Half a year and nothing else

[vovat]

countblastula did a listing of his top albums, movies, and books for the first half of 2006. I would like to follow suit, but I haven't seen any new movies or read any new books this year, and I don't feel like going back and listing the older ones that were new to me. So this is just going to be albums. Oh, and I'll also add concerts.

New albums in 2006:

1. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
2. The Ditty Bops - Moon Over the Freeway
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4. The Minus 5 - Self-titled (AKA The Gun Album)
5. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
6. Frank Black - Fastman Raiderman
7. Cracker - Greenland

And even though it isn't an album, The Last Car's demo CD deserves a mention.


Old albums I first heard this year:

1. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
2. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
3. Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
4. The Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
5. The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees


Concerts:

1. The Minus 5 (3/29)
2. Neko Case (4/8)
3. Laura Cantrell (2/11)
4. They Might Be Giants (5/12)
5. Belle and Sebastian (3/4)
6. Corn Mo at a burlesque show (2/19)
7. TMBG (1/1)