tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week you're in a slightly echoey room at Chateau D'Adamhfoto (blame idiot audio engineer Doc) for a live one on elite lineage, Rocket Russ, mostly ‘armless, kawaiting for Kawhi, the round mound of rebound, stat chasing, affording a rebuild, going big in LA, old people, cold world, Miami retirees, But The Warriors, Utah hipsters, regress to the meme, Ben’s to-do list, workplace relations, defend your suck, Starc awakenings, looting the counties, CWC postmortems, apologising for Ian Smith, awful people, getting over it, wronged underdogs, it’s New Zealand’s fault, #narrative, faded empire, the last USWNT World Cup win, the absolute state of Origin, punishing old heads, floor show included in the price of the ticket and slightly constipated French. 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 Skepta and the Racon-and-or-Saboteurs, plus: ironic Reschs, terrible words, correctly ordered noises, crushing stupidity, 90s disco, never  being mad, contractual obligations, Georgia’s Oasis, floor-to-ceiling compression, Albums I’m Not Sure About, TOFOP territory, the kids playlist, licking cane toads and welcome back to the jungle. Next week: Polish Club and King Gizzard with Adamhfoto. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (older stuff from 2019 archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are 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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EMERGENCY POD: Beeso and the Doc break down the two billion of your American dollars worth of insanity that was the first few hours of NBA free agency 2019, including KD and Kyrie to the Nets, the Dubs DLoad and go again, Enjoy Memphis, Miami and Philly play swapsies, the adult in the room, Pelicans bowerbirding, Barca’s transfer record, solid Jazz, Phoenix finally have a point, the Bucks get brave, duelling Deathstars, big swings and definitive calls, Kawhi so noncommittal, splitting your maxes, BREAKING: Boston is better than Charlotte, Dame’s D.O.L.L.A.s, spreading the talent, stars and scrubs, Team All-Load-Management, tampering: who cares, meet Matt in Temecula, the Jordan rules, Big Threes making sacrifices, Kawhi’s version of The Decision and KAT’s failed downloads. Listen on via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts and shout at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

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This week: Building a wall and getting the punters to pay for it, far more much more, making a small fortune in motorsport (out of a large one), long live the Amco Cup, doing too much, staying Melo, #FakeWojSzn, laughing less at the Lakers, failing upwards, KawhiMac, fringe benefits, do Space Jam 2 cameos count as third party payments, learn mathematics with Ivan Zamorano, Kemba Walks, the value of turning up and hanging around, RUOK Daryl, amateur pyrotechnics with Beeso, how bad can it be?, having a big three means also having a very small other twelve, Iggy selling books, gambling with your future, how good is schadenfreude, land of hope and little glory, that Starc delivery, sitting next to your replacement, free agent destinations, disruptive startups, rescheduling the awards, relitigating the awards, and Strong Dad Energy. 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: disproportionate arguments over new albums from Scots indie act Honeyblood and Mudbourne pub-punk ratbags Amyl and the Sniffers, plus bringing the heat, metta world core, sacking the drummer, blowing out the mics, way WAY more strident thing, everything is disappointing, unloaded questions, howling not wailing, strong magnetic forces, New Saints, Afrikaan Kaant, getting fake internet angry, frontloading your ideas, Drake vs the Beatles, lone genius tropes, never get Jack White to vacuum your lounge room, can’t we have nice things, new segments, Resin Dogs’ next career move, Homebake Retirement Village, the winery tour stage of life, the Shihad Memorial Festival Timeslot, opening acts and leaning too far into the bit. Next week: new albums from Skepta and the [Racon][Sabo]teurs. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (older stuff from 2019 archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are 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're old-person-phoning-in a NBA draft special on Beeso's failsuns, having more dollars than sense, Griff's GM masterclass, casual vs formal NBA fandom, the Spurs being back on theirs, laughing at Boston, throwing shade at the Knicks, Wojet's Thesaurus, tinfoil in Lakerdom, RIP Marvin, headless in Houston, the Chris Paul school of coaching, Salt Lake Conley, Clips going Raps, guaranteeing another Dubs title, feeding the monster, old Bulls, rekt by Shaq, Valiant efforts, eleven dead rubbers, the value of a cross, men are from Mars women freelance less on attack, kicking for touch, why does Messi even bother with this and Sunrise's new sports correspondent. Listen, rate and review more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

