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Daddy Yankee - Gasolina 2004

"Gasolina" was released as the lead single from Puerto Rican rapper Daddy Yankee's 2004 album Barrio Fino in the US in October 2004. By November 6, WSKQ-FM in New York City reported "Gasolina" in their top 10 rotation, and WRTO-FM in Florida said the song was their number one most-played track. It entered the US Billboard Hot 100 chart a week later, rising to number 32 in January 2005. "Gasolina" was a hit in North America and the Caribbean, gaining Daddy Yankee popularity among Latino mainstream music fans. In July 2005, "Gasolina" was released as a single in the UK, eventually earning a Silver certification in March 2019. Australia saw the single enter their charts in late January 2006 during their summer season, rising to number 12. "Gasolina" was the first reggaeton song to be nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Glory sings the line "dame más gasolina", although she is not credited.

In 2015, the song was ranked number nine on the "50 Greatest Latin Songs of All Time" list according to Billboard. In 2018, it was ranked number 38 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Latin Pop Songs. In 2017, it was included on Billboard's "12 Best Dancehall & Reggaeton Choruses of the 21st Century" at number eight. In 2021, it was ranked number 50 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and a year later it was ranked at the first place on their 2022 "100 Greatest Reggaeton Songs of All Time" list. In 2023, "Gasolina" was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The song was used in the 2023 movie Fast X / Fast & Furious 10.

"Gasolina" received a total of 77,4% yes votes!

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based on the video for ROCKETMAN's remix of "World's End Dancehall" (AKA breakdancing Miku) (2022)

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Cochise announces headlining WHY ALWAYS ME? World Tour kicking off in February

Fresh off the release of his fourth studio album WHY ALWAYS ME?, Florida rap star Cochise has just announced his forthcoming headlining World Tour – kicking off in February, 2025. Presale tickets will be on sale starting at 12:00pm EST on 11/20 (PW: WHYALWAYSME), while general on sale tickets go live starting at 10:00am Local Time on 11/22 (ticket link here). Taking Houston rapper TisaKorean on the road with him as an opener, Cochise will be embarking throughout North America during the tour's first leg, ending in his home-state of Florida on 3/30, before linking up with buzzing UK rapper Len for the majority of the European leg – concluding in Poland on 5/6. The recently-released WHY ALWAYS ME? arrived in October backed by a string of singles that included "GOOGLE ME", “YOSHIMITSU” (40M+ Streams), and the Aminé-assisted "NASTY". Boasting other features from Veeze and Anycia, WHY ALWAYS ME? served as a championship album celebrating a new era for Cochise — marking his first LP since 2022's THE INSPECTION and his appearance on the 2022 XXL Freshman cover. With production from BYNX (Drake, Travis Scott), Supah Mario (Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert), CHASETHEMONEY (J. Cole, Juice WRLD), and Lex Luger (Kanye West, Chief Keef), WHY ALWAYS ME? is a nebula of intergalactic opulence, melting into Cochise's hypnotizing vocals and sky-diving delivery.

Hailing from Palm Bay, Florida, Cochise is known for a kaleidoscopic sound that blends elements of Jamaican dancehall, hip-hop, and trap with animated lyricism punctuated by deep-cut references to anime, sports, and pop culture. Hailed for his high-flying vocal acrobatics and hazy, ethereal production, he exploded onto the scene with his 2021 major label debut Benbow Crescent, which featured the RIAA Certified Gold hit track “Hatchback” (400M Streams). Cochise has since sold out a solo headlining world tour and collaborated with the likes of Lil Yachty, Chief Keef, Denzel Curry, Juicy J, Teezo Touchdown, Lil B, and more.

HEADLINING WHY ALWAYS ME? WORLD TOUR KICKING OFF IN FEBRUARY – TICKETS ON SALE 11/22 TICKETS

ARTIST PRE-SALE ON SALE 11/20 @ 12:00PM EST (PASSWORD: WHYALWAYSME) PRE-SALE

WHY ALWAYS ME? Tour – North America Dates: 02/13 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts 02/14 – New York City, NY – Irving Plaza 02/15 – Washington, DC – Union Stage 02/17 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair 02/19 – Montreal, QC – Le Studio TD 02/20 – Toronto, ON – The Axis Club 02/22 – Detroit, MI – El Club 02/23 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop 02/25 – Columbus, OH – Skully's 02/28 – Chicago, IL – Avondale Music Hall 03/01 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line 03/03 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theater 03/06 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile 03/07 – Portland, OR – Star Theater 03/09 – Sacramento, CA – Harlow's 03/11 – San Fransisco, CA – The Independent 03/13 – Las Vegas, NV – The Beverly Theater 03/14 – Los Angeles, CA – The Regent Theater 03/15 – San Diego, CA – SOMA 03/16 – Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory 03/18 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom 03/22 – Austin, TX – Mohawk 03/23 – Dallas, TX – Studio at the Factory 03/25 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Midtown 03/28 – Atlanta, GA – Center Stage 03/29 – Orlando, FL – Beacham 03/30 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live

