tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week in music: new albums from North Coast megafauna And So I Watch You From Afar, the Buoys (who are girls) and Troy Kingi's just deserts. Also: Sports Takes As A Service, outsider trading, it’s still 1996 somewhere, Schroedinger’s podcast, making stuff on the computer, shed tinkerers, how do you do fellow kids, one hour specials, it’s also still 1998 somewhere, soundtracks again, big round number specials, unaffordable drama, narrower targets, weak spots and weird stains, it’s also still 1994 somewhere and that place is Bristol, too frothy, sweary Manc elephants in rooms, unnecessary reunion tours, Faith No More no more, fine print disclaimers, what people really miss about Oasis, you had me at keytar, markers of interesting people, it’s been a while, views backed by no evidence,  hating all streaming platforms equally, deceptively rapid horses and Gary Oldman’s most notorious role.

Next week: Los Bitchos | Full Flower Moon Band | Charly Bliss
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The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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No sports pod this week due to the lack of NBA content to pod about, so here’s a mini-ep on the lack of NBA content to pod about. Also: Chiefs-Ravens, conference comps, spare Kelces, Pablo Torre and Nate Tice explain NFL play calling, the tush push, the NRL Spoon Bowl and bets best not bet lest you regret.

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This week in music: new albums from Soft Play, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Painted Shield. Also: explaining soundtracks to your kids, orchestral bang ’n’ clang, print is back baby, 65 not out, how many things can you make out of of these other things, competing theories, rising above it because you’re a professional, old mate three names, never happier to be shouted at, don’t read the comments, constructive feedback, ten points for a razor scooter, spoiling the big reveal, legendary moments in soft R&B and cutting bluegrass.

Next week: Troy Kingi | The Buoys | And So I Watch You From Afar
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 (?): the two reasons to buy a professional sports franchise, Jeffrey Bezos, Steph gets bored on Insta, no need for a blue tick, losing dead weight, what the hell are Chelsea doing, accidental Brexit, Beeso is basically Ballmer, blue windscreens of death, actual consumer motoring advice, life is a highway and experiential GPS.

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This week in music: new albums from Jack White, Grinspoon and Empire of the Sun. Also: quitting Spotify, minor leagues, bashin’ riffs, nitpicking, Dead Weather origins, concepts of various descriptions, Patton’s Disease, local legends, unlikely elder statesmen, tradie vibes, corporate gigs, Powderballads, dead cats, this is where I take my leave, 40 years too late or three months too early, GenX H100 fury, answers on a postcard, taking the temperature of the space, exit pursued by a Beetle, editing jobs, this hasn’t aged well, 960 photos of Beeso's backside, you can’t Bake without a Spoon and getting Mr and Mrs N. Z. Taxpaper to fund your holiday.

Next week: Soft Play | King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard | Painted Shield
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This week: culture war draft-dodging, academic grifts, apply gradient and send invoice, getting full value from the plane ticket, Montmartre < Kapelmuur, duathlon ring-ins, casuals and boomers, obscure constitutional precedents, the San Angeles Wakers, the Crossfit deep-dive you didn’t know you needed to hear, do it Toomey, when to cancel your scheduled posts, watching a guy ride very slowly down a hill, charity in the community, European football being back infers European football ever went away, manifesting the end of FTA TV, advertising: they do it because it works, the Big Tobacco playbook, Doc knows betting, why are Chainsmokers and booze ’n' pills.

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This week (month?) in music: new albums from GUM/Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Highly Suspect and Gangstagrass. Also: long-haul airport chilli roulette, the lack of international standards for chip packet colours, visiting Pornland, Ric Flair woo, butt rock, sphagnumcore, the fine line between stupid and clever, old mate three names, unbroken brains, travel music, steal this album, early 2000s confidence, remembering some bands, Sonic bangers, Stuart Littlemore, methadone, the Seattle Skepta, Bob Vylan > Bob Dylan, the best bits of the Late Show, King Wally Otto in the soundproof booth and semi-pro hockey night in Canada.

Next week: Jack White | Grinspoon | Empire of the Sun
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: Beeso’s back from the touch world cup and has TAKES on the Olympics, the NBA and the paucity of single malts in mid-priced Midlands travel hotels. Also: sabotaging your own tape, fit people, the big two killed my tourney, local competition, are we having fun yet, you can’t win anything with kids, European vacations, Australia sucks, players-only meetings, three-time Olympian podcasters, escaping the Cletus channel, filthy casuals, puncturing in the Louvre, USA Basketball’s last stand, Goorjian’s last gasp, we report you decide, NBA Xmas Day snubs, fried Nuggets, Podziemski erasure, unsatisfactory endings, attempting to manifest a Celtics implosion and capture the Flagg.

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This week in music: new albums from Aaron Frazer, Pond and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats.
Also: Grand Unifying Theory II: Electric Boogaloo, insufficiently racist, unnecessary remakes, the death of genre, reintroductions, more brass than class, Now This Is Going To Be Fun dot jpg, false advertising, soft-launching your libertarian anti-vax side project, Nottingrime, non-league collabs, #CouchPeleton punishers, bogan bakers and the worst Yorkshire accents ever recorded.

Next ep: GUM | Highly Suspect | Gangstagrass
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: England’s dreaming, cultural assimilation, Queensland maths, mid-season variance, on the bus from Innisfail, excessive Kendrick, the end of the Dubs dynasty, the new Cash Considerations, which one is the Spare Wiggins, cheap Nuggets, free agenzzzzy, eastbound and down under, Luka Doncooked, chemistry kits, this week’s instalment of OKC Future Chat, Kerr helps the aged, GOAT solidarity, Austria’s thing falls off, Netherlands netherworlds, styles make fights, continuing to get Deschamped, CR7’s unmatched Main Character Energy, lazy national stereotyping as a means of previewing football games, worst timeline Galacticos, are we the baddies?, whither the Dauphine, Cav infuriates the Belgians, boring interviews and Beeso says thanks and goodbye.

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*Before heading off to the touch world cup, not for good. Unless things either go really well or really badly there.

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