tripping balls (a music podcast?)

Happening things, e-racing ridiculousness, Rob Moody for pope, old gold origin stories, NBA 2K vs HORSE, pandemic insurance, the NRL vs Channel 9 contractual deathmatch, seeing the other side, dead people are uneconomic, breaking: a billion Euro is a lot of money, BCCI on BCCI violence, Effed 1, 24 hour lemons, cricket nuffies be salty, the public health politics of restarting US leagues, Marko makes an absolute Helmut of himself, the AFR goes Logan’s Run, what price Alexander Downer’s holiday, advocating for dumb things and useful idiots. 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 Brisvegas-UK hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy, Geordie doom-metal bludgeoners Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and the pride of St Theresa's Catholic College Noosaville The Chats. Also this week: day drinking with Dr Mrs Beeso, first wave Oz MCs, fitball hiphop, yet-imaginary mixtapes, stop picking your own albums, core meltdowns, Staffo sez do yourself a favour, Beeso’s 10kg spud bag era, received wisdom, fact-checking punk songs, aging tools, outsourcing your mistakes, sad and/or indie, jumpsuit rock, were there any good Stones albums, fishing with muppets, Rube Goldberg machines and being drunk and disorderly. Next week: new LPs from Laura Marling and Rookie, while the Stones’ 1970 live album Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out! is our joker album for the week. 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: Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts V andVI, The Heavy Eyes, Jay Electronica, bulk atmospherics, gen X angst, cancelled export orders, All Blacks, album of the year of the week, starting slow, Gardening tips, new-old stock, psychologically baffled, Hillsong Hoods, coaching your kids, detox Donnas, having a story to tell, sad indie endies, seven little pigs and carnie cosplay. Next week: UK doom-metallurgists Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Brisneyland hiphop collab Hash Butta Synergy and performative Sunny Coast bogans The Chats. 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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A mini-BALLSpod on the Balls NBL franchise, local heroes, future stars, pre-draft prospecting, getting sent to Toowoomba, breaking: someone thinks about rugby, NRL Island, NBA plague ships, NFL in hazmat suits and left-wing viruses. 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: revisiting Beyonce’s Lemonade, new albums by Kingswood and Sky Valley Mistress, early morning takes, theoretical mixtapes, the New Wave Of Australian Yacht Rock, Previously… on tripping balls, ridiculous on purpose, breakdown service, no reservations, paying for the full hour, profitable draggings, the currency of pop, music in lockdown, I’m so rona-ry, inventing content, legacy cutoffs, Stig helmets, washed recognise washed, the greatest #DocReadsSpotifyBios in history, bold strategies, titular superheroes, here’s what this album is, Anti Stockdale, getting washed on your own album and the Extended Balls Universe. Your welcome. Next week’s new review albums are Jay Electronica, The Heavy Eyes and NIN’s Ghosts V andVI (just to be completists). 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 separately and together on Omny Studio, as well as on Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and your takes, reckons and feels are always welcome via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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It's not just music history Beeso has no idea about, so he asked basketball writer and twitter celebrity Steve Smith (no not that one, the other one) to come on and rewatch (or watch in Beeso's case) a classic Lakers vs Celtics matchup. So don't clean your screen, that's just standard definition 80s TV - and join us for Old Basketball Club.

Watch along: https://www.youtube.com/embed/xZDUCiobFMw

BALLS and tripping balls (a music podcast) 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 ambient electronica from Tycho and Swedish garage filth from The Goners, tripping balls, beige Nissans and white Landcruisers, it’s gotta be red, Wheel of Goon, pulp fiction covers, Swedish Ronseal, the problem with your band, grim endings, the Geoff Harvey Orchestra, self-backgrounding, self-advocating, cut and move, high-end hold music, tiny desks, what makes a good album (hint: not a compilation playlist from an energy drink reality show), strictly commercial, recent classics, therapy in public, biting the head off Ozzy Osbourne, complete bankers, the problem with algorithms and the plus side of covid cabin fever, plus some bonus Crankworx/WSL coverage. Next week: reviewing new albums by Kingswood and Sky Valley Mistress, and revisiting Beyonce’s Lemonade. 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: THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN! Community access ESPN radio, the Blighted Potato’s next job, the most ‘A-League’ A-League game in history, the most ‘Australian internet’ Australian internet in history, everything always feels like the Simpsons, it’s only the last four minutes of the quarter that’s a Covid risk, filming without fans, charity game cliques, toilet paper keepy-uppy challenges, being kind to gamer basement nerds, eRacing demarkation disputes, sideline interview security theatre, live calling the live call, BT in QT and overcatering for an 18 minute episode. BALLS and tripping balls (a music podcast) 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 on The Podcast Formally Known As BALLS After Dark: new albums from metal OG Ozzy Osbourne and Sydney indies Crocodylus, belated rebrands, the Chinese Democracy of hip hop, kicking over tentpoles, has anyone checked on 007, Covid’s worse enemy, Rik Mayall’s Backbreakers, bizarre collabs, boomer death songs, vocal tics, late era Lara, stay away from Post Malone, using up all your ideas, shouting your own name during sex, tight support acts, yes-anding incoherence, playing both kinds of music, participation prerequisites, Danger Mouse gets woke, narrative satisfaction, 80’s kids cartoon reboots, more Airwolf, what’s the Swedish for ‘Ronseal’, searching for modern EDM that’s not trash, chunky knitwear, Scott Hanson’s side hustle, Grammy noms ≠ listenable tunes, Twitter getting its shots up, chasing that Young LNP rage-listening audience, and living your life like a candle in the wind.

Next week: new stuff from US electronic artist Tycho and Swedish munters The Goners. 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: Everything is cancelled, both sides discourse, we know we say the the NBA playoff picture looks set but now it *really* looks set, getting mutual, the Brett Brown Experience, the Joey Fatone Experience, overrating Dray, the next Nets coach, the Kidd’s alright, owners ruining teams, Daryl needs to say less, the James Dolan of the west, the RickyBobbyfication of the NBA, Rudy for DPOY (he stopped the entire league), the saddest arms race, using Covid to litigate your pet causes, pivoting to rugby league, elbow dap, the womens T20 world cup final, does anyone else get creeped out when Beeso goes on about things being ‘pleasurable’, the Broncos are toilet and have been toilet, Canberra’s 10,610 most inappropriately enthusiastic people, six points short of the Premiership, getting that ‘rona off the Olympiakos owner, Western Europe’s leading public health spokesperson, #Liverpool #In #Crisis, who needs a break most, playoff pairings, listen to less Ringer podcasts and coronavirus was the winner on the day. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts (please subscribe, rate and review), and feel free to hurl your reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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