WHY ALWAYS ME? Tour – Europe Dates: 04/19 – Dublin, IE – Green Room 04/20 – Manchester, UK – Club Academy 04/21 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Warehouse 04/23 – London, UK – Scala 04/25 – Brussels, BE – Botanique – Grand Salon 04/26 – Paris, FR – Trabendo 04/27 – Cologne, DE – Luxor 04/29 – Zurich, CH – Dynamo 05/02 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso Tolhuistuin 05/04 – Prague, CZ – Futurum 05/05 – Berlin, DE – Hole44 05/06 – Warsaw, PL – Hydrozagadka

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Spice, Sean Paul, Shaggy- Go Down Deh (2022)

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Nilüfer Yanya Thrills Brooklyn Steel with New Music

Nilüfer Yanya – Brooklyn Steel – October 1, 2024

British artist Nilüfer Yanya took the Brooklyn Steel stage at 9:40 on Tuesday night. By 9:45, she had dabbled in at least four different genres: an ethereal sparkle of ambient evolved into an angular electronica, giving way to the funk of a plunky bass, an explosion of electric guitar rock and roll, Yanya then belting the indie-pop chorus, eventually joined by an energized blare of near-jazz saxophone. The song was “Method Actor,” a track off Yanya’s brand-new full-length of the same name, and it established the tone for a set that was stylistically restless while remaining coherently focused.   

Yanya expertly led her band through most of the new album plus some selections off her sophomore LP, 2022’s Painless. Almost every song contained layers of hidden complexity. “Like I Say (I Runaway)” with earworms eating earworms, clever springs of guitar and drums; “Ready for Sun (Touch)” feeling like multiple songs in one — lovely singer-songwriter in off-kilter tension with an almost glitch-pop, the stage bathed in an ominous anything-but-sunny yellow; “Trouble” unfolding overlapping rhythms of vocals, drums and electronics with an adhesive of low-end bass helping build to a dramatic orchestral swell. 

Yanya gave her strong supporting band a break on “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” the room falling quiet and still for her sparse guitar-and-vocal, singing, “I’m tired / From all these dreams.” That set up a three-song chill-down middle with the R&B slow-burn “Call It Love” and the loveliness of “Binding.” Things closed out strong with two from Painless: The band almost sounding like Radiohead on “The Dealer” as Yanya aptly sang, “Patience, there she goes / Cadence set in stone,” setting up the final song, “Stabilise,” with fuzzy guitar, an addictive beat, dancehall bass and the method actor, Nilüfer Yanya, inhabiting each role perfectly. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

(Nilüfer Yanya plays Royale in Boston tonight.)

Photos courtesy of Savannah Lauren | @savannahlaurenphoto

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it kinda bums me out how there are like. no genres in popular music anymore. when i was a kid the hot 100 had rock, hip hop, country, techno, R&B, reggaeton, dancehall etc all coexisting in the same year end chart. and it definitely was not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and had its own problems -- there was this almost adversarial relationship between genres sometimes that was typically full of racism tbh, especially in the contemporary rock/hip hop divide.

and in turn i think there are good things about the genre-blended moment we live in. i think genres are better off learning from each other than staying entirely blocked off. but the thing is rn the charts are dominated by pop songs that are just genre soup that take a bit of everything from different genres and the results are usually very middling and dull. and the inherent problem of this is not so much the genre soup itself but the fact that more hardline rock/hip hop/R&B etc doesnt chart at all anymore.

like okay. let's look at the number ones on the year end chart from the aughts: 2000/country (breathe by faith hill) 2001/rock (hanging by a moment by lifehouse, also lol?) 2002/rock (how you remind me, again lol) 2003/rap (in da club) 2004/r&b (yeah!) 2005/r&b (we belong together) 2006/pop (bad day. lol) 2007/r&b (irreplaceable) 2008/hip hop (low)

you get the picture. and throughout all these charts, there's a very even mix of genres. it feels as if for at least the last five years, it's been almost entirely pop, and genre mush pop at that.

four hip hop songs went number one in all of 2022, and one of them was by jack harlow. a hip hop song hasn't gone to number one since august 2022 -- almost two years ago. it feels like we've crossed over so much that the genres themselves have been neutralized a little.

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Over the course of a long career, the American singer Marlena Shaw moved from jazz to soul and back again, searching for settings that would best enhance her fine voice. In later decades she commanded the allegiance of the British fans of the rare-groove movement, who rediscovered and particularly cherished her version, released in 1969, of a much recorded song called California Soul.

