G. Love & Special Sauce

No use fronting: We love G. Love. We love him for consistently living up to the lo-fi blues/hip-hop swagger of his 1994 debut (last year's lackluster collab with the Avett Brothers notwithstanding). We love him as the affable, attractive white boy who at first was in love with someone else's music and later found his own voice. We love him despite the fact that he paved the way for beach-pop king Jack Johnson (who he discovered) who paved the way for beach pop-knockoff Donavon Frankenreiter. We love him because he did it first, when we were impressionable, and now our quota is full.