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.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss Mike Patton sex music, melting test patterns, magic flaps, the spy who phoned in from the cold, a really good question, experiential filler, anthems for washed broke GenXers, symphonic goth, bring the beat back, hydraulic failure, peaks and valleys, Fourmyula #1*, the dominion forever, resignation letters, more of what you hate, the other one, reset your presets, YMMV, family court father's day, Don't Think and worldwide sandstorms. This week's new albums were by UNKLE and Saskwatch while Tame Impala's InnerSpeaker was the Doc's classic. Next week: Sasquatch (see what we did there), Filthy Friends and the Presets' Apocalypso (2009). That and previous review fodder are the After Dark album playlist while our favourite tracks of the year to date are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape.

*Nature wasn't actually the first local #1 on NZ charts, but it was a hit for both the Fourmyula and the Muttonbirds 20+ years apart and was voted the greatest ever NZ pop song in 2001. Obviously Wandering Eye hadn't been released yet, much to the chagrin of cafe owners nationwide. 

In which Beeso and the Doc talk BALLS and Boon, #OzPod2017, the world's greatest web series, Missed It By That Much, homeopathic dilutions, Twiggy's end game, we're not talking about the NBA, storms in Houston, the LA Not-Rams, another Tony Martin, shouts to our Cantabrian listeners, amplified polarisation, thank you for not footballing, getting mental illness ironically, Michael Sam 2.0, Heritier Lumumba: a name you'll never forget, the Melbourne Storm of the AFL, the death of Origin, apologies to Dave Warner, carried by the GOAT, bowlin' darts ay, HHRBFDRTW, may the best man win?, Desmo Dovi discovers himself, the Redlands badlands, the best coach you've never heard of, the game's greatest thinker, the face of the Gold Coast, the Lakers are not good at this stuff, the aliens, splitting hairs, second best in the west, Beeso hates on MDA, properly rating PG-13, IT in the Players Trib, IPA snowflakes, Euro qualifiers, Australia vs America and a load of CONMEBALLS. Ep background image stolen from here.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss being on the red, too fast for love, Weekend At Tammy's, dot dot dot, hello 1975, perfect storms, overusing the porcelain, one trick Thibs, ultimate muzak, spot the Seppo, Sunday coffee music, the unbearable triteness of hipster album titles and kicking it live.

This week's new albums were Queens Of The Stone Age's Villains and that '70s band Sheer Mag's Need To Feel Your Love while Moby's Play was our classic. Next week: UNKLE, Saskwatch (as distinct from Sasquatch) and Tame Impala's InnerSpeaker (2010). All of those are now on the After Dark album playlist along with the winner of last week's Beasties Classic Album Royal Rumble (spoilers.) Our favourite tracks from AD-review albums are on the 2017 After Dark Mixtape.

Background music (previous After Darks referenced this week):
AD.87 - Rated 'R' by QOTSA (classic album)
AD.68 - War Stories by UNKLE (classic album)
AD.15 - Currents by Tame Impala (new album review)
AD.09 - Sorry I Let It Come Between Us by Saskwatch (new album review)

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss voting for Pedro, Mal Beck, 2020 visions of the Kyrie trade, why the Knicks need a FanTV channel, buying in a seller's market, Barcenal and Arselona In Crisis, the Week in Wood, Bangers can smash, people are idiots, Stevo Keef, faction too much friction, AB with less talent, a new entry for the BALLS Podcast drinking game, Kimber on Edwards, which bank?, scoop news, building fewer roads, Dizzee deletes Lewis' number, Sky falling for NZ rugby?, Twiggy Forrest planning to make a small fortune (out of a large one), scrums, sportswomen of the year, is it over?, shouts to Danny, more than you are and vale Mike Cockerill.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss TayTay getting dragged, listening to Motörhead, new model Macs, Tim goes country, it's a free podcast, not made for me, new-old stock, clapping back at the Godfather, work experience track ones, collab-oral damage, why Americans hate grime, the hidden hand of EDM, storytime with Diz, inequality and all that sort of stuff, Royal Rumble, the Doc's unexpurgated PhD thesis on the back catalogue of the Beastie Boys 1986-2011, Leisure Suit Jerry, woke communication, mapping boroughs, the pointlessness of Walmart, honourable mentions, failed psychics, Paul's (Has It All), apologies to Ugly Duckling, splitting hairs, consensus sequences, shouts to Molly Lambert, absolute burglars, Done By '01 and the BALLS After Dark Complaints Resolution Service. This week we reviewed new albums from grime originator Dizzee Rascal and Strayan soulstress Meg Mac, as well as debating which of the Beastie Boys' back catalogue deserves to be called classic (we'll add the consensus #1 to the After Dark album playlist in a week or so, to help you dodge spoilers.) Our 2017 After Dark Mixtape is also a thing. Next week: QOTSA are Villains, Sheer Mag Need To Feel Your Love and Moby got some Play back in the day.

The regulars return to prosecute the cause of Beeso for Blues coach, why aren't the Walkers candidates for the Titans gig, who is Rick Alderman, four in fives, League Pass packages, time-slipping Twitter, trading Kyrie for IT + Crowder + the Nets pick*, Kyrie and Brad, timelines and trajectories, paying overs for IT, D-WADE TO THE CAVS (is a thing World Wide Wob probably made up), various Jaylens, mana, the Cavs front office appear functional, Suns SOS, forever young, there's always one idiot, old sprinters, FX in full effect, joining the Joyride, Semenuk's 89.8 straight out of the gate and the power of scoreboard pressure, I like big jumps and I can not lie, Polish randos, Julie Anthony hair, patron saints of the BALLS Podcast, unwashed balds, LCFC and LFC, Barca's massive overpay and an unexpected and frankly unsustainable amount of Ligue Un (pronounced Leg Urn) analysis.

*Which may be annulled by IT having a bung hip, so get in and listen while our #content is still remotely legitimate

The Doc and In Case Of Emergency Break Glass guest host Adamhfoto get into pouring one out for their lost recording, man hands, That Band You Be, bywords for beige, pub rock, polite kids, nuanced violence, Dimebag vs douchebags, disaffected white angst, 14 going on 40, wedding anthems, vulgar displays of punning, tiki torch tiki tours, the evolution of metal, when your heroes fall, therapy? (not the band), Popallica, listen all a' y'all it's the wine list and take me to the river. 

This week's review albums were the new one from the  Strypes and a vulgar display of Pantera. Beeso and the Doc are back next week when we'll review new Dizzee Rascal and Meg Mac. Check out the After Dark album playlist for all that and more. Also next week: the Beastie Boys Classic Album Royal Rumble: eight albums enter, one album gets added to the After Dark playlist. Our 2017 After Dark Mixtape is also a thing. 

Postscript: Pantera frontman makes fascist salute? I did nazi that coming

With Beeso on injured reserve, the Doc is joined by a very special guest host for a BALLS mini-sode on NBA scheduling, Kawhi and Kyrie, massive overreactions to the first week and a half of the EPL, the absolute state of domestic cricket, the end of Australian rugby and encouraging the practice of riding bicycles around and/or off things. Beeso and the Doc will be back next week, unless one or both of them contract cholera, mange, dropsy, the clap, hard pad or athlete's head.