New stuff we spun for you on WFUV in 2006, in alphabetical order.
The Best of 2006 Listener Poll Results | WFUV Staff Picks
| ARTIST | ALBUM | LABEL |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron Neville | Bring it on Home...The Soul Classics | Burgundy/SonyBMG |
| Alejandro Escovedo | The Boxing Mirror | Back Porch |
| Alexi Murdoch | Time Without Consequence | Zero Summer/Razor & Tie |
| Allison Moorer | Getting Somewhere | Vanguard |
| ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra) | Fly Between Falls | Brushfire/Universal |
| Amos Lee | Supply and Demand | Blue Note |
| Amy Millan | Honey From the Tombs | Arts & Crafts |
| Andy Laird | Step Out of Line | |
| Ane Brun | A Temporary Dive | V2 |
| Ani DiFranco | Reprieve | Righteous Babe |
| Antje Duvekot | Big Dream Boulevard | Black Wolf |
| The Avett Brothers | Four Thieves Gone | Ramseur |
| Badly Drawn Boy | Born in the UK | Astralwerks |
| Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | Desperation/Nettwerk |
| The Be Good Tanyas | Hello Love | Nettwerk |
| The Beatles | Love | Apple/Capitol |
| Beck | The Information | Interscope |
| Bela Fleck and the Flecktones | The Hidden Land | Columbia |
| Belle and Sebastian | The Life Pursuit | Matador |
| Ben Harper | Both Sides of the Gun | Virgin |
| Ben Kweller | Ben Kweller | ATO |
| Beth Orton | Comfort of Strangers | Astralwerks |
| Big Al Anderson | After Hours | Legacy |
| Birdie Busch | The Ways We Try | Bar/None |
| Block | The Last Single Guy | SonaBlast! |
| Bob Dylan | Modern Times | Columbia |
| Bonnie Raitt | Bonnie Raitt and Friends | Capitol |
| The Bottle Rockets | Zoysia | Bloodshot |
| Brazilian Girls | Talk to La Bomb | Verve Forecast |
| Brett Dennen | So Much More | Dualtone |
| Bruce Cockburn | Life Short Call Now | Rounder |
| Bruce Springsteen | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions | Columbia |
| Buddy Guy | Can't Quit the Blues | Silvertone/Legacy |
| C.J. Chenier | The Desperate Kingdom of Love | World Village |
| Calexico | Garden Ruin | Quarterstick |
| Camera Obscura | Let's Get Out of This Country | Merge |
| Candi Staton | His Hands | Honest Jons/Astralwerks |
| Carrie Rodriguez | Seven Angels on a Bicycle | Back Porch |
| Cassandra Wilson | Thunderbird | Blue Note |
| Cat Power | The Greatest | Matador |
| Catherine Russell | Cat | World Village |
| Catie Curtis | Long Night Moon | Compass |
| Cesaria Evora | Rogamar | Bluebird/RCAVictor |
| Charlie Hunter Trio | Copperopolis | rope-a-dope |
| Charlie Musselwhite | Delta Hardware | Back Porch |
| Charlie Sexton/Shannon McNally | Southside Sessions | Back Porch |
| Chris Isaak | Greatest Hits | Reprise |
| Chris Smither | Leave the Light On | Signature Sounds |
| Chris Thile | How to Grow a Woman From the Ground | Sugar Hill |
| Chris Whitley & the Bastard Club | Reiter In | Red Parlor |
| Citizen Cope | Every Waking Moment | RCA |
| The Concretes | In Colour | Astralwerks |
| Corinne Bailey Rae | Corinne Bailey Rae | Capitol |
| Cracker | Greenland | Cooking Vinyl |
| Crooked Still | Shaken By a Low Sound | Signature Sounds |
| Damien Rice | 9 | WB |
| The Damnwells | Air Stereo | ZOE/Rounder |
| Dan Bern | Breathe | Messenger Records |
| Dan Zanes and Friends | Catch That Train! | Festival Five/Hear Music |
| Dave Alvin | West of the West | Yep Roc |
| David Ford | I Sincerely Apologise For All the Trouble I've Caused | Red |
| David Gilmour | On An Island | Columbia |
| David Mead | Tangerine | Tallulah! |
| Dayna Kurtz | Another Black Feather | Kismet |
| The Decemberists | The Crane Wife | Capitol |
