RUNNERS-UP: Rank and File, Sundown; Explosives, Restless Natives; Austin All-Stars; Skunks; MDC, Millions of Dead Cops; Joe “King” Carrasco & the Crowns, Synapse Gap; Willie Nelson, Always On My Mind; Lou Ann Barton, Old Enough; Really Red, Teaching You the Fear

This article appears in March 4 • 1983.

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