tripping balls (a music podcast?)

A warm stream of rugby, upsetting baby boomers, That Concludes Our Rugby League Coverage, Sapporo spin classes, Melbourne stays being Melbourne, livecalling bad AFL games, rings in the record book, you can’t spell playoffs without LA, beat reporter delusions, laughable losers, bringing rugby league to New York, the fine line between stupid and clever, you (literally) hate to see it, weird Western Sydney fixations, kitchen cabinets, topping out at OK, congratulations you played yourself, epic burners, rescheduling free agency, billionaire babies, Frittata done a book, regimented offseasons, holiday reading, your #2 commentary team, the Insert Obvious Joke Here Cup, a tale of two Cities, good advertisements for the WNBA, a new guest host, the Pep Era, Chelsea’s kids are alright and previewing our preview. 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 Holy Holy and DZ Deathrays, which one of the music, holy psychos, inflatable dinghy rock, it’s actually not 1976, Richard Stamos can’t hit a high F, the Doc makes new friends, owning your cheese, dance punk revolution, noise that works, Unit might not be a fair benchmark for Difficult Sophomore Albums, front-loaded music years, stopthai, not understanding American music writers, Instagram influencers, sentient meat pies, filling for time, Norway via Portland, Beeso Reads Bios, points for enthusiasm, the grunge Stockdale, Yobbo Bingo, Smoo Cave, social in-grouping and the death of regional slang. The Modern Times’ Algorithmic Dance Music and The Delta Riggs’ Modern Pressure are The Albums next on The Schedule for The After Dark of The Balls Podcast. In your face, An Ohio State University. Current and 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 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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White boomers on Maori Television, replacement level rosters, changing your holiday plans, stomping on ants’ nests with an elephant, no Smokes in New York, Eau de Colangelo, Lloyd George Knew My Father (Father Knew Lloyd George), sliding doors, enjoying the experience of being effed over, hustle and slop, Bogut’s a bad example, the trolls of Iguoldala, Beeso name-drops his holiday plans, #AlwaysWatchBetis, eyyyyy Epstein, the Bielsa model, heinous Luc Longley slander (though tbf he had a hell of a comeback line), Big 3 Delly, no dead rubbers, Still Hating On Mitch Marsh Island, permanently injuring yourself to get better at a kids’ game, the weakest bladder in world cricket, I pay your salary m8, LL Ull J, player empowerment NFL style, billionaires advocating for slave labour, AFLoWn goals, gurning idiots, the slow death of international sport and live-calling the various doomed overtimes of Spain vs ‘the most talented team left in this tournament’ #FreezingSportsTakes. 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 the Damned Things and Tropical Copulation Storm, dunking on stuff you don’t like, supergroups?, forgotten conversations, words you couldn’t use on the cover of Picture magazine in 1995, texting your parts, too cool for school, Gizz get real, Pacmanning through the hospital pharmacy, can’t get any let alone enough, fire and electrical, the hidden shame of Generation X, please Hammer don’t hurt ‘em, taking advice from Facebook, Noel vs Grohl, season 1991/92, Stockholmmm syndrome, Doc does maths, Beeso forgets 2015, a night at the opera, private schools in the former Yugoslavia and a bunch of After After Dark nonsense. Next week: DZ Deathrays and Holy Holy. Current and 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 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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Evergreen content (thanks Smudge), Maroon Free State, Fant-Asians Out, the exact opposite of evergreen content (thanks Starc and AB), Dave Warner’s car, Livingstone’s doctor I presume, tanked Mancs, missed conversions, Thursday Night Football is very Thursday Night Football, the Belichick Coaching Shrub, ancient triangles, America discovers international basketball, the Life Comes At You Fast All-Stars, flat basketball talent, not THAT Steve Smith, death to received wisdom, bolshie Balkans, home ground finals, state corruption power rankings, car shopping with Russ Hinze, yoyo clubs vs YOLO clubs, accidentally supporting Mike Ashley, planning our NBA beer bet wins pod, Peroni’s major sausage, Doc brings the tone down, explaining the Rockets using smartphones and explaining Beeso using childhood anecdotes. 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 King Gizzard &c. and Jade Imagine, towards 200, too many options, our views on old Tools, banned in Queensland, an expensive way to play cassettes, Problematic Bay, the Brisbane Music Graveyard, hard bands to google, a lack of umedgination, sit down and shut up, outkicking your coverage, Beesoing 2.1, everything is a concept album, holes in the sky, tfw you’re not as clever as you think you are, starkly terrible Ben Elton novels, the perils of overanalysing the narratives of prog-thrash space operas, the Church of Latter Day Gizz, original source material*, give ‘em a taste of Kiwi, more ungoogleable bands, unlikely Spice Girls remixes, decolonising the future, Elon’s Ark B, the satireproof president, not out here to look clever, yo dawg I heard you like solos so I put solos on your solos and the reasonable supposition that a rock is indeed out of the question.