| Derek Trucks Band | Songlines | Columbia |
| Diana Krall | From This Moment On | Verve |
| Dion | Bronx in Blue | DMR |
| The Dirty Dozen Brass Band | What's Going On | Shout! |
| The Ditty Bops | Moon Over the Freeway | WB |
| Dixie Chicks | Taking the Long Way | Columbia |
| Donald Fagen | Morph the Cat | Reprise |
| Dr. John | Mercernary | Blue Note |
| The Dresden Dolls | Yes, Virginia | Roadrunner |
| Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Strangers Things | Fantasy/Concord |
| The Elected | Sun, Sun, Sun | Sub Pop |
| Eleanor McEvoy | Out There | Mosco Disc |
| Eliot Morris | Balancing the World | Universal |
| Elton John | The Captain & The Kid | Interscope |
| Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint | The River in Reverse | Verve |
| Elvis Costello | Live With the Metropole Orkest: My Flame Turns Blue | Universal Classics |
| Eric Clapton/J.J. Cale | The Road to Escondido | Reprise |
| Eric Lindell | Change in the Weather | Alligator |
| The Essex Green | Cannibal Sea | Merge |
| Eugene Edwards | My Favorite Revolution | Flagship |
| Euphoria | Precious Time | Rounder |
| Fatboy Slim | The Greatest Hits: Why Try Harder | Astralwerks |
| The Flaming Lips | At War With the Mystics | WB |
| Frank Black | Fast Man Raider Man | Back Porch |
| G. Love | Lemonade | Brushfire |
| Gecko Turner | Guapapasea! | Quango |
| Glen Phillips | Mr. Lemons | umami/bigHelium |
| Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | Downtown/Atlantic |
| Gob Iron | Death Songs For the Living | Transit Sound/Legacy |
| Golden Smog | Another Fine Day | Lost Highway |
| Gomez | How We Operate | ATO |
| Gov't Mule | High & Mighty | ATO |
| Grace Potter and the Nocturnals | Nothing But the Water | Ragged Company/Hollywood |
| Grant-Lee Phillips | Ninteeneighties | ZOE/Rounder |
| Grayson Capps | Wail & Ride | Hyena |
| Greg Brown | The Evening Call | Red House |
| The Guggenheim Grotto | Waltzing Alone | UFO |
| Guillemots | From the Cliffs | Fantastic Plastic/Verve Forecast |
| Guy Clark | Workbench Songs | Dualtone |
| Guy Davis | Skunk Mello | Red House |
| Hank Williams III | Straight to Hell | Curb |
| Hem | No Word From Tom | Nettwerk |
| Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass | Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped | Shout! |
| Hotel Lights | Hotel Lights | Bar/None |
| Howard Tate | A Portrait of Howard | Solid Ground |
| Indigo Girls | Despite Our Differences | Hollywood |
| Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan | Ballad of the Broken Seas | V2 |
| Jack Johnson | Sing-a-Longs and Lullabies | Brushfire/Universal |
| Jackie Greene | American Myth | Verve Forecast |
| James Hunter | People Gonna Talk | Go/Rounder |
| James Luther Dickinson | Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger | MerLess |
| Janove Ottesen | Francis' Lonely Nights | Back Porch |
| Jason Collett | Idols of Exile | Arts and Crafts |
| Jay Bennett | The Magnificent Defeat | Rykodisc |
| Jaymay | Sea Green, Sea Blue | |
| Jeffrey Foucault | Ghost Repeater | Signature Sounds |
| Jennifer Kimball | Oh Hear Us | Epoisse |
| Jenny Lewis w/The Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat | Team Love |
| Jerry Lee Lewis | Last Man Standing | Artist/Shangri-La |
| Jesse Harris | Mineral | Secret Sun |
| Jessi Colter | Out of the Ashes | Shout Factory |
| Joan Osborne | Pretty Little Stranger | Vanguard |
| Joe Purdy | Only Four Seasons | Warner/Chappell |
| John Gorka | Writing in the Margins | Red House |
| John Mayer | Continuum | Columbia |
| Johnny Cash | American V: A Hundred Highways | American |