New albums from Loyle Carner and Dinosaur Pile-Up, making Drake look like Kawhi, featured bars, respect my agency, sad boys need beats too, Olangetti Returns, mixtape picks, Weeweezer, Los Angeleeds, conversations with FIDLAR, properly stupid, this is it folks over the top, Bogan Blondie, the international language of pop, old people with terrible opinions, roof-bound fiddlers and lawnmower fluid. Next week: Honeyblood and Amyl and the Sniffers. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (older stuff from 2019 archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are available elsewhere on the internet. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week, hours after the end of the NBA finals: Driving innovation, our comprehensive Le Mans preview, too tenuous for GoT, goodnight Oracle, ripples in spacetime, big wraps for the Raps, #StephAintClutch, Beeso: KD will never win another title, under pressure, get that bag, the Rob Green of the NBA Finals, dynasty gap years, who’s a baseball player, cluster luck, cumulative fatigue, next year’s Dubs, Kawhi’s choice, the Lakers getting AD, why do people live where it’s -20C all winter, Beeso’s line of credit is declined, blanking on Space Jam, still believing the Dubs will win this, being Gordon Ramsay cooked, being Channel 9 bad, a vulgar display of power, can you retire a jersey after one year, the Littlest Hobo, messy endings, mourning the KD-Kyrie Knicks, hating on Australia-Italy, crosses to bear, career fates worse than death, choreographed celebrations at 13-0, cricket is all about timing, burning Uz to save Davey, girt by Marshes, cheer up Nasser, having a semi, the big three killed my baby and why international basketball is terrible. Listen, rate and review more BALLS and After Dark via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and talk back to us via Twitter,Facebook and email.

This week: new albums from previous pod faves Black Mountain and Satan Takes A Holiday, lawnmower siphoning, hell is other people’s children, a little bossanova, a bit 2015, prog throwbacks, Floydian subtweets, do more riffs, searching for equilibrium, circular standup, nonagon to infinity, playing for a draw, meeting your contractual obligations, rejecting maturity, brief self-indulgences, clapped out Datsuns, Berlin heroin Bowie, junk from midrange, never go back, the nicer end of South London, Olangetti, Hillsong surrogates, DIY bios, never go full Grohl, more self-indulgences, shamateur music classification, smells like Nirvana, the decline and fall of New Rock, the acquiring of tastes and Doc invents a new pod segment.

Next week: Loyle Carner’s feelings-based hiphop and Dinosaur Pile-Up’s thrash metal cassette. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (older stuff from 2019 archived here), along with our 2019 After Dark Mixtape of our favourite tracks from albums reviewed this year. Our 2018 AD Mixtape and full list of review albums are available elsewhere on the internet. You can get BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.

This week: Stars and bars, Copa Australia, Latin style, for exposure, Starc observations, expert opinions, shouts to Western Sydney, ready for prime time, a remarkably coherent and reasonably well-informed Womens World Cup preview, nightly narratives, already incorrect NBA Finals game 4 predictions, Steph's LeBron moment, owners getting owned, The Worldwide Leader In Takes, Spurs succession planning, Nick Nurse wears a hat, Kawhi can't draw, in the weeds of the weeds, what are Brooklyn up to, Kyrie goes Full Spooky Mulder, Banana Boat LA, Toronto vs the rest of Canada, board man gets paid, cricket world cupdates, the last next big thing, in defence of being mercurial and Doc does his dough. Get more BALLS and After Dark in your ears via Omny Studio,Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and hurl reckons at us via Twitter, Facebook and email.