The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)

This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts, Warmduscher and Faderdaze. Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!), Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings, sad indie manic pixie dream girls, sabotaging engagement farming, one-shot live versions, too much sault, grand opening/grand closing, outrageous fortune, describing posts and getting way too excited about paying Netflix to watch bad NFL games at Christmas.

Next week: Michael Kiwanuka | Thunderpussy | Vypers
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout, shot deserts, blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it’s 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-sports, styles make fights, create-a-player Grizzlies, Sixers Process Karma is undefeated, Beeso is basically Nick Nurse, blame it on the Boogie, don’t look directly into the East, Wagner goes Valkryies on the Lakers, places to plant your Flagg, cricket and admin, the Australia A’ification of NBA All Star, moral choices in EPL fandom, seeing the Wood for the Forest, sporting polygamy and police harassment.

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This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied to by the internet, Morningside for life, words matter, unproductive foraging, more bold evolutions and the art of the play-out in-joke.

Next week: Faderdaze | A. Swayze & The Ghosts | Warmduscher
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This week in sport: live sausagemaking, started at the bottom now we here, Thursday scaries, unintended consequences, duelling stats, Traede Young, the Cavs already have the 1 seed, Wemby ruins narratives, Rudy reinforces them, Dub mixes, washed references, strength of schedule, escaping to BlueSky, arguing with yourself, non-starter starter packs, Le Sulk, Mbappe having a mbad time and the difficulty of the three-man weave.

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This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre, Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer.
Also: reanimating your dead time, I can’t believe they’ve taken Warren’s wealth, Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins, prog stoner nonsense, decoding the Dub project, getting the concept backwards, turkeys for Christmas, the MC-nil, other albums are available and the late night wars.

Next week: Yoo Doo Right | Greenleaf | Salmonella Dub again
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This week: we’re a cricket podcast. Don’t let anyone tell you different. #MeaninglessBilaterals #Wibble

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This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers, Confidence Man and The Offspring. Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what’s ‘shameless fan service’ in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very obvious joke, the estate of Chrissy Amphlett is preparing legal papers, FIGJAM, where’s the drop, where’s the Vengabus, solid bops, burner accounts and pensioner naps.

Next week: Maverick Sabre | Mr. Gnome | Jon Spencer
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This week in sport: trying to make sense of a week of NBA games that told us not a lot more than a day did. Also: school holiday childcare, three-heavy basketball sucks, an entire team going 50-40-90, statue or stat someone else?, big outliers, big worries, a Dyson that doesn’t suck, capture the Flagg, the Tobias Harris revenge tour, the Josh Giddey Experience, Wilkinson Beard, new coach bumps, running out of plays, who are these people who sign the releases to appear on RBT, Tim Horton hears a who, India hits their 80s-90s England phase, NSW exceptionalism, do you want weird at the top, deposed regimes hanging around to ruin the vibes, serial killer coaches, and wishcasting Wemby into averaging a 5x5.

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This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine, and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kneecapped, dear Jons, rejected Bob Vylan covers and Fidler on the hoof.

Next week: Amyl and the Sniffers | Confidence Man | The Offspring
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2024 mixtape | All our playlists
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: our traditional massive overreactions to one game of NBA basketball episode, in which we… yeah you can probably figure it out eh. Also: insulting Scotland, serial killers, non-showering teenagers, unserious organisations, false advertising, altitude sickness, Kawhi are you not playing, Bermuda triangles of suck, robust characters, high voltage rock and roll, Ace Frehley, the frozen envelope of NBA commissioner outfits, keeping your third eye open, reconsidering your life choices, Liberty reclaimed, all hail our new BLACKCAP overlords, and the house wins (the house always wins).

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