| Jolie Holland | Springtime Can Kill You | ANTI/Epitaph |
| Jonah Smith | Jonah Smith | Relix |
| Jonny Lang | Turn Around | A & M |
| Jose Gonzalez | Veneer | Mute |
| Joseph Arthur | Nuclear Daydream | Lonely Astronaut |
| Josh Ritter | The Animal Years | V2 |
| Joshua Radin | We Were Here | Columbia |
| Jules Shear | Dreams Don't Count | Mad Dragon |
| Jurassic 5 | Feedback | Interscope |
| Kaki King | ...Until We Felt Red | Velour |
| Kasey Chambers | Carnival | WB |
| Keane | Under The Iron Sea | Interscope |
| Keb' Mo' | Suitcase | Red Ink/Epic |
| The Kennedys | Songs of the Open Road | Appleseed |
| The Klezmatics | Wonder Wheel [Lyrics By Woody Guthrie] | JMG |
| Kris Delmhorst | Strange Conversation | Signature Sounds |
| KT Tunstall | Eye to the Telescope | Virgin |
| Lee Rocker | Racin' the Devil | Alligator |
| The Lemonheads | The Lemonheads | Vagrant |
| Lenine | Lenine | Six Degrees |
| Leonard Cohen | I'm Your Man Soundtrack | Verve Forecast |
| Lila Downs | La Cantina | Narada |
| Lily Allen | Smile EP | Capitol |
| Linda Ronstadt with Ann Savoy | Adieu False Heart | Vanguard |
| Lindsay Buckingham | Under the Skin | Reprise |
| The Little Willies | The Little Willies | Blue Note |
| Lloyd Cole | Antidepressant | One Little Indian |
| Los Lobos | The Town and the City | Mammoth/Hollywood |
| Los Lonley Boys | Orale | Epic |
| Luka Bloom | Innocence | Big Sky/Cooking Vinyl |
| M. Ward | Post-War | Merge |
| Madeleine Peyroux | Half the Perfect World | Rounder |
| The Mammals | Departure | Signature Sounds |
| Mark Erelli | Hope & Other Casualties | Signature Sounds |
| Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris | This is Us | WB |
| Mary Lorson & Saint Low | Realistic | Cooking Vinyl |
| Mason Jennings | Boneclouds | Epic |
| Matt Costa | Songs We Sing | Brushfire/Universal |
| Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs | Under the Covers Vol.1 | Shout! |
| Michael Franti | Yellfire! | ANTI/Epitaph |
| Michael Stipe | In the Sun EP | WB/iTunes |
| Milton | Milton | Flying Horse |
| Mindy Smith | Long Island Shores | Vanguard |
| The Minus Five | The Minus Five | Yep Roc |
| Mojave 3 | Puzzles Like You | 4AD/Beggars |
| Morrissey | Ringleader of the Tormentors | Attack/Sanctuary |
| Mosquitos | Mosquitos III | Bar/None |
| Neil Young | Living With War | Reprise |
| Nellie McKay | Pretty Little Head | Hungry Mouse/spinART |
| The New Amsterdams | Story Like a Scar | Vagrant |
| New York Dolls | One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This | Roadrunner |
| Nouvelle Vague | Bande a Part | Luaka Bop/V2 |
| Old Crow Medicine Show | Big Iron World | Nettwerk |
| Ollabelle | Riverside Battle Songs | Verve Forecast |
| Paolo Nutini | Live Sessions EP | Atlantic |
| Paul Simon | Surprise | Warner Brothers |
| Paul Westerberg | "Open Season" soundtrack | Lost Highway |
| Pete Droge | Under the Waves | Puzzle Tree |
| Pete Yorn | Nightcrawler | Red Ink/Columbia |
| Peter Bradley Adams | Gather Up | bigHelium |
| Peter Mulvey | The Knuckleball Suite | Signature Sounds |
| Phoenix | It's Never Been Like That | Astralwerks |
| The Raconteurs | Broken Boy Soldiers | V2 |
| Ralph Stanley | A Distant Land to Roam: Songs of the Carter Family | DMZ/Columbia |
| Raul Malo | You're Only Lonely | Sanctuary |
| Ray LaMontagne | Live From Bonnaroo 2005 | RCA |
| Ray LaMontagne | Till the Sun Turns Black | RCA |
| Regina Spektor | Begin to Hope | Sire/Reprise |
| Rhett Miller | The Believer | Verve Forecast |
| Richard Ashcroft | Keys to the World | Virgin |
| Richard Buckner | Meadow | Merge |
