tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: It’s smallest-possible-sample-size-theatre as we continue a tradition like no other (apart from the tradition of previewing the season in the first place) by massively overreacting to each NBA team playing one game of basketball. Possibly two, if you’re lucky. Also: the worst view in the sled dog pack, describing memes, the unexpected psychological impact of having the entire world think you’re trash, disgusting chefs, the point of Russ, loud idiots of Dubs Twitter, disrespect my agency, might Robert Sarver have a reason to expect not being around in a few years, playing like you have a lit dart hanging off your bottom lip at all times, Who’s That Mavs Executive, Kyrie for Ben, pulling seven years of receipts, DC slander, sing when you’re winning, Exum planet dust, basketball is good, wasting your prime, worst timeline Kyrgios, important meetings and bad templates. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Also: the Godfather of Grime, lived experience, bringing the troopz like AFTV, apologetic beef, problematic accents, self-aggregating, highlights specials, trying to avoid starring in Adele, 35, getting barred from West Auckland, The Pacifier Experience, no pretenses, Sunset Strip hair farmers, how music normally works, why would you want to do that, death metal font, Rolling Stone’s 500 worst albums, Dave Graney’s suit recommendations and time-travelling sausage manufacture.

Next week’s new albums are courtesy Dazy, Twelve Foot Ninja and Alabama 3 Queensland Reds 6. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Happy 300th birthday, BALLS Podcast. We got you our annual NBA season preview slash wins pool draft, in which Doc, Beeso and Adamhfoto draft every team in the NBA and make iron-clad predictions as to their fate this season, on the basis of facts, stats, next-gen analytics, feels, vibes, jokes, moral objections and long-held grudges. Whoever's teams win the most games across the 2021-22 regular season gets the glory, bragging rights, internet klout, and most importantly of all, free booze. Shouts to anyone who gets all the team music drops. We'll be back next week to massively overreact to half a week of actual NBA basketball. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new stuff from Amyl and The Sniffers, CHVRCHES and Calva Louise. Also: our plan to save modern EDM, getting maggoted, Marmite areas, start as you mean to finish, fine lines, sniff tests, obscure WA politics references, bilingual bangers, DIY Rage, more Doubt, Spanish swearing, learn to play the Bogut way, the great Avril replacement, MECHA-STREISAND, closing loops, do godfathers outrank princes, deluxe EPs, Dave Graney's hiding place, getting pepperoni grease out of linen suits, anger management and substance abuse as a personality trait. 

Next week’s new albums are courtesy Yizzy, Shihad and the Bronx. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re here, we’re back. This week: The Cavs-era Shaq of podcasting, giving Diana Taurasi her flowers, Sarver gonna Sarver, four years late on doing your due diligence, workers compo scams, JR Dangerfield, can sports and politics journos jobswap, Kyrie’s season predictions, Leeds trails, state-sponsored piracy, Baudi Barabia, no time for joyless Bonds, Beeso digs chicks, Australia gets caught, Dan Lebecky, Ben for Boban who says no, Spurs on hold, chasing the entire Northwest, Bones on the skins, a truck full of big bags, players union priorities, preseason form and a big offseason move. Next week: our annual NBA season preview/wins pool draft. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, and a classic from A Tribe Called Quest. Also: more M1 chat, spokey-dokeys, last week tonight, the same stuff, Your Mate, double concept albums, bad bad not good, chubby checker, this is hardcore, room-borne elephants, evolution not revolution, feel the beat drop, jazz and hip hop, consensually gross, a shot in the dark, a bit too nyeaahh, Vlad Chiriches, matter of fact I got it now, post-ironic cheese, UK tuna imports, new MCU superheroes, score check, the decline and fall of empire, Ben Simmons vs Sid Fogg, we remember a guy, and it turns out that antivaxxers: not ideal. Next week: new stuff from CHVRCHES, Calva Louise and Amyl and The Sniffers. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Alien Weaponry, Jungle and Andy Cooper.
Also: parking the bus, reverse jinxes, being pro-creep, The Matrix 2.1, light and shade, emo faffage, macron confusion, self-parodying monarchs, disco strutting, controlling your energy, getting upset at randomness, cannot and/or will not stop, primary producers, government names, all downhill, a busy day at the record store, Kool-Aid entrances, not talking to your friends, improving Coolangatta, te reo for kids, earning the tag, pre-emptive bullying and blazers in Brisvegas. 

Next week: new albums from Rudimental and Chubby and the Gang, we complete the set of classic 24 September 1991 releases with A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory, and Doc might even have his mic on the correct setting. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Little Simz, Drapht and Meatbodies. Also: novel anxiety, gathering no moss, things of that nature, Therapy?, too much salt, degrees of difficult, Paul Simon areas, never being to me, self-help apps, new-age Bond themes, no swag, a little bit terrible, reading the room, dearly depahhhted, outside help, stacks and bricks, edited highlights, seemed like a good idea at the time, prog flog, Craig vs Moore, heavily polished, alley days re-revisited, Spotify in confusing two different artists shock, this is your fault, firing from both ends, psychedelic counterpoints, Kendrick slander, I don’t have time to feel bad about this, jungle weaponry, inventing something new, legacy mountain, humming index, 60% new content, getting the band back together, vegan barbequing, recapping very old jokes in very bad ways, scab league avoidance, no news is no news, don’t sell work stuff on eBay and gender equality.

Next week: new albums from Jungle, Alien Weaponry and Andy Cooper and not Shihad. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Also: Disappearing acts, concert context, old bangers, bridging sets, unjustified mu-mus, contractually-obligated playlist additions, royal punishment, humblebragging about getting to have holidays, lorazepam, stacks and straps, cratedigger origin stories, beats without bars, the world is still chaos, it’s the vibe, Layne Staley on a crackly conference call, getting mutual, dropping furniture, acronym in-jokes, critical vs commercial, near-death metal, the Ty Segall Cinematic Universe, the secret life of breaking early-00s Melbourne indie-pop bands by using their music in hipster TV dramas, hiphop bias, downing tools, the Bucs almost stop, aging strawberry dodgers, content factories, smart-casual cases, reasons not to go to parties, Beeso talks to kids, and needless to say I had the last laugh. 

Next week: new albums from Meatbodies, Drapht, and most unexpectedly, Little Simz. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new Nas, new Ty Segall, and (near) new Faithless. 
Also: times of chaos, firehose creativity, the 33rd best band of the 90s, Gen X are worse than boomers, parental fails, non-Noonans, cultural touchstones, Jack Johnson tribute acts, insomnia cures, ivermectin doesn’t work on earworms, floral arrangements, rotting tennis centres, Nike knockoffs, made in the sunshine, collaboration cancellations, Ford Fiesta racing, live to tape, Glasgaw chverchves, one-man bands, becoming overinvested in 2016, late night veganism, you had a good go at it thanks for your input, lockdown fields of view, 1989 Corollas, Mad Monday on a Tuesday, Jimmy Anderson won’t go away, Mosgiel slander, Knuckles Colony and chilled-out Tunes. 

Next time: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Cam Cole and L’Orange x Namir Blade. Recent review albums are in our current album review playlist on Spotify, with earlier stuff in our 2021 review archive, along with our 2021 tripping balls mixtape featuring our favourite tracks from new albums we’ve reviewed this year. The full list of all the albums we've ever featured on the show and Beeso's playlist for his boys are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.