New stuff we spun for you on WFUV in 2011, in alphabetical order.
The Best of 2011 Listener Poll | WFUV Staff Picks
| ARTIST | ALBUM |
|---|---|
| 1,2,3 | New Heaven |
| A.A. Bondy | Believers |
| Abigail Washburn | City of Refuge |
| Active Child | You Are All I See |
| Adele | 21 |
| Akron/Family | S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT |
| Alabama Shakes | Alabama Shakes EP |
| Alela Diane | Alela Diane & Wild Divine |
| Alexander | Alexander |
| Alison Krauss | Paper Airplane |
| AM & Shawn Lee | Celestial Electric |
| Amos Lee | iTunes Live From SoHo |
| Amos Lee | Mission Bell |
| Amy Speace | Land Like a Bird |
| Amy Winehouse | Lioness: Hidden Treasures |
| Andrew Bird | Useless Creatures |
| Andrew Calhoun | Grapevine |
| Anna Calvi | Anna Calvi |
| Apex Manor | The Year of Magical Drinking |
| Apparat | The Devil's Walk |
| Arbouretum | The Gathering |
| Arcade Fire | The Suburbs (Deluxe Edition) |
| Architecture in Helsinki | Moments Bends |
| Arctic Monkeys | Suck It and See |
| Art Brut | Brilliant! Tragic! |
| Asa | Beautiful Imperfection |
| Atlas Sound | Parallas |
| Atmosphere | The Family Sign |
| Austra | Feel It Break |
| Bahamas | Pink Strat |
| Battles | Gloss Drop |
| Beans | End It All |
| Beastie Boys | Hot Sauce Committee, Pt.2 |
| Beirut | The Rip Tide |
| Bell X1 | Bloodless Coup |
| Ben Folds | The Best Imitation of Myself: A Retrospective |
| Ben Harper | Give Till It's Gone |
| Ben Lee | Deeper Into Dream |
| Ben Ottewell | Shapes and Shadows |
| Ben Sollee | Inclusions |
| Beth DeSombre | At Home in This Town |
| Bibio | Mind Bokeh |
| Big Deal | Big Deal EP |
| Big Head Blues Club | 100 Years of Robert Johnson |
| Bjork | Biophilia |
| Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears | Scandalous |
| Black Lips | Arabia Mountain |
| Blind Boys of Alabama | Take the High Road |
| Blind Pilot | We are the Tide |
| Blitzen Trapper | American Goldwing |
| Blood Orange | Coastal Grooves |
| Bob Geldof | How to Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell |
| Bob Schneider | A Perfect Day |
| Bobby Long | A Winter's Tale |
| Body Language | Social Studies |
| Bombay Bicycle Club | A Different Kind of Fix |
| Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Wolfroy Goes to Town |
| Booker T. Jones | The Road to Memphis |
| Brandi Carlile | Live at Benaroya Hall |
| Brett Dennen | Loverboy |
| Bright Eyes | The People's Key |
| Broken Records | Let Me Come Home |
| Brother Sun | Brother Sun |
| Buddy Miller | The Majestic Silver Strings |
| Burlap to Cashmere | Burlap to Cashmere |
| Caitlin Rose | Own Side Now |
| Cake | Showroom of Compassion |
| Canon Blue | Rumspringa |
| CANT | Dreams Come True |
| Carolann Solebello | Threshold |
| Carter Tanton | Freeclouds |
| Cass McCombs | Humor Risk |
| Cass McCombs | Wit's End |
| Cassettes Won't Listen | EVINSPACEY |
| Caveman | CoCo Beware |
| Charles Bradley | No Time For Dreaming |
| Childish Gambino | Camp |
| Chris Isaak | Beyond the Sun |
| Chris Thile & Michael Daves | Sleep With One Eye Open |
| City and Colour | Little Hell |
| Clap Your Hands Say Yeah | Hysterical |
| Cloud Nothings | Cloud Nothings |
| Cold Cave | Cherish the Light Years |
| Coldplay | Mylo Xyloto |
| Cosy Sheridan | The Horse King |
| Cowboy Junkies | Demons: The Nomad Series Vol.2 |
| Crooked Fingers | Breaks in the Armor |
| CSS | La Liberacion |
| Cults | Cults |
| Cymbals Eat Guitars | Lenses Alien |
| Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | It's a Corporate World |
| Dan Mangan | Oh Fortune |
| Dan Zanes and Friends | Little Nut Tree |
| Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi | Rome |
| Daniel Martin Moore | In the Cool of the Day |
| David Bazan | Strange Negotiations |
| David Berkeley | Some Kind of Cure |
| David Bromberg | Use Me |