| Richard Butler | Richard Butler | KOCH |
| Richard Julian | Slow New York | Manhattan |
| Robert Randolph & the Family Band | Colorblind | WB |
| Robinella | Solace For the Lonely | Dualtone |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela | Rodrigo y Gabriela | ATO |
| Rosanne Cash | Black Cadillac | Capitol |
| Sam Roberts | Chemical City | Universal |
| Sandi Thom | Smile...It Confuses People | Columbia |
| Sasha Dobson | Modern Romance | Secret Sun |
| Scissor Sisters | Ta-Dah | Universal Motown |
| Scott Miller & the Commonwealth | Citation | Sugar Hill |
| Shawn Colvin | These Four Walls | Nonesuch |
| Shawn Mullins | 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor | Vanguard |
| Sia | Colour and the Small One | Astralwerks |
| Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars | Living Like a Refugee | ANTI/Epitaph |
| Slaid Cleaves | Unsung | Rounder |
| Solomon Burke | Nashville | Shout! |
| Sondre Lerche and the Faces Down Quartet | Duper Sessions | Astralwerks |
| Sonic Youth | Rather Ripped | Geffen |
| Sonya Kitchell | Words Came Back to Me | Velour |
| Sparklehorse | Dreamt For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain | Astralwerks |
| Stephen Clair | Under the Bed | Valley |
| Sting | Songs From the Labyrinth | Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics |
| Strays Don't Sleep | Strays Don't Sleep | Hybrid |
| The Subdudes | Behind the Levee | Back Porch |
| The Submarines | The Submarines | Nettwerk |
| T-Bone Burnett | The True False Identity | Columbia |
| Teddy Thompson | Separate Ways | Verve Forecast |
| Thea Gilmore | Harpo's Ghost | Sanctuary |
| Thom Yorke | The Eraser | Beggars |
| Tim Easton | Ammunition | New West |
| Tim O'Reagan | Tim O'Reagan | Lost Highway |
| Tobias Froberg | Somewhere in the City | Cheap Lullaby |
| Todd Snider | The Devil You Know | NewDoor/uMe |
| Tom Petty | Highway Companion | American/WB |
| Tom Russell | Love & Fear | Hightone |
| Tom Waits | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | ANTI/Epitaph |
| Tony Bennett | Duets: An American Classic | RPM/Columbia |
| Tony Joe White | Uncovered | Swamp |
| Tres Chicas | Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl | Yep Roc |
| Trey Anastasio | Bar 17 | Rubber Jungle/Red Ink |
| Umphrey's McGee | Safety in Numbers | SCIFidelity |
| Van Hunt | On the Jungle Floor | Capitol |
| Van Morrison | Pay the Devil | Lost Highway |
| Various Artists | "A Brokedown Melody" Soundtrack | Brushfire/Universal |
| Various Artists | "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack" | Verve Forecast |
| Various Artists | "Friends With Money" soundtrack | Rykodisc |
| Various Artists | "Transamerica" Soundtrack | Nettwerk |
| Various Artists | The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music | Shout! |
| Various Artists | The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris Kristofferson | American Roots |
| Warren Zanes | People That I'm Wrong For | Dualtone |
| The Weepies | Say I Am You | Nettwerk |
| Widespread Panic | Earth to America | Sanctuary |
| Wilco | Kicking Television: Live in Chicago | Nonesuch |
| Will Hoge | The Man Who Killed Love | |
| Willie Nelson | Songbird | Lost Highway |
| Willie Nelson | You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker | Lost Highway |
| Willy Porter | Available Light | Weasel |
| Winterpills | Winterpills | Signature Sounds |
| World Party | Dumbing Up | Seaview/Fontana |
| Yo La Tengo | I Am Not Afraid of You | Matador |
| Yusuf | An Other Cup | Atlantic/Ya |
| Zero 7 | The Garden | Atlantic |