Next week: Tropical Shag Storm (ffs) and improbable supergroup The Damned Things. Current and 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 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.

*Look it’s basically Sabbath albums 3 through 6 smashed into the geometric mean of Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning, with a dash of 1979/80 Motörhead for energy.

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The Doc’s doctorate was not in mathematics, flex on ‘em, the NFL is BACK, leaving it to the audience, hands-on owners, Knickstarter campaigns, Luck’s a fortune, the RG3-Luck draft class (fun fact: it also had Russ and Kaep), Brooklyn stays Melo, Iso Joe has a go and gets a go, quarterback comebacks, the Anton Oliver of the NFL, offensive offensive line play, Sean McVay’s friends, caravans and franking credits, England 1 (Jeffers 69) Australia 3 (Popovic 17, Kewell 41, Emerton 83), this matters, there are name Canadian NBA players?, the point of college sports, gingers from Christchurch, Y not, Penfold’s whines, this effing guy, the candy man can’t, extremely online, this just in: Beeso hates the Lakers, congratulations you played yourself, why are the Suns, the Shire can put a happy clapper in Kirribilli but can’t outdraw the GWS Giants, and you can’t spell Leeds without a big L. 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 old bands Ride and Sleater-Kinney, missing the rain down in Lanka, things we forgot, things we remembered, hammock recaps, altered states, it’s not me it’s not you, party Pils, 25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination, do the evolution, glorified drum machines, midlife crises, buns akimbo, difficult second comeback albums, lego kickstarters, poison pie, firefights, staying on message, prodigal returns, 2016 deep dives, cool Britannia (lol), every year is the greatest year in music, umedgen that and artist-submitted bios. Next week: King Gizzard have a thrash and Jade Imagines. Current and 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 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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Marvel superhero vision, localised Fyres, explaining the internet, enough Jofra, drop-in hold-outs, Lions roaring, Fev-en years bad luck, our not-at-all-outdated-and-prisoner-of-the-moment third test coverage, Australians have no class, insufficient highlights, offending your Pop, shadow puppets, the Burnley of world basketball, rank rugby, triple-out-of-quadruple crowns, win it or bin it, the inherent problem with motorsport, the Sterling Affairs, everything is David Stern’s fault, Hov sells out to the NFL and forgettable Final acts. 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 Ty Segall and the Teskey Brothers, rugby songs, shirts from 1971, Bibendum goes gardening, hey hey we’re the Drunkees, making a small fortune from Tumblr, cultured subcultures, drinking from firehoses, stop thinking too hard, plug your guitar in m8, Motown for white people, heavy beats, discovering Discover Weekly, songs about gambling, gym muzak, Six N Out, Tommy Lee has views, outsourcing your choices, examining your preconceptions, fifteen year breakups, bad protest music, the good spoons, four letter words and living in the now. Next week: living in the 90s via Sleater-Kinney's unheld centre and Ride’s unsafe place. Current and 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 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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