tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week's new episode is brought to you by Malcolm Turnbull's Australian Internet, which is to say it's not brought to you at all. Instead, enjoy this archive ep from August 2015 in which a not-in-any-way-completely-lit Beeso and the Doc review a new release from theatrical dramatists Muse, an album from the bottom of the heart and/or a can by gurning Strayan punks Cosmic Psychos and a classic turn-of-the-century cut from So-Cal hiphop artists Ugly Duckling. Also this ep: umedjen origin stories, John Cusack movies, JK Rowling's editors, the invention of Beesoing, nominative determinism, antisocial functions and Beeso's forever war against the Fauves. Original shownotes for this ep are on our old site Lantanaland. Back next week with new Primus and the Killers, and classic Deep Purple Machine Head. Review albums are on our After Dark Spotify album playlist while this year's best tracks from review albums are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape. 

In which Beeso and the Doc get dragged down a 2018 World Cup qualifying side alley (relitigating America's mistakes and getting rinsed in Blacktown) before recapping last year's BALLS NBA preview/team draft, aka The One Where Beeso Got Knickrolled (spoilers!) Then we're off previewing the 2017-18 NBA regular season by way of drafting teams from the West and the East, on the way getting into good and gooderer, house wins, being offensively useful (vs usefully offensive), coaching uncoachables, looking like a muppet, Ewing Theory, scrums and rockfights, feast on the east, learning nothing from your holidays, finals reps, pointguardlessness, on-brand relevance, as an idiot, worse doctors than the Doc, garbage in the Pacific, big ups for sucking, Job #1, insufferable internet people, down on the upside, one injury from irrelevance, massive karma sucks, net gains, forming walls, huffing glue, expiring players on expiring contracts and getting sabotaged in real time. We'll post our full team draft listings in the shownotes to our traditional Massive Overreactions To The First Three Days Of The NBA Season episode, next week.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss having an hour and a half spare, background music, foreground music, Datsuns from Berlin, party political statements, taking Marx off, third acts, NOOOOEEEELLL, source material, the best of Sabbath, 20 years of Grinnin', giving up on Gizzard, what's this for and electoral roles. This week we reviewed new albums from throwback German metallurgists Kadavar, Los Angelean players of the punk rock music the Bronx, and Gotan Project which is a Franco-Argentine electronica tango album because of course it is. Next week: new Primus and the Killers, old Deep Purple Machine Head. Review albums are on our After Dark Spotify album playlist while this year's best tracks from albums we've reviewed are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape. 

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss NBL in leopard print, Squires on point, SFC moving suburbs, boutique grounds, arena touch football, picking the Knicks, noone's got more sports gear, Simmons SZN, expendable Cavs, coachwatch, junior F-bombs, midseason shape, Sydney driving, AUS v USA, FS1's hometown support, argumentative television, enter Sandman, #WalkAndUnite and Fox tell Ten to go eff one.

In which Beeso and a sub-optimal Doc chime in on the Catalan referendum, washed trumpet bands, selling out with Eddie tonight, 20 years later, shouts to @mormolyke, something new, the world's greatest cover album, The Message, version variances, artist's recreations, big bottoms, blue and green should never be seen without a party in between, Hardcore Punky Brewster, not being weird enough, Beeso's week on @WeAreBrisbane, moving concrete and fading down. This week's albums were Prophets of Rage's debut/comeback, the Black Seeds' Fabric and Wolfmother's self-titled classic from 2005. Next week: Kadavar, the Bronx and Gotan Project (who turn out to be from Paris, which explains why noone asks Beeso for travel directions in Europe) from 2001. Review albums are on our After Dark Spotify album playlist while this year's best tracks from albums we've reviewed are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape. For further RATM-related content check out BALLS After Dark.51, our Rage Against The Machine special (in which their debut was up for classic debate) from last year.