| David Lowery | The Palace Guards |
| David Wax Museum | Everything is Saved |
| Dawes | Nothing is Wrong |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Codes and Keys |
| Deer Tick | Divine Providence |
| Del the Funky Homosapien | The Golden Era |
| Devin | You're Mine EP |
| Diane Birch with the Phenomenal Handclap Band | The Velveteen Age |
| Diego Garcia | Laura |
| Dinosaur Bones | My Divider |
| DJ Shadow | The Less You Know, The Better |
| Dolorean | The Unfazed |
| Dom | Family of Love EP |
| Doomtree | No Kings |
| Drive-By Truckers | Go-Go Boots |
| Dum Dum Girls | Only in Dreams |
| Duncan Sheik | Covers 80s |
| Eddie Vedder | Ukulele Songs |
| Edie Brickell | Edie Brickell |
| Edwyn Collins | Losing Sleep |
| Eilen Jewell | Queen of the Minor Key |
| Elbow | Build a Rocket Boys! |
| Eleanor Friedberger | Last Summer |
| Eliza Doolittle | Eliza Doolittle |
| Eliza Gilkyson | Roses at the End of Time |
| EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints |
| Emmylou Harris | Hard Bargain |
| Erland and the Carnival | Nightingale |
| Escort | Escort |
| Etta James | The Dreamer |
| F*cked Up | David Comes to Life |
| Feist | Metals |
| Fergus & Geronimo | Unlearn |
| Firehorse | And So They Ran Faster... |
| Fleet Foxes | Helplessness Blues |
| Florence & The Machine | Ceremonials |
| Fool's Gold | Leave No Trace |
| Forrest Day | Forrest Day |
| Foster The People | Torches |
| Fountains of Wayne | Sky Full of Holes |
| Friendly Fires | Pala |
| Friends | EP |
| Fruit Bats | Tripper |
| Future Islands | On the Water |
| G. Love | Fixin' to Die |
| Gang Gang Dance | Mindkilla |
| Gardens & Villa | Gardens & Villa |
| Garland Jeffreys | The King of In Between |
| Gary Clark Jr. | The Bright Lights EP |
| Generationals | Actor-Caster |
| Gil Scott-Heron/Jamie xx | We're New Here |
| Gillian Welch | The Harrow & The Harvest |
| Girls | Father, Son, Holy Ghost |
| Givers | In Light |
| Glen Campbell | Ghost on the Canvas |
| Gomez | Whatever's On Your Mind |
| Gorillaz | The Fall |
| Greg Brown | Freak Flag |
| Gregg Allman | Low Country Blues |
| Grouplove | Never Trust a Happy Song |
| Guided By Voices | Let's Go Eat the Factory |
| Guineafowl | Hello Anxiety EP |
| Guy Clark | Songs and Stories |
| Haley Bonar | Golder |
| Halloween, Alaska | All Night the Calls Came In |
| Handsome Furs | Sound Kapital |
| Hayes Carll | KMAG YOYO |
| Hercules & Love Affair | Blue Songs |
| Hooray For Earth | True Loves |
| Hot Tuna | Steady as She Goes |
| Hugh Blumenfeld | Dad |
| Hugh Laurie | Let Them Talk |
| Hunx & His Punx | Too Young To Be In Love |
| Hurricane Bells | Tides and Tales |
| I'm From Barcelona | Forever Today |
| Idiot Glee | Paddywacking |
| Imelda May | Mayhem |
| Indigo Girls | Beauty Queen Sister |
| Iron & Wine | Kiss Each Other Clean |
| Ivan & Alyosha | Fathers Be Kind EP |
| Ivy | All Hours |
| J Mascis | Several Shades of Why |
| Jacuzzi Boys | Glazin' |
| Jake Shimabukuro | Peace Love Ukulele |
| James Blake | Enough Thunder EP |
| James Blake | James Blake |
| James Maddock | Wake Up and Dream |
| James McCartney | Available Light |
| James Vincent McMorrow | Early in the Morning |
| Jane's Addiction | The Great Escape Artist |
| Janet Bates | The Little Spinner |
| Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit | Here We Rest |
| Jeff Bridges | Jeff Bridges |
| Jeffrey Lewis | A Turn in the Dream-Songs |
| Jens Lekman | An Argument With Myself EP |
| Jesse Harris | The Secret Sun |
| Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter | Marble Son |
| Jessica Lea Mayfield | Tell Me |
| Jill & John | A Day at the Pass |
| Jimmy Cliff | Sacred Fire EP |
| Jim Stricklan | Blues for Stephen Foster |
| Joe Crookston | Darkling and the Bluebird Jubilee |
| Joe Henry | Reverie |
| John Doe | Keeper |
