tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: Old Strokes, New Strokes and Yves (might be a) Tumor, The 12th Man Again Again, Doc's Zencaster handle of the week, I don’t even own a TV, average sex, was this it, giving up 2002, Central tunnel acoustics, bad decisions, millennial music mags, pulped Bond themes, pushing buttons, in defence of cheese, childlike wonder, you come at the Prince you best not miss, definite sex haver albums, only nineteen, Reverse Patreon, live music substitutes, the year of crotchy album covers, the Seppo Gurge, disproportionately successful in Australia, theoretical mixtapes, interstitial instrumentals, the Canberra Comets of the NRL, the Knicks are an inside job, Doc reads a book, the 1985/86 Australian WSC team, spotting Mo Matthews in Randwick Franklins and being surprised by your own jokes. Next week: Sleaze-merchants Patrón, Northern grime monkey Aitch and late ‘90s lophotrochozoan enthusiasts Ween. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: New music from Jaguar Jonze and LOSER, Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut: singular statement or saccharine demo tape?, we might have been drinking, unworthy of 250, Triple M aversion therapy, caping for the Beatles, music rag confectionery, the soft-loud, the deliberate… pause, anyway here’s my laptop, the shouty banger album, the sensation you are feeling is the U2ification, Danny Bonaduce house band deep cuts, down with this sort of stuff, everything is the blues, spare guitarist virus denialism, Grohl on live music, unleaded supergroups, short comebacks, hit and missy, jobs for your mates, the distilled essence of trip-hop, overselling your picks, full length releases, the Andrew Stockdale Prize for Biographical Fiction, were we wrong or were they, bangers and mash, everything is different when it’s live, hiding in the doof tent, caught by the fuzz, avoiding being caught stealing, BDO 2004 and spicy hot Wings. Then, in ‘the garbage we do afterwards’: NBA comeback specials, Office Space feels, Twitter: making your life worse since 2016, Trent Woodhill power-ranks NRL coaches, wrestling in a purple shirt, the walking death of the big man, World Cup campaigns, destroying your own creation and all-duck-fat training diets. (On that, Beeso’s insta is worth a look. As is Dave Grohl’s storytelling one, tbh).

Next week: the Strokes then and now, and it might be Yves Tumor. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: a new EP from Little Simz, Kiwi emo-metal via City of Souls, Little Simz' new EP, ‘60s jangle-twang from Dead Ghosts and would you look at that it’s a new EP from Little Simz. Also: Mike Patton does what Mike Patton does, it’s not Mabo, preconceived notions, the Toyota Hilux of podcasting, THRRRUUUSSST, two minute warnings, a return to mediocrity, self-cancelling headphones, Dead bits, oblique edges, stealing for your kids, early morning snipers, Tū Pac, Dr Yobbo reads Spotify bios, keeping up with the Jonzes, gender subverting photography exhibitions, handy for Bristol, Tri Phop, the worst profile of the week, Death To Title Case, kicking on overseas, Brazil: it’s bigger than you think, Reject Shop supergroups, Ronald Ray Gun, built from bits, never pay full price and fifty shades of beige - plus some leftover bootleg motorsportnerdpod #content on Formula 1 returning, the Bathurst 12 Hour not, cartel franchises, Seb gets subbed, Lando TV and putting the no in Renault. Next week: Jaguar Jonze, LOSER and Foo Fighters’ self-titled debut. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: new albums from Maddy Jane, Wyldlife and Best Coast, would you like to play a game, procrastinating from home, pick-sniping, needing to see other people, internet-famous for the wrong reasons, Missy Barnett, performatively regional, cheese-producing Bass Strait island power-rankings, scrotal fungi, that’s a lot, recurring themes, intensely disposable, love songs and dedications, Marvel bangers, banks of knobs, the mediocrity of large groups, the awesomeness of old Datsuns, the music taste of an eight year old, FU boomer, contractual obligations, 2-1 losses, EP tracks vs album tracks, gala sets vs hour specials, touching wood, forced presence, strawpeople, the Eric the Eel of grime, new-old stock, unsuccessful anythings, the gravitational pull of 2003, padding on the internet, typing on the internet, points for Simpsons references, apologies in advance for what Doc just did to your eardrums, getting played on radio stations you don’t listen to, Auckland city mission, the University of YouTube, being too poor to be anti-vax, RUGBA LEAGUE, axeing for trouble, C-P-free from ringz, overpaying for one good run, underestimating how long NZ emo-metal albums can be and reconditioned Clutch discs. Next week: Dead Ghosts, City of Souls and the new EP from Little Simz. Obvs. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own indie RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your opinions on the contents are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: new albums from Violent Soho and Tom Misch with Yussef Dayes, Brothers Stoney’s Stone Broke. slacker grunge grab bags, the Billy Corgan Appreciation Society, The Freshmaker, shouts to the 4122, the best Pearl Jam song ever released, ‘phoning it in, incidental instrumentals, carpet sample books, this is lazy, mates from Adelaide, hiphop landmarks, finders fees, super professional if a little bit stoned, who’s the boss, DIY aesthetics, DIY wetsuit warmers, radio resets, live Gizzard, Nutbush: the national dance of Australia, memes are all Dicky Dawkins’ fault, bad bad not good, a series of noises that are vaguely interesting, Team Lockdown, Kenny Stardustat the K West, I don’t go to parties baby, Soundtrap for young players, making songs suck less, ChemBros listening parties and Bonus BALLS (since the sport pod is off next week) on ball-tampering spit-takes and Luka vs Trae. Next week's new albums are from Wyldlife, Maddy Jane and Best Coast. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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The Thibs of touch, the white noise of podcasting, orange you glad for RUGBY LEAGUE, revenue sharing, wanting the best for rugby union, exporting imports, you down with NPC (yeah you know me), cultural differences, Bill Simmons talking about himself, ‘the Rodmans of the world’ (??), opting out of the discourse, chasing greatness is a partial life mission, pardon the interregnum, This Is Serious Mum, #NBATwitter #TalkingAboutItself, spoilers: the Germans are not coming back in two weeks, good news for Liverpool, Leeds are actually a Kappa squad (same sizing concerns though), Oz dumps Uz, Afghanistan 1991, Sensible Soccer 1996/97, bludging in mixed grade and college isoball. 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.

