tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: new albums from Wolf Alice, Skegss and Sleater-Kinney. Also: where are my teeth, would you like to borrow some words, tooling around for a bit, unearned lupinity, shouts to Frenté, Doc doesn’t get out much, they rock more than you do, the Dunedin Sound, world famous in New Zealand, Beeso victimises the elderly, unintentional segues, imagine 1994, rambling beat poetry, albums that precede comeback albums, back in my day, outta phase, the Tennants Perpetual Trophy, true history of the Paul Kelly Gang, postcode chats, never mention Doc’s Bob Dylan’s impression, wild overcorrections, Discover Weekly form slumps, Worst. Episode. Everrrr., umlauts rock, live from the desert, bands you haven’t heard of that influenced bands you have, all kinds of weirdness, Waimate Beach, Delta variants, Kyuss-offs and Shins splints.

Next week: Adamhfoto joins Doc to talk new/near-new produce from the Blue Stones and Jacob Collier. When Beeso returns from the war: new stuff from Czarface + MF Doom and Stöner, and a grab-bag all-star Gang Of Four tribute album. 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.

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This week: The World Championship of commemorative servo tat, unintentional rest days, bringing the Crimea War look back to NBA, a little teste, are any of these teams actually good, everything has an asterisk, Ham Sandwichstroh, calling Nick Wright a serious basketball analyst is probably a stretch, high speed games of chess, only coaches like coaching talk, the Kidd’s not alright, relationship management, being less famous than your assistant, a bad week for Bens, Kardashian exclusion zones, in defence of the defensive player of the year, helping with fingerpainting, redefining luck, doubling down on your mistakes, podcaster slash fiction, NBA TV playoff series, Trae Young gives you gastro, Double Dragscreen, the competitive advantage of barber-dodging, Gareth Bale’s stick-on top knot, quite a reasonable Euros R16 preview, playing well for half an hour, picking better role models, unenjoyable underdogs, underwriting your transfer kitty with Netflix cash, get it India, why is every Queensland side the worst Queensland side ever, jobbing T20 cricketers, un-fun teams to be fans of, Lillee’s kicking Javed in the bum, official whisky sponsors and getting lit up in duty free. 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.

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This week with Doc and Adam: invasion of the bodysnatchers, Australasia’s leading Suns-positive podcast, jab chat, is this good or is this content, the Mavs implode, a gambler who didn’t know when to hold, fold, walk away or run, records that sound like a movie phone number, getting fired by Beeso, Super League Super Friends, peat and iodine, the Sixers are bad, leftover Curry, what’s up with Doc, bootleg Jokic, bad things happening in threes, LeBron was right (just ask him), everyone misses someone, Big Ones, Gerry Harvey hacks, why nobody ever played Utah on NBA Jam, hipster dive bars, alco seltzers, foiled solo pod plans, getting lobbed from the carpark, Croatia’s one last job, ’94 World Cup feels, home nations staying home, the not-good Germans, solid Bs, not your Nonno’s Italy, Rule Britannarrative, reliable south coast weather, the BCCI forget to negotiate a nonsense countback rule in their favour, microclimate chat, get in the sea, man bun hate, a Danny Ric FP1 update, Jingles’ Balkan twin, big city B-teams, face/off Serbian style, sweep the leg, sick of winning, all fullbacks and second rowers and a big hello to our listeners in Queensland. 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.

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This week: new albums from Kings, the Datsuns and You Am I. Also: the absolute temerity, trap beats and coke raps, No-tearoa, tropes under licence, terrible segues, full Nashville Cletus, good Lenny Kravitz vibes?, sense of propulsion, Before The Muse Paradox, melted goths, performative past tense, Devils slander, get mad and get even, the Men’s Shed of 90s indie, songs ruined by popular culture, White Stripes gateway drugs, Wolf Something, not quite Aardman and getting St Vincented. Next time: new albums from Wolf Alice, Skegss and Sleater-Kinney. 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.

