tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom Morello

Also: excitable dunkers, Richie Benaud colour charts, aggressively boring, 2026 Beeso [handshake emoji] 1997 Roy Keane, making handgrenades somehow worse, the only boring road trip in New Zealand, ‘The Beach’ of albums, lefty boomer doomscrolling, action hero jousting dude, using your voice in public, bring back Dopamine Week, get your blood pressure checked, understanding indie, noone likes winning with fragile batting, nostalgia is built out of confirmation bias, sending the heavies round and atmospheric noises are atmospheric.

1:02  Dunedin-via-Auckland indie band Office Dog 

6:34  90s alternative supergroup Bring The Sea

9:42  Tom Morello and friends doing Tom Morello things

16:33  Next week’s albums 

23:36  After Dark - Test cricket, thunder (not OKC)

Next week’s new albums: MIchael Kiwanuka | the Schizophonics | Mother’s Cake

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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This week’s new albums: Action Bronson | C.O.F.F.I.N | Chase & Status

Also: get in the sea bin, keep out of reach of children, like and subscribe, beaten by cosplayers, geographical confusion, both kinds of loud, vocal production, sad bloke on a run of outs areas, Giants of Science timetravel, Postman Pat pyrotechnics, what the world needs now, it’s the children who are wrong, no longer chasin’ status, Gen X supergroups, jokertastic noodling, early AOTY research, obvious comic devices, fluid orders, losing Bathurst, losing technology, Qatar vs Abu Dhabi and overreaction season.

1:59  Action Bronson 

5:28  C.O.F.F.I.N 

12:36  Chase & Status

19:44  Next week’s albums 

28:48  After Dark - Test cricket, motorsport, City-PSG

Next week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom Morello

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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It’s EP Week! A tapas platter of new music from Night Swimming, Karen Dió, 16 Underground, The Gnomes, Sherif Boi & Tomahawk, Sonic Reducer, Public Figures, MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi, 7Horse and horse (no relation)

Also: live Bledisloe updates, Bath/Bath, mansplaining Bandsplain, context and intent, dolphin cruises, trust your first instinct, straight pimpin’, fresh finds, fantasy booking Recovery in 1998, versions of not-new that don’t sound old, Much Worse Bunny, Patton pending, indie sleaze, the ghost of the Ghost of Frankie Cesar, probbo checks, this content is not available in your territory, horse_ebooks, minimum viable bands, fried chicken, the man from the memes, the parmesan toast of music, blatant disrespect, Head’s come off, a third of the way through Renshaw’s knock, caping for City, spoiled by success, the British Brayshaw, Bron’s bucks and basketball bubbles.

2:45  Night Swimming

9:01  Karen Dió

10:56 16 Underground

13:10 The Gnomes

15:39  Sherif Boi/Tomahawk   

16:57  Sonic Reducer vs Public Figures

21:02  MOKOMOKAI/Troy Kingi

23:51  7Horse vs horse

25:55  Next week’s albums 

33:06  After Dark - test cricket, City vs the Clippers, Matt Burke?

Next week’s new albums: Chase & Status | C.O.F.F.I.N. | Action Bronson

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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This week’s new music:  Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A Holiday

Also: the two true paths of covers, recycled grease, Karens and Sharons, column compendiums, gas-powered internet, dreich in full effech, misled by first impressions, missing the deadline, the next good Karen, it’s ten louder, C’s get degrees, being bad at time maths, the sandpapergate reunion special, Zaltzman v Davey Dum Dum, schtick replacing insight, blaming Six N Out, post-game previews of pre-game performances, the city that always sleeps, jumper punches are dumb as hell, some remarkably prescient AFL GF preview chat which doesn’t require any edit shed updates (you’re welcome) and stupid World Cup schedule clashes.

1:11  Satan Takes A Holiday   

8:16  Team Dresch

14:58  Ty Segall

17:17  Next week’s albums 

27:24  After Dark - cricket, AFL GF, CWC v RWC

Next week: it’s EP Week! Short sharp sounds from Night Swimming, Karen Dió, 16 Underground, The Gnomes, Sherif Boi & Tomahawk, Sonic Reducer, Public Figures, MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi, 7Horse and horse (no relation)

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  Mike D | Headie One | Airbourne

Also: 2026 exceptionallism, brutalist flats, equilibrium opprobrium, saving graces, why are you doing this to people who care about you, song title nominative determinism, MCAI, context-specific albums, doing 7 AFL’s job for them, beer isn’t a food group, raised on Hasselhoff and Scorpions, genre of origin stickers, Jason Status, ornithology, arcane bylaws, EP week,  Bills-Lions, NFL’s greatest names, some surprisingly well aged AFL chat, the Clippers’ remaining tools, don’t Walter yourself, don’t Hyrox yourself, healthmaxxbros ruin everything and getting croc’y in Rocky.  