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This week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio], RUGBY LEAGUE, mating calls, definitely albums, Weddings Parties Anything covers bands, Fitzroy turf wars, Things Of Stone And Wood That Aren’t Beer, don’t talk just go, sax offending, loud is enough, insufficient stickiness, stop eating the microphone, Chuck & friends, old man flow, the Facebook uncle of hiphop, 10 albums in 10 days, not for broadcast, incredibly local, kings and cutthroats, lost in the 90s, hit and Misch, Alvin Stardust, songs to get off heroin to, panned Labyrinth, it’s been a long week and the whisky’s kicking in, Choirboys don’t like big muff, black metal cats, tunnel vision, industrial disease, Tarzan albums, influential vs good, mental pedometers, angry Collective Soul, Garage Days Re-Revisited, RUGBY LEAGUE and the longest uninterrupted string of washed 1980s references in the history of this or indeed any podcast.

Next week: Violent Soho rep the 4122, a new Tom Misch/Yussef Dayes collab and Brothers Stoney’s underground debut Stone Broke. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: going Full Roy & HG, drink-driving apologists, the Germans are the good guys, mainlining Dettol to own the libs, the Final Word on CA’s cash crunch, colourful racing identities, saving rugby league from rugby league people, complete and utter Kents, LeBatard March Sadness, Crazy Fabe goes Stadium Super Trucks, Beeso as ideas man: that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow, reluctant Betoota shoutouts, Supercar Space Oddity, Michael Effrey Jordan, why Australia A won’t work in 2020, and you know who also wasn’t a complete [redacted] when he started. 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.

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This week: Michael Jordan’s responsible for everything that goes wrong, flying coach, 1998 vs 2018, the ’21 Dubs, Climb Rich Man, the end of the Spurs, sweat equity, claiming all the Strava KOMs in Luscombe, not THAT Erebus disaster and Max joins the eSausage series. 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.

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This week: new albums from Laura Marling and Rookie, while the Stones’ satanic majesties request that you Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out! thanks luv. #okboomer #totesinapprops Also: Classic Rock Week, frothing on campfire folk, clocking Spotify, evolutionary developmental musicology, Marling and me, first year drama projects, ending up where you should have been all along, false advertising, Ahhyynnnnjaaayyyyeee, party’s over, the rise and fall of the album, another band playing Chuck Berry, the Wreck-On-Tours, inventing stadium rock, corporate raiders, the history of Oz indie music in 30 tracks, demarkation disputes, scaring the censors, Hov & Ye, Keef’s book, Leonard Bernstein Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs, binary narratives, maintain the rage, a nation of ultracops, it’s just a search away, lockdown divorces, DoCS interventions, scripture vs blasphemy, bad UK hiphop crossovers and a tight two minutes from the Big Yin. Next week: new albums from the Smith Street Band, Naked Six and [Public] Enemy [Radio]. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's albums and our mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of all the new and classic albums we've reviewed on the pod, and Beeso's kids playlist 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 your unvarnished reckons are always welcomed via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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