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Best Club DJ/Dance Club
Wammo

World
Broken Spoke
Planetarium
Club Chiwawa
Club XS
Mark Dean
Curfew
Shark Club
Toulouse

Best Concert By a Touring Artist
Little Feat (Austin Opera House)

Robert Plant (Erwin Center)
Pink Floyd (Erwin Center)
Sting (Erwin Center)
Van Halen (Erwin Center)
Roy Orbison (AquaFest)
Lyle Lovett (Paramount)
Jimmy Page (Erwin Center)
Dash Rip Rock (Back Room, Club Cairo, Liberty Lunch)
Bruce Springsteen (Erwin Center)
AC/DC (Erwin Center)

Best Concert Poster
Bill Narum, Continental Club Calendars

Guy Juke, Austin Music Awards Show
Jagmo, k.d. lang
Meat Puppets/Ed Hall
Joe Ely's Tour of Texas
Club Chiwawa Halloween
Guy Juke, Carnaval
Julie Speed, R & B Foundation Benefit
Wigglies
Teisco Del Rey
Little Feat
Last Temptation of Slash Cowboy
Jay Aaron
Ed Hall
Butthole Surfers
Antone's Anniversary

Best Live Music Venue
Liberty Lunch

Back Room
Steamboat
Opera House
Antone's
Cactus Cafe
Club Cairo
Hole in the Wall
Broken Spoke
Chicago House
Black Cat
Continental Club

Best Local Music TV Show
Austin City Limits

Hank Sinatra Presents
VidEot's Choice
Rockline TV
Citizens Live
Dull-A-Vision
Philmorvideo
Green Fungus
Austin On Line
Access

Best Music Store

Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas Music
Musicmakers of Austin
Tommy's Drum Shop
Danny's Guitars
South Austin Music
Music Exchange
Austin City Music
Guitar Resurrection
Mike's Music
Alpha Music

Best Music Writer
Ed Ward

Michael Corcoran
Casey Monahan
John T. Davis
Peter Blackstock
Michael MacCambridge
Michael Point
Luke Torn
Jody Denberg

Best Radio DJ
Jody Denberg (KLBJ)

Larry Monroe (KUT)
Paul Ray (KUT)
Sammy Allred (KVET)
Kevin Connor (Z102)
Dave Obermann (KUT)
Jay Trachtenberg (KUT)
John Aeilli (KUT)
Dale Dudley (KLBJ)
Peggy Simmons (KLBJ)

Best Radio Station
KUT-FM

KLBJ
Z102
KTSB
KAZI
K-98
B-93
KQFX
KASE
KVET

Best Record Producer
Joe Ely (Jimmie Dale Gilmore)

Spot (Texas Instruments)
Mike Stewart (Poi Dog Pondering)
Stuart Sullivan (Mannish Boys)
Ben Blank (Slash Cowboy)
Mark Hallman (Eliza Gilkyson)
James White (Alvin Crow)
Brian Beattie (Glass Eye)
Jim Yanaway (Denny Freeman)
Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel)

Best Record Store
Waterloo Records

Sound Warehouse
Antone's
Sound Exchange
Hasting's
Yesterday's
Inner Sanctum
Sundance
Harmony House
Compact Discs of Austin

Best Video
Joe Ely, "Don't Mess With Texas"

Alseep at the Wheel, "Way Down Texas Way"
"Don't Mess With Texas" campaign
Asleep at the Wheel, "Hot Rod Lincoln"
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Powerful Stuff"
Wagoneers, "I Wanna Know Her Again"
Joe Ely at Gruene Hall
Timbuk 3, "Eden Alley"
Lyle Lovett, "She's No Lady"
Will and the Kill "Heart of Steel"
Steve Earle, "Copperhead Road"

Worst Thing to Happen
Clubs Closing

Big Mamou closed
Corky left
Ed Ward returned
Jim Ramsey
6th Street
Club Cairo's new management
Larry Monroe's air time cut back
Roy Orbison died
Shark Club closed
Michael Michael and the Maxx
Black Cat moved and charges a cover

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