1:23  Headie One   

4:22  Mike D 

10:28  Airbourne

15:06  Next week’s albums 

23:04  After Dark - NFL, AFL, NBA, Hyrox vs Crossfit, Olympic rowing venues

Next week’s new albums:  Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A Holiday

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor Honeymoon

Also: Blow up your video, schmedium fits, improvement items, acts of rebellion, open with your best stuff, pushing against the sugar, casuals and randoms, dropping entire loaves of bread, geometric means, on the nose, Air Ben Stillers, podcast samples, VENOM VENOM VENOM VENOM, icy cold cans of Coke, it’s a trap, factcheck: technically we just DID some UK hiphop, sweaty bogans from Warrnambool, second generation slopwatch, from in Sault to injury, guiltless Beesoings, the wrong Robert Smith, squared circles, getting patronised by NFL touchies, the unbackable Super Bowl favourites are completely derailed by a midweek flight to Melbourne, #MCGSoBig, draft dodging, who does number 2 work for and the worst gig in world cricket.

1:32  Grandma’s House   

4:32  Sailor Honeymoon 

9:31  CZARFACE & Frankie Pulitzer

19:13  Next week’s albums 

28:10  After Dark - NFL in Melbourne, F1, cricket, subcontinental politics

Next week’s new albums:  Headie One | Airbourne | Mike D

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at AB

Also: Beeso sings country classics, Glengarry Glenn Ridge, point/counterpoint, dinosaur extinction, ADHD medication, Kram-Janet hybrids, professors of neurobiology, the guy who curates Doc's Release Radar, slow jams, rogue geologists, seal of approval, day jobs, Wu-Tang name generators, doing the acting on the Hollywoods, ESL jokes, summer’s over, an interesting ten minutes, ESPN gets played, unironic welcomes-back, outside the tent, Pablo starts in on TWG, burial at sea, writing down a criminal conspiracy, transfer inefficiencies, first days at work, Movistar ascents and team evolutions. 

1:07  Wolves of Glendale   

4:42  Wine Lips 

9:42  Dead Meadow

13:37  Kruder & Dorfmeister live at the Ancienne Belgique, 2023

16:30  Next week’s albums 

35:15 After Dark - NBA salary hat shenanigans, football transfers, la Vuelta, F1

Next week’s new albums:  CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor Honeymoon

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums:  Getdown Services | Stepmother | Dead Meadow

Also: Coup de tarts, rescue dog metaphors, dubstep elevator music, wet sounds, narrative side quests, the Wil Anderson Appreciation Hour, NCIS all the things, panel shows, Birdman karaoke, a parody of a pastiche of a joke, not that sort of filth, we’re gonna need a bigger shirt, Edge cases, preeminent rock powerhouses, where is Victor Anichebe’s social media manager :(((, the Joe Ingles spot, ADHD nonsense, one-joke Americans, massacring Belgian placenames, DMCA dodging, knowing how many skips to skip, tyre squirt, five star reviews, French manure interruptions, rickrolling your children with Carabao Cup highlights, reset the counter and bubbles that need bursting.

3:32  Getdown Services   

11:47  Stepmother  

16:00  Dead Meadow

18:35  Next week’s albums 

35:18 After Dark - podcasting, F1, cycling, football, sports ownership

Next week’s new music:  Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at AB

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums:  Jungle | Swapmeet | GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite

Also: Beeso’ll Fix It, the elephant in the room, Reloaded Honey, Cleetus McFarland, set menus, Indie Temple fantasy bookings, oh-oh-oh-OHH-O’Broin, vice advice, don’t eat the blue snow, regretful binnings, self-own coverage, dark underbellies, long unravellings, extremely loud wrong proclamations, NBA day trading, dead presidents, maybe not the player comp Cameron Green was hoping for and the questionable economy of a big six.  

1:02  Jungle   

6:44  Swapmeet  

8:53  GA-20 and Charlie Musselwhite

11:51  Next week’s albums 

21:08  After Dark - NBA ownership, test cricket, EPL

Next week’s new albums:  Getdown Services | Stepmother | Dead Meadow

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

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Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums:  Inspectah Deck | Maara | Twisted Teens

Also: Mystery listeners, so very tired, albums you’d rather be making, forgettable new-age Euro dance of the 90s, ring culture, broken headphones, low-rent venues, tip-shop Springsteen, third wheels, belated crackdowns, reaching for the comfort blanket, mumbling Brits over a driving bassline, crunchy or smooth surrealism, unexpected Pinky Beecroft deep-dives, clapbacks incoming, indefensible Russ takes, the heart of a poster, Bangladesh are good, Beeso’s Cam Green takes are bad, and top end tests are tops.

2:46  Inspectah Deck     

7:08  Maara  

10:47  Twisted Teens

13:32  Next week’s albums 

26:32  After Dark - Russ and KD, test cricket

Next week’s new albums: Jungle | GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite | Swapmeet

Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlists

The list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fives

Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other apps

Socials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email