Aieli (KUT)
Paul Ray (KUT)
Dave Obermann (KUT)
John Logan (Z102)
Mike Driver (Z102)
Jay Trachtenberg (KUT)
Dale Dudley (KLBJ)

Best Radio Station
KUT 90.5FM

KGSR
KLBJ
Z-102
KTSB
KAZI
KASE
KVET
KHFI

Best Record Producer
Mark Hallman

Mike Stewart
J.D. Foster
Joe Ely
Richard Mullen
Spot
Brian Beattie
Bill Johnson
Stuart Sullivan
Eric Johnson

Best Record Store
Waterloo Records

Sound Warehouse
Sound Exchange
Tower Records
Antone's Records
Inner Sanctum
Compact Discs of Austin
Hastings
Musicmania
DeMilo's

Best Thing to Happen
Jody Denberg's move to KGSR

Austin Rehearsal Complex
Michael MacCambridge not writing about music
Butch Hancock's No 2 Alike concerts
More of everything
Saxon Pub opened
Aquafest contract
Cannibal Club still open
Twang Twang Shock-A-Boom broke up
La Zona Rosa opened

Best Video
Vaughan Brothers, "Tick Tock"

King's X, "It's Love"
Texas Tornados, "Who Were You Thinkin' Of"
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, "Pride & Joy"
Lyle Lovett, "Don't Mess with Texas"
Tish Hinojosa, "Something in the Rain"

What Should Happen to Austin Music in 1991?
Earlier shows

More clubs
Better everything
Aquafest play more local music
KGSR keeps growing
KTSB gets FM frequency
More bands signed
Cannibal Club stays open
Jimmie Vaughan stages a solo comeback
Another Armadillo opens

Worst Thing to Happen
Stevie Ray Vaughan died

Best Texas Recordings
Hall of Fame
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