Gang of Four (Opera House, 9/20)
Police (Erwin Center, 3/21)
Talking Heads (Fiesta Gardens, 9/7)
Joe Jackson (Coliseum, 11/16)
Clash (Coliseum, 6/9-10)
Stray Cats (Club Foot, 9/5)
X (Club Foot, 11/17-18)
Linda Ronstadt (Erwin Center, 11/29)
Elvis Costello (Coliseum, 7/29)
Art Maggots, X at Club Foot, 11/16-17
Micael Priest, Grateful Dead at Manor Downs
Danny Garrett, Stevie Vaughan at Antone's
Gay Politicians at the Rock & Roll Final Exam, Club Foot
Noxx, D-Day/Chinanine
Rank and File's Monument Valley poster
Buffalo Gals at the Ritz
Stray Cats and LeRoi Brothers at Club Foot, 9/5, by Field
Larry Monroe (KUT-FM)
Jody Denberg (KLBJ-FM)
Tom Quarles (KNOW)
Dave Jarrott (K-98)
Bobby Orlando (K-98)
Brad First (Club Foot)
John Aielli (KUT-FM)
John Michael Scott (KLBJ-FM)
Sky (KLBJ-FM)
Paul Ray, KUT 90.5FM, 300 W. Dean Keeton, 512/471-1631, kut.org
Antone's
Steamboat
Continental Club
Austin Opera House
emmajoe's
Studio 29
Soap Creek
Paramount Theatre
Piggy's
Diva
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Brimstone and Treacle
Countryman
Secret Policeman's Other Ball
Fantasia
Diner
Urgh: A Music War
Cat People
Soap Creek
Cardi's
Ritz Theatre
Studio 29
Oasis
Emmajoe's
Ed's
Piggy's
Buffalo Gals Warehouse
KAZI-FM
KLBJ-FM
KHFI-FM
KNOW
KELG
KTXZ
KMFA-FM
KEY-103
KVET
Nick Lowe (the Fabulous Thunderbirds)
Spot (Big Boys, the Dicks)
Michael Brovsky (Joe Ely)
Peter Butcher (Private Lives)
David Kahne (Rank & File)
Earle Mankey (the Skunks)
Joe Gracey
Craig Hillis
Stu Cook
Richard Mullen
Huey Meaux
Sound Warehouse
Inner Sanctum
Treasured Tracs
Recycled Records
Record Exchange
Zebra
Yesterday's
Discount Records
Music Express
Joe Ely, the Lift, and Little Charlie at the Austin Opera House, 12/31
Rank and File, Joe "King" Carrasco at the Texas Union, 9/10
Big Boys with the Marching Plague at Soap Creek, 12/11
Fabulous Thunderbirds and the LeRoi Brothers at the Coliseum, 12/31
MTV
KAZI-FM
Rank and File
KUT going 100,000 watts
It survived
Ritz Theatre
Little Charlie
More clubs
More bands
Kevin Overkill's Banned program on ACTV
Joe "King" Carrasco, "Person to Person"
Fabulous Thunderbirds, "How Do You Spell Love?"
Peter Gabriel, "Shock the Monkey"
Clash, "Rock the Casbah"
Billy Joel, "Pressure"
Max and the Makeup, "Zerox"
Stray Cats, "Rock This Town"
Tom Petty, "You Got Lucky"
Skunks
Dicks
Talmadge D'Amour
MDC/Stains
Christopher Cross
Judy's
Joe Ely Band
Explosives
Solar Pigs
Miles Davis
Beatles
David Bowie
Prince
Men at Work
Public Image Ltd.
Stevie Wonder
Tower of Power
Crass
Cardi's
The opinions of Ed Ward
KLBJ-FM
Reaganomics
Not enough airplay on commercial radio
The Ritz closed as a punk venue
KUT-FM ended its late-night jazz
MTV
The Armadillo wasn't resurrected
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