Shaw, who has died aged 81, made her first stage appearance at the Apollo theatre in Harlem, New York, when she was 10 years old. Billie Holiday was still alive and Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington were other inescapable influences on a jazz-inclined teenage singer seemingly destined to work with big bands in dancehalls and smaller groups in nightclubs. In her later years she became familiar with the sound of hip-hop artists basing their hits on samples from her singles and album tracks.

Shaw’s recording of California Soul, a song written by Valerie Simpson and Nickolas Ashford, popped up in Gang Starr’s Check the Technique and Stereo MCs’ Sofisticated. It was also used in American TV commercials for Dockers shoes, KFC fast food and Dodge trucks, and in 2022 it was awarded an official gold record by the British Phonographic Industry.

Born Marlina Burgess in New Rochelle, New York, she showed musical talent from an early age and was given her first opportunity to take the stage in 1952 by her uncle, Jimmy Burgess, a trumpeter and bandleader who was performing at the Apollo. It was through his tuition that she acquired her understanding of jazz phrasing, while her mother encouraged her to study music at New York State Teachers’ College in Potsdam, a small town close to the Canadian border.

But she failed to complete the course, marrying young and bringing up five children before picking up the threads of a performing career that had barely begun. There were more false starts. In 1963 she missed an appearance at the Newport jazz festival with the trumpeter Howard McGhee after an argument with the musicians, and an attack of nerves ruined an audition with the great talent scout John Hammond, who had signed Holiday and Bob Dylan, among many others.

But in 1966, while singing at the Playboy Club in Chicago, she was signed up by the locally based Chess label, the home of many popular soul and R&B performers. Her first single was a vocal version of Joe Zawinul’s gospel-style tune Mercy Mercy Mercy, which had been an instrumental hit for Cannonball Adderley.

In 1968 Shaw toured Europe with Count Basie’s orchestra, involving the bandleader in an amusing routine as she improvised new words to Won’t You Come Home, Bill Bailey? It was while appearing with Basie at the Sands hotel in Las Vegas that she decided to make the gambling capital her home, moving there in 1970.

A contract with the Blue Note label led to a series of albums in a smooth soul-jazz style, including one recorded live at the Montreux jazz festival. The title and content of another album, Who Is This Bitch, Anyway?, indicated a desire to challenge the then-current popularity of the sexually explicit singer Millie Jackson.

A move to the Columbia label in 1977 saw her transforming Carole King and Gerry Goffin’s Go Away Little Girl, originally recorded by Bobby Vee, from a lovelorn ballad into a statement of female independence introduced by a lengthy rap directed at a feckless, workshy lover: “I figure if I’ve got to get up and go to work every day, then every able-bodied in the household is supposed to get up and go … If for some reason you feel that you can no longer be the man you were at the beginning of our relationship, then I’ve got this one thing to lay on you, my sweet. Go away, little boy …” But eventually the attitude softens, and after a seduction scene the song fades out on a note of surrender: “You think you can get a job by Thursday? You promise? Then you might as well stay … Don’t go away … ”

It became one of her most popular songs in live performance, the prefatory rap acquiring extra twists, turns, and layers of sardonic saltiness. At the New Morning club in Paris in 2010, the man in the song had become someone who had picked her up at an airport giftshop, its final scene acted out with elaborately dramatised hand gestures, smiles, laughter and a winning command of her audience.

An elegant presence on the concert stage, she sang with a symphony orchestra in New Zealand and toured for four years with Sammy Davis Jr. There were further recordings for the Verve, Concord and South Bay labels, and in 1989 a duet with Joe Williams, another former Basie singer, on an update of the old Louis Jordan song Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby earned her a Grammy nomination.

Shaw ceased all professional activity in 2016, retiring to her home in Las Vegas. Her survivors include her daughters April and Marla, a son, Robert, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

🔔 Marlena Shaw (Marlina Burgess), singer, born 22 September 1942; died 19 January 2024

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Do you have good albums no one knows about to recommend? You have great taste :)

thanks

I have no idea what people know about because I'm rather out of touch music-wise

so to narrow things down I'll recommend good albums 1) from the last 10-15 years and 2) from my neck of the woods (and Norway) and 3) possibly not mainstream?? idk!

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🇬🇧 indie alternative from the UK

The Maccabees: Given to the Wild (2011)

Easy Life: Maybe In Another Life (2022)

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🇫🇷 electro from France

The Blaze: Dancehall (2018)

NTO: Apnea (2021)

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🇧🇪 fun pop from Belgium

Puggy: Something You Might Like (2010)

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🇳🇴 mystical pop from Norway

Susanne Sundfør: Ten Love Songs (2015)

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🇩🇪🇳🇱 calm instrumental from Germany and The Netherlands

Nils Frahm: Spaces (2013)

Joep Beving: Solipsism (2015)

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💖 just plugging my favorite band because I can

Elbow: The Best Of (2017)