| John Hiatt | Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns |
| John Maus | We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves |
| John McCutcheon | Woody Guthrie's America |
| John Prine | The Singing Mailman Delivers |
| John Vanderslice | White Wilderness |
| John Wesley Harding | The Sound of His Own Voice |
| Joker | The Vision |
| Jolie Holland | Pint of Blood |
| Jonathan Byrd | Cackalack |
| Joseph Arthur | The Graduation Ceremony |
| Josh Ritter | To the Yet Unknowing World EP |
| Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations | Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations |
| Joss Stone | LP1 |
| Jubilants | Jubilants EP |
| Junior Boys | It's All True |
| Jupe Jupe | Reduction in Drag |
| Justice | Audio, Video, Disco |
| Kaiser Chiefs | The Future is Medieval |
| Kasabian | Velociraptor! |
| Kasey Chambers | Little Bird |
| Kate Bush | 50 Words For Snow |
| Kathyrn Calder | Bright and Vivid |
| Katie Costello | Lamplight |
| Katie Herzig | The Waking Sleep |
| kd lang and The Siss Boom Bang | Sing It Loud |
| Keb Mo | The Reflection |
| Keren Ann | 101 |
| Korallreven | An Album By Korallreven |
| Kris Delmhorst | Cars |
| Kurt Elling | The Gate |
| Kurt Vile | Smoke Ring For My Halo |
| La Vida Boheme | Nuestra |
| Ladytron | Gravity the Seducer |
| Laura Marling | A Creature I Don't Know |
| Laura Veirs | Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs For Children |
| Let's Wrestle | Nursing Home |
| Lia Ices | Grown Unknown |
| Liam Finn | Fomo |
| Lifeguards | Waving at the Astronauts |
| Lindi Ortega | Little Red Boots |
| Lindsey Buckingham | Lindsey Buckingham |
| Lisa Hannigan | Passenger |
| Lissie | Covered Up With Flowers EP |
| Little Dragon | Ritual Union |
| Little Red | Midnight Remember |
| Little Scream | The Golden Record |
| Lloyd Cole | Broken Record |
| Loney Dear | Hall Music |
| Los Campesinos! | Hello Sadness |
| Los Lonely Boys | Rockpango |
| Love Inks | E.S.P. |
| Low | C'mon |
| Lucinda Williams | Blessed |
| M83 | Hurry Up, We're Dreaming |
| Madeleine Peyroux | Standin' on the Rooftop |
| Male Bonding | Endless Now |
| Man Man | Life Fantastic |
| Manchester Orchestra | Simple Math |
| Maria Taylor | Overlook |
| Mariachi El Bronx | Mariachi El Bronx |
| Marianne Faithfull | Horses and High Heels |
| Mason Jennings | Minnesota |
| Mates of State | Mountaintops |
| Matthew Sweet | Modern Art |
| Mayer Hawthorne | How Do You Do |
| Mazes | A Thousand Heys |
| Megafaun | Megafun |
| Memory Tapes | Piano Player |
| Memoryhouse | The Years |
| Metronomy | The English Riviera |
| Middle Brother | Middle Brother |
| Mike Doughty | Yes and Also Yes |
| Mike Watt | Hyphenated-Man |
| Milagres | Glowing Mouth |
| Millionyoung | Replicants |
| Mister Heavenly | Out of Love |
| Moby | Destroyed |
| Mocean Worker | Candygram For Mowo! |
| Modern Skirts | Gramahawk |
| Motopony | Motopony |
| Mount Moriah | Mount Moriah |
| mr. Gnome | Madness in Miniature |
| My Brightest Diamond | All Things Will Unwind |
| My Morning Jacket | Circuital |
| Naming the Twins | Sweet Transitions |
| Natalia Zukerman | Gas Station Roses |
| Neil Young | A Treasure |
| Neon Indian | Era Extrana |
| Nerves Junior | As Bright As Your Night Light |
| Nick Lowe | The Old Magic |
| Nicole Atkins | Mondo Amore |
| Niki & The Dove | The Drummer |
| Nikki Jean | Pennies in a Jar |
| Nikki Lane | Walk of Shame |
| Noah and the Whale | Last Night on Earth |
| Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds |
| Norah Jones | ...Featuring |
| North Mississippi Allstars | Keys to the Kingdom |
| NRBQ | Keep This Love Goin' |
| Nurses | Dracula |
| O'Death | Outside |
| Obits | Moody, Standard and Poor |
| Oh Land | Oh Land |
| Okkervil River | I Am Very Far |
| Old 97's | The Grand Theatre Volume Two |
