tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from grime merchant Ghetts, Glaswegian minstrels the Snuts and Neapolitan riff fiends the Devils.
Also: Crüe 1982, mixed bags, apologies to Scotland, underwater tunes, a hard earned joker, full Rufus spec, improving the White Stripes, nunsploitation vibes, you belong in the Zoo, Wellington Chats, tripping balls OnlyFans, the inside of Jack White’s brain, vinyl Criterion Collections, umming and aahing, science podcasting, bad kicks and playing your way back down the divisions.

Next week: DARTZ | Sheer Mag | Mannequin Pussy
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn’t a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups, no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan) B in Oston, bored in Milwaukee, Jokic vs everybody, Embiid vs reality, Chemby and Wet, further complications in the Spurs’ timeline, Agent Zero Google alerts, the Patty Mills buyout market and a couple of unsolicited character assessments.

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This week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape, and EPs from Little Simz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron. Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show, a clarification, old mate Dave, the Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about the Beatles, on the buckets, ice cream on hash browns, universal reactions, techno sucks and other very 1995 worldviews, different inspiration and/or different drugs, UK grim(e), live at Levitation, cleanliness is next to grunginess, Ghetts’ guests, nothing from Scotland can ever be bad, aggressive losses, pre-emptively avoiding Double J, official bootlegs, the Pearl Jam military-industrial complex and what’s my age again (spoilers: a lot).

Next week's new albums: Ghetts | The Devils | The Snuts
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game’ podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition.
Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights, entering the ‘finding out’ phase, Costco content, Steph and Sabrina save the day, a Dray bar, juicy factoids, the Thunder’s last big test, still mentally in Cabo, same Kings different year, first round series that should be finals, Knicks-positive NBA-adjacency, guy calling himself Doc in ‘can’t shut up’ shock, can Dame walk, Beeso’s Coaching Corner™, Massive Overreactions To One Game Mid-Season Edition, Fraudwatch, the OG Pod, 7pm in Brooklyn, Detlef Schrempf catching strays, haunted by the Iceman, drafting white Seppos, the Joe Ingles of OKC, the Joe Ingles of Orlando, dreamcasting the East first round, the BALLS 400 and big holes in the Nets.

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This week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale.
Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune, Darkest Timeline Weird Al, trolling tin-chuckers at 4.30am, Tripod and Tenacious D, one sentence reviews, Pippen and Jordan, the least plausible Bob Marley comp in the history of west coast hip-hop, starting at Be Here Now, smorgasboards, Inflo outflow and the perils of not doing your own research.

Next week: Middle Kids | Black Grape | EPs from Little Simz, BRMC and Matt Cameron
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week in sport: Cold transitions, Western melees, altitude problems, underwhelming fortnights, something to believe in, Mavs adds, MJ’s mates, mispronouncing Artūras Karnišovas, betting on the inevitable Boston bedwetting, a week off from Doc, a long rumination on whether today’s Spurs are capable of building a contender around Wemby, the Covid draft, title timelines, Murray for value, prepared monologues, overtime takes, racist chops, Tay takes, special teams and continental drift.

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This week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall.
Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of a supergroup, psychotic breakbeats, arrest Alex Turner, a land beyond songs, we all need unconditional support, condensed reviews, alleged classics, Australian hiphop is truly in great hands, Jay Masochist and white-knuckling the early year grimness. Plus: a very special ASMR After Dark, for the dedicated weirdos.

Next week: Courting | Sigma | Wolves of Glendale
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root down, weird Jazz, don’t make Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast tap the sign, Minnesota persists, Harden hits the Portland Melo stage, falling off the NFL coaching carousel, comebacks by instalment, keep getting them cheques, Grant Hill drinks Sprite, the Windies get short-changed, shouts to Pez, career choices, whither netball, bash and smash, the two greatest words in NZ sport: per capita, your Marsh Cup Moment™, Beeso’s next gig, La Liga post Messi-Ronaldo and the Barry Ryan of podcasting. 

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This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times.

Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste in music than you did, BOGOF deals, chunky guitars, disavowed classics, fantasy booking the Alley, desperately attempting to appear interesting to women, milquetoast track sevens, supernatural John Wick, preemo, do albums have a ringpiece, Doc’s ‘Possibly Getting Beeso’d’ Big Board, opening your mind to darkness, the 4CCC no-play list, music that happened to other people, highly specific Spotify subscriptions, jukebox favourites, androgyny, analogue algorithms, bandname dyslexia, the Kiwi Silverchair, emotion sickness, wombling over your own legacy, unsuccessful snipers, securing the bag, Beeso’s stage debut, off the bingo card, gateway drugs, albums you are sure you owned at one point, realising you are kind of a big deal, one-man revival tours, having your Gen X card pulled, the Soderbergh cut, grunting in the direction of the problem, day 1 in the Britpop wars, strategic gold reserves, Protracker guitar samples, and a cast of thousands too numerous to mention at this particular juncture.

Next week: we kick off 2024 with Ty Segall | SPRINTS | The Smile
Spotify playlists: Current albums | 2023 archive | 2023 mixtape | Tracks from this episode (spoilers obvs)
The database: Review albums since 2015 and year-end top 5 lists
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This week: the NBA All-Star starters, the Bucks call for the Doc, Rivals Week, failed opening gambits, the Windies are back (?) and our accidental NFL conference finals preview.

Also: Zero-day exploits, fan service, Cavs conundrums, #PRUNTYSZN, vibes-based regimes, if it’s not broke don’t break it, pallbearer dance routines, welcome to Indiana, the Terry Rozier Experience, the Exum exile, showing your bits, our Australian Open coverage, the new Timberwolves, opportunistic diatribes, compulsive whinging, the Phoenix Death Stars, grading rookies on the Chet-Wemby curve, the BALLS Podcast Theme Cup, giraffe fights, international blood feuds, trolling your podcast guests, the Forrest Gump of the NBA, Paolo’s poor pick, donkey voting, supporting your mates, tough away trips, absolute towellings, who could have possibly foreseen this, never go full Ed Cowan, Australasia’s most Windies-positive cricket-adjacent podcast, Maxidents will happen, generic white lady cutaways, the 1999 Melbourne Storm of the NFL, the best of what’s left of, Mahomes vs Lamar and Boonie chasing a drinks cart.

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