The best music on the web this week.
Aloe Blacc
Channeling Bill Withers turns out to be a good idea for Aloe Blacc. His great new song, I Need A Dollar is featured as the theme song in the HBO series How To Make It Big In America.
Listen at Stones Throw

The Morning Benders
Heartbreaking indie-pop from a San Francisco band whose debut album Big Echoes was produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and is out soon. Watch the winsome video performance of Excuses as your intro and fall in love.
Discover at Nialler9

Japayork
Is this 23 year-old graphic designer/videographer going to be the latest electro pop poster boy? A buzz is developing online for sure.
http://www.myspace.com/japayork

NWA – the explicit version
A version of the gangsta rappers’ infamous debut Straight Outta Compton consisting entirely of just the rude words.
Download at Ni9e.com