| Ollabelle | Neon Blue Bird |
| Other Lives | Tamer Animals |
| Over the Rhine | The Long Surrender |
| Panda Bear | Tomboy |
| Papercuts | Fading Parade |
| Parts & Labor | Constant Future |
| Patrick Wolf | Lupercalia |
| Paul Simon | So Beautiful or So What |
| Pegi Young | Bracing For Impact |
| Peter Gabriel | New Blood |
| Peter Murphy | Ninth |
| Peter, Bjorn & John | Gimme Some |
| Phantogram | Nightlife EP |
| PJ Harvey | Let England Shake |
| Planningtorock | The Breaks |
| Portugal. The Man | In the Mountain In the Cloud |
| R.E.M. | Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011 |
| R.E.M. | Collapse Into Now |
| Rachael Yamagata | Chesapeake |
| Radiohead | The King of Limbs |
| Rainbow Arabia | Boys and Diamonds |
| Randy Newman | The Randy Newman Songbook Vol2. |
| Raphael Saadiq | Stone Rollin' |
| Ray Davies | See My Friends |
| Real Estate | It's Real |
| Rebecca Pidgeon | Slingshot |
| Red Molly | Light in the Sky |
| Reptar | Oblangle EP |
| Ringo Death Starr | Colour Trip |
| Robbie Robertson | How to Become Clairvoyant |
| Robert Earl Keen | Ready For Confetti |
| Ron Sexsmith | Long Player Late Bloomer |
| Royal Bangs | Flux Outside |
| RUNA | Stretched on Your Grave |
| Ry Cooder | Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down |
| Ryan Adams | Ashes & Fire |
| S.C.U.M. | Again Into Eyes |
| Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside | Dirty Radio |
| Sam Roberts | Collider |
| Sarah Jarosz | Follow Me Down |
| Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion | Bright Examples |
| Say Hi | Um, Uh Oh |
| SBTRKT | SBTRKT |
| Scala & Kolacny Brothers | Scala & Kolacny Brothers |
| Scars on 45 | Give Me Something EP |
| Sean Rowe | Magic |
| Shabazz Palaces | Black Up |
| Sharon Van Etten | Tramp |
| Shelby Lynne | Revelation Road |
| Sigur Ros | Inni |
| Slaid Cleaves | Live at the Horseshoe Lounge |
| Sleeper Agent | Celabrasion |
| Slow Club | Paradise |
| Smith Westerns | Dye It Blonde |
| Social Distortion | Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes |
| Socks & Chimes | I Love You Overall |
| Solomon Burke & De Dijk | Hold on Tight |
| Sondre Lerche | Sondre Lerche |
| Sonny and The Sunsets | Hit After Hit |
| Spanish Prisoners | Gold Fools |
| Speech DeBelle | Freedom of Speech |
| St. Vincent | Strange Mercy |
| Stan Rogers | The Very Best |
| Starf*cker | Reptilians |
| Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks | Mirror Traffic |
| Steve Cropper | Dedicated |
| Steve Earle | I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive |
| Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers | Rare Bird Alert |
| Steven Bernstein's MTO | MTO Plays Sly |
| Strange Boys | Live Music |
| Superheavy | Superheavy |
| Surfer Blood | Tarot Classics EP |
| Susan Werner | Kicking the Beehive |
| Talib Kweli | Gutter Rainbows |
| Teddy Thompson | Bella |
| Tedeschi Trucks Band | Revelator |
| Telekinesis | 12 Desperate Straight Lines |
| Thao and Mirah | Thao and Mirah |
| The Antlers | Burst Apart |
| The Apache Relay | American Nomad |
| The Autumn Defense | Once Around |
| The Beets | Let the Poison Out |
| The Belle Brigade | The Belle Brigade |
| The Bewitched Hands | Birds & Drums |
| The Big Pink | Future Love |
| The Black Keys | El Camino |
| The Bo-Keys | Got to Get Back! |
| The Bridge | National Bohemian |
| The Cave Singers | No Witch |
| The Chain Gang of 1974 | Wayward Fire |
| The Civil Wars | Barton Hollow |
| The Damnwells | No One Listens to the Band Anymore |
| The Decemberists | The King is Dead |
| The Decemberists | An iTunes Session |
| The Decemberists | Long Live The King EP |
| The Disciplines | Virgins of Menace |
| The Drums | Portamento |
| The Duke Spirit | Bruiser |
| The Elected | Bury Me in MY Rings |
| The Felice Brothers | Celebration, Florida |
