tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week on the After Dark: new albums from from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly, our Top 10s of the 2010s album playlist, I ain’t going back to that mill, Thai gorillas, grime will tear itself apart again, crossover winners, social stratification by media choice, melted Goths, court out, a time when all was brown, CORTINA FACTS!, how to get popular, your fave could never, larger training groups, January blues, write about what you know, very much our areas, old as Dirt, Ronseal legacy acts, run to the Alex Hills, plugging bothparts of our decade retrospective, putting it out there and Men At Woodwork.  Next week: new albums from Bombay Bicycle Club and Dune Rats. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify, along with our full archive of last year's review albums and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from therein. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. 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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This week: we farewell Kobe, draft All Star rosters, preview the Super Bowl and determine the logistics and efficacy of hiding behind a baby. Also: Sixers hypothEltoncles, the Timberwolvezzzzzzz, the Knicks’ big night, Kobe's complicated legacy, not expecting to make 30, media insider therapy sessions, Jordan cosplay, Olympic Kobe, the eternal outsider, LeBron vs Kobe, the Andrew Johns of NBA mentorship, vale Mr Peanut, unique tributes, fake All Star snubs, glorified Globetrotters runs, hearing French footsteps, Beeso’s dilemma, our All Star draft, pan-African unity tickets, getting value for superstars, Kobefied ASG formats, drafting for need, Lillard vs Westbrook, a big ol’ stinking pile of East, USA vs the United Nations, the Pels’ hot seat, the MDA of the NFL, alternatives to choking, ineffective human shields, keeping your cool stuff off film, Tom Brady felt cute might delete later, 73 and a chip vs 73 or a chip, only 14 wins back of the 8 seed and deliver us from Yobbo. Get more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and tell us your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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Part two of our After Dark special (part one is available here), featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, sun-drenched sugar hits, Bae of Islands, disappointingly prescient, painting your ceiling, good for parts only, how Swede it is, the most of this sound, DIY dance instructionals, Joe Ingles colour charts, D-Rose for MVP, the five year rule, spirit silverbacks, curbed enthusiasm, veteran mentorship, Lavar Beeso, relatable content, like everything else worth saying TISM said this 20 years ago, commercial FM occasionally works, first things first, recency bias, the difficult second album, critical snubs, write-in candidates, the kids are all wrong, comeback stories, shots fired, Captain Datestamp, bring out your dead, no bad ideas (no good ideas either), fake diversity, synth and chloroform, decade countdowns from regular guests Dan, Ben and Adam, the butterfly effect, CORTINAS! and Andrew Stockdale invents time travel.

Next week: new albums from the Courteeners and The Good The Bad & The Zugly. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify.).Last year's review albums are archived here, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. 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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Part one of our After Dark special featuring our top ten albums of the last ten years, weird niche Venn overlaps, Big Kev areas, The Billie Eyelash ASMR Hour, the last days of CDs, Win95 insta skins, 1990s albums of the week, splitting hairs, Oscar obsolescence, discovering new music, reordering old music, #FreeJanet, work whistlers, first and last tracks and Gen X punishers. Part two available here. 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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No new NBA pod this week (vale Kobe) but here’s a mini-pod on Leeds doing the thing, West Brom and West Ham, the hard reset of relegation and the Sunderland Vortex. Coming soon: our After Dark Top 10s of the 2010s album special. Get more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and tell us your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: our annual AOTY special, featuring Beeso and the Doc’s top five albums of 2019 from releases reviewed on the pod last year, along with our Oz and NZ AOTYs, favourite legacy albums and general thoughts on the year just passed. Also: Dry Six Days In January, ambling pre, blaming the world in general for your poor choices, picking stuff you like, no loylety, manufactured intensity, hard crossovers, let’s do five, who’s got next, Raleigh New Zealand, Norwegian wood, cheap kills, protest music, dating caravan park DJs, Butchered albums, mislabelled mixtapes, misguided thrashes, sneaking up the tower, meeting your contractual obligations, bonsai desks, less talk more action, Spotify don’t lie, sweaty Arenas, EPL tax write-offs, Ronseal albums, nothing sweet about Britain, get another job, stop being woke, chasing stars, tiers before bedtime, next week’s Top 10s of the 2010s episode, dusting off iTunes, the greatest potato chips of 2015, recency bias, and  making declarative statements that most certainly won’t come back to bite one in the backside. Next week: our top albums of the last ten years, pre- and post-podcast. Tell us yours - hit us up on socials (links below). All our 2019 review albums are archived on this Spotify playlist, along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums (2015-19) and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. 