In which Beeso and the Doc delay the pod until after this weekend's grand finals in order to properly discuss the Victor Oladipo Difference, ill communications, not talking about the NBA, the Melbourne Spurs, We$tbrook, fake Banana Boat news, Rox vs OKC, Dana nana nana nanantoni, Ancient Athens Olympic Melo, Beeso capes for peak iso Kobe, highly imprestive, winning matchups, giving rest a rest, sucking properly, home ground advantage, dynasties and fairytales, east vs west, hits and memories, happy to be there, we get retweets, helping Usher, misdirected heat, HHRBFDRTW, VAG rules everything around me, Trump vs the shield, NFL vs NCAAB deadpool, allies vs enemies and Where Was He Radicalised. Source material for the NFL chat: Ringer NFL Show Future Of NFL special pod and Mina Kimes/Dom Foxworth on ESPN's Nickel Package pod talking about NFL owners' co-option of player protests (amongst other stuff).

In which, ahead of next week's Black Seeds-tinged ep of After Dark, we dig into the archives for a very FWTB*-adjacent AD from 2015 in which Beeso and a heavily craft-beer-festival-enhanced Dr Yobbo review then-new Fat Freddy's Drop (and the Seeds' live set at aforementioned-craft-beer-festival), Lyrics Born, and the 2001 Dandy Warhols classic 13 Tales From Urban Bohemia.

None of those are on our After Dark album review playlist on Spotify but next week's albums (Prophets of Rage, those Seeds and Wolfmother's self-titled debut) are. Our favourite tracks from albums we've reviewed YTD are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape. 

*You know what this is (hit the original Lantanaland shownotes for this ep if not)

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss being Brisbane, passes conceded, on the fringes, tweeting the score and getting out of the way, yes and no, golden generations, the war for women, regional rep touch, big in Japan, saving rugby, PNG in the NRL, we're not talking about the NBA, Bogut to the Lakers, Melo to Portland?, four syllable burns, Tweetdeck hygiene, sub-optimal Seb, just play harder, making bad decisions in series, solid sixes and avoiding arrest. 

In which Beeso and the Doc talk joke picks, narrow bands, bits of purple, number five with a bullet, old people get woke, the bleak Crows, gnashing pingaaazz, core values (here's Beeso caping for STP in a classic album ep from the vault), lazy titles, FWTB* supergroups, why are there so many songs about muppets, getting noise into heads, everything is a remix of Everything Is A Remix, official bootlegs, ...WORLD and Good Parenting 101. This week we reviewed new albums from grunge throwbacks Sasquatch, PNW OAP supergroup Filthy Friends and Sonic Animation tribute act the Presets with their 2009 effort Apocalypso. Next episode: Prophets of Rage's debut album (after about 150 collective years in the business), FWTB* royalty The Black Seeds and Wolfmother's self-titled classic from '05. Current and recent review albums are archived for your listening pleasure on our After Dark Spotify album playlist while our favourite tracks of the year to date from albums we've reviewed are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape. Beeso is guesting on the rotation-curation Twitter account @WeAreBrisbane this week, telling tall tales and true (including stories from his Alley/Rev venue-managing days).

*Yobbo & Beesley (2015), BALLS After Dark volume 1 edition 28. In a remarkable bit of confluence the After Dark ep in which we reviewed the last big new release from FWTB royalty (Fat Freddy's Drop) was also the ep in which the Doc recorded a podcast after an all-day craft beer festival... 

In which Beeso and the Doc talk lottery numbers, half the NBA being below average, random Yeats, Melo vs Lonzo, retire (Kobe's numbers) bish, burying the Leeds, championship IP, why all Olympic stadia should be bulldozed, zombie liveblogs, overpowering Cologne, bargain bin jerseys, Nike's terrible templates, suns out guns out, choose your own adventure, banana pecking orders, unpalatable frustration, F1's three team trade, the power and the passion, the gift of brain damage, the art of sandbagging, you'll float (like a butterfly), shouts, Swans culture, the Doc reverse-jinxes GWS and best bets in the NRL finals series.