tripping balls (a music podcast?)

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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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

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

This week’s new albums:  High Fade | Mary in the junkyard | Radkey

Also: Crowbarred stings, single-sided podcasting, the opposite of jazz, the opposite of emo, one of every duo is having a worse time than the other, Weird Al without jokes, space-filling cheese, Tom Hardy’s holiday job, Wu as a lifestyle, swears North Americans are bad at, Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Album, society’s to blame, on the tiles with Tadej, chasing the green, getting publically owned, failed experiments in nation building, Flemball Begins, bigging up Bangers, gap Phil-ers and the truth about cats and dogs.

1:37  High Fade   

7:21  Mary in the junkyard

11:55  Radkey

14:45  Next week’s albums 

25:11  After Dark - STONKS, TdF, BBL, fan ownership, test cricket

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

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: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act 

Also: Premature preamble, fast love, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePromoBumf, turtle power, Greek mythology, thematic confluence, tuatara albums, Lars slander, bad workout music, badly-animated Marshall stacks, Tom Waits for no man, having a Barrie, the easiest job in early ‘00s Australian television, headlining LSW Fest, we hope you like our new direction, Shark Week, Beeso finds even worse places to get album recommendations, work wallpaper, televising boring sports, kids ask your parents what Reebok was, Roglic’s last day as a GC contender, it looks like a fillum, Bridie and Brady, getting owned and running away from home.

1:48  Nia Archives   

9:40  Quicksand

16:21  Yard Act

22:53  Next week’s albums 

21:04  After Dark - darts, cycling, crossfit, basketball

Next week’s new albums: Radkey | Mary in the junkyard | High Fade

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: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House 

Also: Bog people, the project slash the excuse, unrelenting self-promotion, girl parts, legacy defined, planning permission, 80s precision, neurospicy rhythm method, tooting and tinkling, prejudgement night, Wolfgang & McClurg, fridge temperatures of Europe, a junglist on a jungle list, English spumante, TISM collab nightmares, helmet meets pavement, Hughesy goes Musey, it worked until it didn’t, Last Week’s Game Tonight with John Oliver, the ghost of George Gregan, anatomy of a breakaway, Lance ruins everything, domestique violence and Poggio drone chases.

5:03  Jack White   

10:17  Nubiyan Twist

15:21  Public House 

18:52  Next week’s albums 

27:17  After Dark - World Cup schadenfreude, Le Tour

Next week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act 

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