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  The New Afternoon Show - Top 89.1 of 2006

Compiled by: 

Robby Morris (Co-Producer/Host/Music Director), Brad LaBonte (Co-Producer/Host/General Manager), Daniel Blumin (Former Co-Producer/Host)

1. Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang (Domino)

2. Sibylle Baier - Colour Green (Orange Twin)

3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing)

4. Belle And Sebastian - The Life Persuit (Matador)

5. James Blackshaw - O True Believers (Important)

6. Boris - Pink (Southern Lord)/Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord)

7. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Nonesuch)

8. Brightblack Morning Light - S/T (Matador)

9. Broadcast - The Future Crayon (Warp)

10. Sandy Bull - Still Valentine's Day 1969: Live at the Matrix, San Francisco (Water)

11. Burial - S/T (Hyperdub)

12. Califone - Roots and Crowns/Roomsound (Thrill Jockey)

13. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (Merge)

14. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti-)

15. Cat Power - The Greatest (Matador)

16. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden (Kranky)

17. Susan Christie - Paint A Lady (B-Music/Finders Keepers)

18. Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)

19. The Country Teasers - The Empire Strikes Back (In The Red)

20. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky (Durtro/Jnana)

21. Karen Dalton - In My Own Time (Light In The Attic)

22. The Dead C. - Vain, Erudite, and Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 (Ba Da Bing)

23. Dead Moon - Echoes of the Past (Sub Pop)

24. Delta 5 - Singles & Sessions 1979-1981 (Kill Rock Stars)

25. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)

26. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush of Ghosts (Nonesuch)

27. Entrance - Prayer of Death (Tee Pee)

28. Faust - Faust IV (Virgin)

29. Flying Canyon - S/T (Soft Abuse)

30. Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing (Locust)

31. Alastair Galbraith, Alex Neilson & Richard Yougs - Belsayer Time (Time-Lag)

32. Golden Animals/Tommy and Linda - Electric Moonlight Garden/Self-Titled (Self-Released)

33. The Gothic Archies - The Tragic Treasury (Nonesuch)

34. Harvey Milk - Special Wishes (Megablade/Troubleman)

35. The Heads - Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive (Alternative Tentacles)

36. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Ole! Tarantula (Yep Roc)

37. Josef K - Entomology (Domino)

38. Kode9 + The Spaceape - Memories of the Future (Hyperdub)

39. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (Mute)

40. Lights - In Garnet Lake (Self Released)

41. Love Is All - Nine Times The Same Song (What's Your Rupture?)

42. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati (Matador)

43. Monotract - XPRMNTL LVRS (Ecstatic Peace)

44. Mouthus - For The Great Slave Lakes (Three Lobed)

45. The Necks - Chemist (ReR)

46. Joanna Newsom - Ys ( Drag City )

47. The Nightingales - Out of True (Iron Man)

48. No-Neck Blues Band & Embryo - EmbryoNNCK (Staubgold)

49. Marconi Notaro - No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios (Time-Lag)

50. Oakley Hall - Second Guessing/Gypsum Strigs (Amish/Brah)

51. Om - Conference of the Birds ( Holy Mountain )

52. Oneida - Happy New Year (Jagjaguwar)

53. OOIOO - Taiga (Thrill Jockey)

54. Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition (Matador)

55. Psychic Ills - Dins (The Social Registry)

56. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions (In The Red)

57. Scientist & Prince Jammy - Dub Landing (Auralux)

58. The Seconds - Kratitude (5RC)

59. Selda - Selda Bagcan (B-Music/Finders Keepers)

60. Shogun Kunitoki - Tasankokaiku (Fonal)

61. Silkworm - Chokes (12XU)

62. Skin Flesh And Bones Meet The Revolutionaries - Fighting Dub 1975-1979 (Hot Pot)

63. Stuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs (Beggars Banquet)

64. Stronen - Pohlitz (Rune Grammofon)

65. Svalastog - Woodwork (Rune Grammofon)

66. Harry Taussig - Fate Is Only Once ( Tompkins Square )

67. Telepathe - Farewell Forest (The Social Registry)

68. Television Personalities - My Dark Places (Domino)

69. These Are Powers - S/T (Self Released)

70. This Heat - Out of Cold Storage (ReR)

71. Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon (Thrill Jockey)

72. Uzeda - Stella (Touch and Go)

73. V/A - 7" Up! Singles Only! UK 78-82 (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)

74. V/A - And To the Disciples That Remain (Amish)

75. V/A - Cherrystones Word (Poptones)

76. V/A - Fuzzy Felt Folk (Trunk)

77. V/A - Gold Leaf Branches (Digitalis)

78. V/A - The Lost Tapes: Minimal Wave from Europe 81-86 (Minimal Wave)

79. V/A - More Arctic Hysteria/Son Of Arctic Hysteria: The Later Days Of Early Finish Avant-Garde (Love)

80. V/A - Touch 25 (Touch)

81. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone (DiChristina)

82. Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-lactam Ring)

83. Scott Walker - The Drift (4AD)

84. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Anti-)

85. Wasteland - All Versus All (Transparent)

86. White Magic - Dat Rosa Mel Apibus ( Drag City )

87. Witch - S/T (Tee Pee)

88. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal (Sub Pop)

89. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)

89.1 Aluk Todolo - S/T 7" (Public Guilt)


The New Afternoon Show staff would like to thank all the artists who stopped by for live performances, guest DJ sets, and interviews.  We'd also like to thank all record labels, program sponsors, and listeners, for their continued support throughout 2006.

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