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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This week: I'm on the Night Hawk (and I'm ready to crash and burn), turning up, heroism in futility, counting the wrong thing, lost storylines from forgotten cities, Melo > Memphis, marketing the stars, engineering Giannis to the Bay, big markets vs small markets, not here for photo ops, the backfiring supermax, coaching cosplay, the Jim Dolan of the NFL, the OC (not that one), tiers in the West, flying Pelicans, Memphis Fizzlies, what's Mike Conley doing and/or for, the Skate Instructor, eighth with a wet sail, the Jacques Kallis Perpetual Trophy, will the real LA Clippers please stand up, picking apart the Lakers, Coach Taylor, 60-win Hawks in Cream City jerseys, bootleg Heatles, the Golden State Galacticos, Adams vs Drummond, Mark Cuban's relationship issues, elite touching, fixing the Sixers, Brett Brown hits the disappointed dad stage, for the love of god shut up Kyrie, bargain bin Exum jerseys, all change, BBL cricket > ODI cricket, bewildering calendars, performative feminism and the importance of making stuff. Coming in midweek: our BALLS After Dark 2019 Album Of The Year Special. 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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This week: our final new albums of 2019 courtesy Alabama Shakes' Brittany Howard and Welsh noisemakings' Pretty Vicious. Also: what firetwirlers do in a total fire ban, boring end-of-decade arguments, did imaginary dragons write this list, guest host Flipper, making a Foo Fighters album, college sports should be cancelled, college rock may well have been, Georgia v Alabama, the colour and the sound, heavy foreshadowing, things you might have missed, 81 not out, stealing sunshine, the best Christmas movie, the Ringer occasionally gets it, Not Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Soderbergh is washed, best year of the decade, the Sad Indie 500, High Fidelity II: Fidelity Higher (yeah yeah the original was set in Chicago), Beeso’s midlife crisis year and life advice for 2020.

Have a great end of year break - we're back in mid-Jan with our Album Of The Year Special for 2019. You can find review albums from recent eps on our album review playlist on Spotify, where you'll also find our full archive playlist of all our review albums from 2019 and our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums 2015-19 and Beeso's kids playlist are also available elsewhere on the internet. 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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From a netherworld outside time and space we close out 2019 with Boxing Day basketball, Pat Bev comparisons, breaking up the WWWWWWarriors, the Tilman Fertitta of Serie A, swirling solar chaos, being dedicated to dumb maths, either/or but not both, Sam Hinkie ain't walking through that door, Thibs declines to stop collaborate or listen, Cavs West, getting upset on Christmas Day, responsible grownups in Denver, Luka back doing Luka things, handicapping the Iggy Sweepstakes, Conley for CP3, revisiting Lob City, bringing down the LeBron Death Star, being old school vs just being old, Miami Jimmy vs Minny Jimmy, six good teams and a spitfight, changing Spurs culture, posting up KP on Peter Dinklage, deliberately washed contrarianism, who the hell is Mike Cuban, NZ cricket fans >>>> NZ cricket players, at least one Kiwi team turned up in Victoria this weekend, Liverpool have now won everything except the thing they actually want to win, Premier League plastics, promotion prospects, Beeso's Big Bash coverage, human highlight machines, unsolicited double overtime, Mel-No and ending on a showtune. 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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This week: new albums from self-reflecting Scientologist Beck and Warrnamboolian warriors Airbourne, the perils of in-store radio, facts vs feels, do something nice for yourself this Christmas, breaking: AC/DC aren't like Radiohead, complexity through simplicity, last of their line, the Wolfmother effect, who's got next, Tame Impala B-roll, everlasting nothing, Spidey Bells, scared of bird attack, Scandicanadians, end of year cowards, Tone Deaf hiphop takes, better social commentary than Slowthai, weapons not food not homes not schools not need just feed the war cannibal animal eye, Mike Patton nonce music, let's go Sharks, unintended consequences, lyrics look stupid, ornery and indifferent vocals and outsourcing your bio. Next week's final new albums of 2019: Brittany Howard and Pretty Vicious. Current & recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our full list of review albums and Beeso's kids playlist are also available. 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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