| The Field | Looping State of Mind |
| The Gaddabouts | The Gaddabouts |
| The Gourds | Old Mad Joy |
| The Happen-ins | The Happen-ins |
| The Head and The Heart | The Head and The Heart |
| The Horrible Crowes | Elsie |
| The Horrors | Skying |
| The Hours | I Wanna Be Happy EP |
| The Jayhawks | Mockingbird Time |
| The Kickdrums | Meet Your Ghost |
| The Kills | Blood Pressures |
| The Kooks | Junk of the Heart |
| The Ladybug Transistor | Clutching Stems |
| The Lisps | Are We at the Movies? |
| The Lonely Forest | Arrows |
| The Low Anthem | Smart Flesh |
| The Luyas | Too Beautiful to Work |
| The Meat Puppets | Lollipop |
| The Middle East | I Want That You Are Always Happy |
| The Mountain Goats | All Eternals Deck |
| The Naked and Famous | Passive Me, Aggressive You |
| The One AM Radio | Heaven is Attached By a Slender Thread |
| The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | Belong |
| The Poison Tree | The Poison Tree |
| The Rapture | The Grace of Your Love |
| The Raveonettes | Raven In The Grave |
| The Revelations | Concrete Blues |
| The Rosebuds | Loud Planes Fly Low |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage | Departing |
| The Shivers | More |
| The Smithereens | Smithereens 2011 |
| The Soft Moon | The Soft Moon |
| The Streets | Computers and Blues |
| The Strokes | Angles |
| The Vaccines | What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? |
| The Veils | Troubles of the Brain EP |
| The War on Drugs | Slave Ambient |
| The Watson Twins | Night Covers |
| The Weeknd | Thursday |
| The Wilderness of Manitoba | When You Left the Fire |
| The Wombats | This Modern Glitch |
| The Wood Brothers | Smoke Ring Halo |
| Theophilus London | Timez Are Weird These Days |
| They Might Be Giants | Join Us |
| Thievery Corporation | Culture of Fear |
| Those Darlins | Screws Get Loose |
| Thurston Moore | Demolished Thoughts |
| Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band | Tim Robbins and the Rogues Gallery Band |
| Timber Timbre | Creep on Creepin' on |
| Times New Viking | Dancer Equired |
| Tinariwhen | Tassili |
| Tom Waits | Bad as Me |
| Tori Amos | Night of Hunters |
| Toro Y Moi | Underneath the Pine |
| Totes For Goats | Burning Bridget Cleary |
| Trombone Shorty | For True |
| tUnE-yArDs | w h o k i l l |
| TV on the Radio | Nine Kinds of Light |
| Twin Sister | In Heaven |
| Ty Segall | Goodbye Bread |
| Tyler Ramsey | The Valley Wind |
| Tyler, The Creator | Goblin |
| Typhoon | A New Kind of House |
| UNKLE | Only the Lonely EP |
| Unknown Mortal Orchestra | Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| Van Hunt | What Were You Hoping For? |
| Various Artists | Johnny Would Love This...A Tribute to John Martyn |
| Various Artists | Note of Hope |
| Various Artists | The Bridge School Concerts 25th Anniversary Edition |
| Various Artists | A Nod to Bob 2 |
| Vetiver | The Errant Charm |
| VHS or Beta | Diamonds and Death |
| Wanda Jackson | The Party Ain't Over |
| Warren Haynes | Man In Motion |
| Washed Out | Within And Without |
| Waters | Out in the Light |
| We Are Augustines | Rise Ye Sunken Ships |
| We Were Promised Jetpacks | In the Pit of the Stomach |
| Weekend | Red |
| When Saints Go Machine | Konkylie |
| White Denim | D |
| Wild Beasts | Smother |
| Wild Flag | Wild Flag |
| Will Hoge | Number Seven |
| William Fitzsimmons | Gold in the Shadow |
| Willie Nile | The Innocent Ones |
| Wire | Red Barked Tree |
| Wise Blood | These Wings EP |
| WU LYF | Go Tell Fire to the Mountain |
| Xylos | Xylos |
| YACHT | Shangri-La |
| Yael Naim | She Was a Boy |
| Young Buffalo | Young Von Prettylips |
| Youth Lagoon | The Year of Hibernation |
| Yuck | Yuck |
| Zee Avi | Ghostbird |
| Ziggy Marley | Wild and Free |
| Zola Jesus | Conatus |
| Zomby | Dedication |