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This week in NBA-adjacent podcasting: Restarting the room, unexpected chalk, ratings concern trolls, the whitest imaginable crowd chants, deep in the weeds, charity stripe avoidance, lollypop lint, joyless accrual, quality control, tax fraud vs workers compo, tedious bad-faith arguments deleted for comic effect, nine fullbacks, Beeso fails his performance review, getting lost in the niggle, unrepresentative swill, Oprah as an Origin selector, as the karmic wheel turns, double agent Steve Nash, saving your worst takes for the pod account, whirring cog of machine, classic recipe Bud, white NBA podcasters pronounce Ime Udoka’s name correctly challenge, the Swedish Chef meets the Peter Principle, the ARU elevate their KPIs by 200%, neutral defenders, zone with Boban, Just Kidding, Smart trades, cancelling your social engagements, Cuban republicans, Super League basketball, howls of derisive laughter Bruce and no Scrubbs (DNP-CD). 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.

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Because we can't let Beeso enjoy *anything*, let alone his Suns finally slaying the Lakers boogeyman and ending decades of Big Shot Bob Horry living rent-free in his head, Doc calls in from his holiday/Adam's shed to contribute a swathe of largely uninformed and completely unsolicited takes on the end of the first round and the conference semi-final matchups. Also this week: welcome to Tasmania, the absolute state of Origin, and Adam's sources tell him EXCLUSIVELY Danny Weidler style that golfers/Americans/golfers who are Americans have cooties and should be avoided. Available in all the usual locations including however you happen to be reading this, probably via Omny Studio, Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

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Beeso goes solo to get the Suns actually winning a finals series against the Lakers off his chest.

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This week: Neapolitan ice screamery from The Devils, Afro-Asiatic anime beats from Flying Lotus and bourbon-and-bank-robbery delta blues from the Black Keys.

Also: drug cocktails, sick riffs, deliberately using the most mellow track from the album as a drop to make your cohost’s opinions look vaguely ridiculous, late night SBS B-movies, #DocReadsLabelBios, the Kevin Bacon of ‘90s-‘10s rock, narrator: he did not edit all that out, bank robbery enabling, the raw and the cooked, the Black Keys’ big come up, the entire history of white rock ’n’ roll, music to nod off at the wheel to, hanging up your sword because of some… unpleasantness, Blade Runner knockoffs, giving away the plot in the song title, Lynchian collabs, the Doc’s favourite band of the past 20 years, non-Football non-Kingz, bootleg Drake art concepts and baseline controls.

Next time by: new Australasian album sounds from the Datsuns, Kings and You Am I. 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.

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This week: The Heat is off, karmic rewards, Beeso’s bad weekend, it be your own people sometimes, annual service, learning to love to hate Trae Young, Grizz vs Grizz Premium, Northwest rockfights, Austintacious shooting, Mike Minogue, a list of people Kristaps should try to be that aren’t him, goat excrement, Ayton truthers, well-actually’ing the correct definition of a gentlemen’s sweep, getting PatBev’d, scar tissue, relegate Charlotte to League 2, shouts to us for posting this before Knicks-Hawks game 4 actually happened, Bud does a coaching, Giannis taking everything personally forever, unenthused about being in Boston, crowd singular, as a Mistral employee once told me you’re only as good as your fans, bad banter, tell us a joke, mean questions, beat reporter gruntwork, Conn jobs and the BLACKCAPSLOCK’s next opportunity to ‘lose’ an international trophy in shattering fashion. 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.

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This week: new albums from Iceage, DJ Format and Genesis Owusu. 

Also: bad allies, are Scandinavians allowed to be boring, unlimited attempts, is playing in time and singing in key just stuff that only washed boomers care about, interesting looking horses, R Sage, late night lounge sets, losing your abs, the Avalanches School of Random Sampling, get your rocks off, spaces between, points for trying, 80s sports movies, lyrical themes, when the chips are down, Kingi-fisher, Mark Lanegan frequencies, special guest stars in order of appearance, getting mistaken for Thundercat, lifetime bans, consensus picks, professional cowardice, preparing yourself for disappointment, throwing back to a random week in early 2017, who asked Coldplay to come back, and yes mate we’ve all got stuff going on. 

Next week: new albums from Neapolitan ice screamers The Devils, West Coast beatmaker Flying Lotus and delta frequent-flyers the Black Keys.

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.

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