{"id":395226,"date":"2010-03-05T17:21:50","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-05-friday-music-blogging-aloe-blacc\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T17:21:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:21:50","slug":"friday-music-blogging-aloe-blacc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/395226","title":{"rendered":"Friday music blogging: Aloe Blacc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby David Roberts <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aloeblacc.com\/home\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new HBO show <a href=\"http:\/\/howtomakeitinamerica.com\/\">How to Make It In America<\/a> is pretty good, but by far the best thing about it is the opening credit sequence. When I first saw it I thought it was soundtracked with a particularly righteous soul song from the &#8216;70s, maybe a Bill Withers b-side dug out of the crates. It&#8217;s one of the very few credit sequences I&#8217;ve watched twice in a row on purpose.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To my surprise and delight, it turns out I was wrong: Aloe Blacc&#8217;s &#8220;I Need a Dollar&#8221; is the first single off his upcoming album Good Things, due from the Stones Throw label later this year. (While you&#8217;re waiting you could pick up his 2006 debut album <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/gristmagazine\/detail\/B000EUMKEA\">Shine Through<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, this is America&#8217;s national anthem for 2010. No other song matters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-04-supermarket-medleys-are-a-fruit-smashing-success\/\">Supermarket medleys are a fruit-smashing success<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-01-the-latest-musical-trend-is-annoying-the-senate-into-climate-act\/\">The latest musical trend is annoying the Senate into climate action<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-02-13-friday-music-blogging-midlake\/\">Friday music blogging: Midlake<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=289f0747199faae6d0343dc98d08e263&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=289f0747199faae6d0343dc98d08e263&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Roberts The new HBO show How to Make It In America is pretty good, but by far the best thing about it is the opening credit sequence. When I first saw it I thought it was soundtracked with a particularly righteous soul song from the &#8216;70s, maybe a Bill Withers b-side dug out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}