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  The New Afternoon Show - Top 89.1 of 2008

Compiled by: 

Kayla Cohen (Co-Producer/Host/Music Director); Jonathan Williger (Co-Producer/Host/Program Director); Robby Morris (Music Director/Co-Producer/Host Winter-Spring 2008)

1. Angel - Kalmukia (Editions Mego)

2. Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)

3. Bardo Pond - Batholith (Three Lobed)

4. Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)

5. Belong - Colorloss Record (St. Ives)

6. The Black Angels - Directions to See A Ghost (Light in the Attic)

7. Black Time - Double Negative (In The Red)

8. Blank Dogs - On Two Sides (Troubleman Unlimited), The Fields (Woodsist)

9. Blood on the Wall - Liferz (The Social Registry)

10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In the Light ( Drag City )

11. Broken Strings - S/T (True Panther Sounds)

12. The Bug - London Zoo (NinjaTune)

13. Chad Van Gaalen - Soft Airplane (Sub Pop)

14. Cheveu - S/T (Born Bad)

15. Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light (Kranky)

16. Crystal Stilts - S/T (Woodsist), Alight of Night (Slumberland)

17. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Christmas For the Crows (Daggerman)

18. Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)

19. Desolation Wilderness - White Light Strobing (K)

20. Dredd Foole - Kissing the Contemporary Bliss (Family Vineyard)

21. Earth - The Bee Made Honey In the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)

22. Eat Skull - Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)

23. Ecstatic Sunshine - Way (Carpark)

24. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours (Goner)

25. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager (Constellation)

26. Factums - The Sistrum (Sacred Bones)

27. Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)

28. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)

29. The Goslings - Occasion (Not Not Fun)

30. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type)

31. Harvey Milk - Life…The Best Game In Town (Hydrahead)

32. High Places - S/T (Thrill Jockey)

33. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! (We Are Free)

34. James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes ( Tompkins Square )

35. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles '08 (Matador)

36. JT I.V. - Cosmic Lightning ( Drag City )

37. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)

38. King Darves - The Sun Splits for the Blind Swimmer (De Stijl)

39. Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals (Type)

40. Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher)

41. Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch)

42. Los Llamarada - Take the Sky (S-S)

43. Marnie Stern - This Is It... (Kill Rock Stars)

44. Moha! - One Way Ticket to Candyland (Rune Grammofon)

45. Mount Eerie - Black Wooden Ceiling Opening (P. Elverum & Sons)

46. Nemeth - Film (Thrill Jockey)

47. No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)

48. Ocean - Pantheon Of The Lesser (Important)

49. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)

50. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (We Are Free)

51. Portishead - Third (Mercury)

52. Religious Knives - The Door (Ecstatic Peace!), Resin (No Fun Productions)

53. Robert Forster - The Evangelist (Yep Roc)

54. Shit and Shine - Kuss Mich , Meine Liebe (Load)

55. Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze), A Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)

56. Silje Nes - Ames Room (Fatcat)

57. Singer - Unhistories ( Drag City )

58. Social Junk - Concussion Summer (Not Not Fun)

59. Spires That In the Sunset Rise - This Is Fire (Secret Eye)

60. Spiritualized - Songs In A&E (Fontana/Spaceman)

61. Stereolab - Chemical Chords (4AD)

62. Sun City Girls - "You're Never Alone with a Cigarette" Singles Volume 1 (Abduction)

63. Sunn 0))) - Dømkirke (Southern Lord)

64. Surf City -  Surf City EP (Morr Music)

65. Teenage Panzerkorps - Games For Slaves (Siltbreeze)

66. Thank You - Terrible Two (Thrill Jockey)

67. The Alps - III (Type)

68. The Dead C - Secret Earth (Ba Da Bing!)

69. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (self-released)

70. The Lines - Flood Bank (Acute)

71. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)

72. The New Year - The New Year (Touch And Go)

73. The Present - World I See (Loaf)

74. Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In (Tomlab)

75. Times New Viking - Rip It Off (Matador), Stay Awake EP (Matador)

76. U.S. Girls - Introducing (Siltbreeze)

77. Ulaan Khol - I (Soft Abuse), II (Soft Abuse)

78. V/A - 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies)

79. V/A - Bokan! Music in the Margin (Sub Rosa )

80. V/A - Living Bridge (Rare Book Room)

81. V/A - Love and Circuits: A Cardboard Records Compilation (Cardboard)

82. V/A - Messthetics Greatest Hiss (Hyped2Death)

83. Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky)

84. Vivian Girls - S/T (In the Red)

85. Windy & Carl - Songs for the Broken Hearted (Kranky)

86. Woods Family Creeps - S/T (Time-Lag)

87. Wye Oak - If Children (Merge)

88. Yellow Swans - Deterioration (Modern Radio Record Label)

89. Zomes - Zomes ( Holy Mountain )

89.1. Zola Jesus - S/T 7" (Die Stasi)


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 2008.

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