Podbit · Last Podcast On The Left
Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 is back with her first single in four years. 'Revolution,' produced by Ash Gordon, is out on all streaming platforms and is the lead single from an upcoming album. The boys urge listeners to pause the episode, go listen to it, and add it to their summer playlists.
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Henry's first question to Alaska is about supplements, which she answers with characteristic wit — she works out reluctantly, hates every second, drinks plant-based protein, and recently added creatine, which she suspects is 'probably just placebo powder' but finds motivating anyway. The conversation pivots quickly to the White House UFC watch party held on the same grounds as the January 6th rally, which featured a mechanical bull, audience fights, and a bald eagle on a chain. Alaska's verdict: 'Idiocracy has become a documentary.' Ed digs into the detail that President Camacho from Idiocracy is actually a more morally coherent leader than the current president, since he listens to his advisors and learns from mistakes. The hosts then quiz Alaska, as a drag professional, on her read of Trump's makeup and hair — she notes it looks 'shoddily applied' and suggests the hair system probably takes the longest, with Henry confirming from a personal encounter that Trump pawed through Green Room food without eating any and smelled 'like a garbage dump.'
Alaska Thunderfuck 5000's new single 'Revolution,' produced by Ash Gordon, is her first music release in four years.
Reggae didn't emerge from thin air — it was built layer by layer from mento in the 1940s, ska in the late 1950s, and rocksteady in the mid-1960s. Each stage absorbed new influences, from transistor radios picking up Miami R&B to the distinctive 2-and-4 rhythmic accent that defines the genre.
Before hip-hop existed, Jamaican DJs were already doing it. Electricity spreading across Jamaica enabled mobile 'sound systems,' and DJs developed toasting — speaking and singing over recorded music — a tradition that DJ Kool Herc brought from Kingston to the Bronx at age 12.
Joe Higgs is reggae's great unsung hero. This Kingston musician took teenage Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer under his wing and taught them how to sing, write songs, and make music — at a time when most artists would have focused on their own careers. Without him, the Wailers probably just would have sucked.
Reggae archivist Roger Steffens' analogy says it all: Bob Marley was reggae's Martin Luther King Jr., making the music universally palatable; Peter Tosh was its Malcolm X, inserting fierce militant political energy. Together, they gave the Wailers a depth no single voice could achieve alone.
King Tubby built his own hardware from cast-off recording gear to strip vocals and create dubbed-out instrumental reggae — essentially inventing electronic music in Kingston before Kraftwerk did it in Germany. The dubplate he created became the raw material for DJs to toast over, seeding hip-hop.
Two days before the 1976 Smile Jamaica anti-violence concert, gunmen shot Bob Marley in the chest and shoulder, shot Rita Marley, and wounded two others. He showed up and played anyway. The concert had already drawn accusations that Marley was a tool of the PNP government — a charge that frustrated him deeply.
Peter Tosh's killer was a man Tosh had taken in after prison, giving him shelter and food. The man repaid that generosity by holding Tosh hostage, torturing him for money, and shooting him in the head. It is one of the most brutal betrayals in music history.
The Windrush Generation brought Caribbean music to London after World War II, and reggae's 2-and-4 rhythm lodged itself deep in British culture — giving birth to ska bands like The Specials, pop acts like UB40, and even punk. Johnny Rotten was a reggae fan, and Public Image Limited has the dub influence to prove it.
Reggaetón didn't come from nowhere. It emerged from underground Spanish-language reggae-rap scenes in Panama and Puerto Rico, drawing directly on Jamaican reggae's rhythms and attitude. The line from Kingston to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl performance is a straight one.
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