tripping balls (a music podcast?)

In which Beeso and the Doc talk wanting more of the same, white on black violence, getting over the bens, time and place, live at the Zoo, home brewing tips, big acts in small spaces, finishing moves, why 98% of people won't repost this, welcome to Jazz Club (grrreat), unprincipled protohipsters, the Doc manages to crowbar-in jokes he forgot to do last week, CONTINUE, no capitals, all-organic Discover Weekly, Crowes v Keys, laneway festivals, story time with Beeso, Billie Joe's new career, box-ticking exercises, Bernard albums, 1996 things, lightning in a bottle, podcast patch kids, deep heads and tumbleweeds. In order of review, this week's classic was The Black Keys' Thickfreakness; the new albums were courtesy BadBadNotGood and Rival Sons. Next week: JEFF The Brotherhood, Deap Vally and Cake's Fashion Nugget. Find each in their entirety on the BALLS Podcast Spotify Playlist, with our picks of oh-one-six on our Spotify Mixtape.

In which Beeso and the Doc review the AFL GF, preview the NRL GF, and talk close games versus good games, simple premises for simple people, don't @ me, edited highlights, getting the clap, Purple Queensland, 404 errors, money can't buy me wins, Wiki pedia, #IndividualBrilliance, plastic startups and loss leaders, Big Sam's career goes bung, Saturday I've got Wednesday on my mind, the Lineup of Deathstar, Embiid 1 Simmons 0, farewell KG, vale Max Walker, dual-sport stars, white Borderline fever, normal service resumed, the Formerly V8 Supercars people do a thing, big name imports, Newy NIMBYs, Nike third kits, less than Leicester and sacking Bob Murphy. Remember the BALLS Podcast, and Avagoodweekend.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss music versus television, making weird noises, passing the buck, artisanal mayonnaise, sneer and 'tude, whither cowpunk, Butch's stripes, reverse Midas, grunge-punk shit-takes, choices vs limitations, Hunters + Producers, it's all been done, Before They Were U2, Dave and Bernard, gravel rash, show your working, technical difficulties, Local Music Scene Celebrity Head, (The Return Of) The Secret Track, Ocean views, time and place, Good King Relentlessness, the Doc's forever war against power ballads, Beeso falls down a toilet repeatedly and patch protection (BYO carpet tape). This week's new albums were Spend The Night With Cheena and Savage Kings by Barrence Whitfield & the Savages with Powderfinger's Double Allergic working the classic shift on its 20th birthday. Next week: BadBadNotGood, Rival Sons and 2003-vintage Black Keys. This and next week's albums are always on our BALLS After Dark Playlist, with our 2016 picks up on the Mixtape. Hit @beeso up if you'd be interested in a BALLS patch.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss the following issues and/or topics: Essendon's Jobe seekers, Feminism For Men, the Shire's greatest achievement, Beeso cannot geography, everyone hates GWS, where pro sports go to die, Old England Patriots, VG (Victory over Garbage) Day, Never Simmons, Brady to the Browns, cleaning up slimy releases, Wrong Way Marty, statistical evidence that ownership of landlines correlates strongly with ownership of garbage bigoted worldviews, back to the front, unexpected yet entirely on-brand Harambe references, the hidden cost of protests, giving good crowd, Gemma Atherton is not an English actress (nor is she a mountain bike rider because Beeso cannot remember people's names either), five stripes on the shirt, dying to compete, the only place further down the totem pole of washedupedness than Mosgiel club rugby, underdog rep selections, Justin Thurston, narrative versus reality, Kane is able, Timchell Starcthee, live score updates from games that ended days ago, Wil to win, Chris Bosh takes on the Heat/the league/the ravages of time, tutorials with Tim, electric cars in hipster NY neighbourhoods, telecommuting to a title and patchy endings.

In which Beeso and the Doc talk nihilism, US vs UK origins of punk, doing the pop, is grime today's British punk, pour less sugar on me, reviewing by Google autocomplete, carping on, who's winning at After Dark, Discover Weekly 2015 Edition, #Hottest100HotTakes, girls like that (don't go for pods like ours), Brisbane v Melbourne bands, Mr Faker, peak festival, Darren and the other one, Dave McCormack's guide to Sydney, Overpoweredfinger, Easter eggs, the internet disappoints and the Doc self edits, poorly. 

This week's new albums were from KT Tunstall and Koi Child, with the Doc nominating Possibly The First Punk Rock Album Ever Released And For Quite Some Decades Most Certainly The Loudest, Iggy and the Stooges' Raw Power as this week's classic. Next week's albums are Spend The Night With Cheena from the aforementioned Cheena, Savage Kings by Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, and 90's Brisvegas classic Double Allergic from Powderfinger. All of the above are on our BALLS After Dark Playlist, with our 2016 faves representing on the Mixtape. Your BALLS After Dark Drinking Game trigger words this week are interesting, aesthetic and misogynist. Please gamble with your liver responsibly.

In which Beeso and the Doc talk flogs and flags, how the LA Rams single-handedly ruined the first week of the NFL, not such a happy team at Hawthorn, Wayne Bennett's wrong kind of statement game, the Washington Generals of rugby league, why Olympic stadiums are bad for everything that's not the Olympics, pitch size variability, two point conversions and coaching cojones, RIP international rugby, hands away black seven, Visit Townsville, Nips moves south, Hodge can't dodge, Buddy can't sledge, Boonie cosplays as the Predator, whither Bangladesh, tears for two-tiers, big six hegemony, In Bruges, whiffs of dodgy, Rossi did a bad bad thing, the world's longest cold open, buying shirts and white men who can't jump.

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss telling it like it is and/or was, why people have shit taste, the secret life of TV show theme songs, movie director mixtapes, sample clearance diving, remixes vs homages vs tributes vs ripoffs, kids TV Easter eggs, voices that don't fit their faces, random interludes, awkward vocals, long shortlists vs short longlists, production values, timing errors, The 1972, uncan my heat, making more of things that should be made more of, self-contradicting takes, complete gibberish, lazy sampling, Bristol via Sydney, We Are Professional Grade, before Berlin, the evolution of art forms, the inverse proportionality of Having Good New Ideas to Being Able To Afford Decent Producers, notorious hard cases and famous last words.

This week's new albums were by Dutchies DeWolff and Brooklyn NY's Screaming Females. Beeso's classic was courtesy Wicked Beat Sound System, circa 2000. Next week: Iggy Pop (no relation to Azalea), KT Tunstall (no relation to Arthur) and Koi Child (no relation to carp.) Usual blah blah blah about everything being on the Playlist and the year's best-to-date being on the Mixtape.

Yep, it's finals footy time again. In which Beeso and Dr Yobbo discuss the Swans' away trip, falling off the Greenwagon, new money vs old money, AFL-NBA comps, footy players who keep writing on themselves, the trials and tribulations of Jesus, video ref force majeure, Wacky Waving Inflatable QB Man, get ahead wear a helmet, the Ex-FL, the fall of Chip Kelly, the rise of crap quarterbacks, the kids aren't alright, Daddy Dum Dum, broken records and #good #content. Buy shirts. 

In which Beeso and the Doc discuss This Is Hardcore, where AGBs fit on Moh's hardness scale, daddy issues, Spotify downvoting, Genuine Drapht, Beeso's mate, hip-pop, Skithouse, remembering stuff, being from 1967, sound systems, second winds, long shortlists, (Show)Notes To Self, upstairs at Ric's, Intestinal Fortitude Valley, Jersey Day, why cab ranks are appropriately named, Long Walk To Hangover Freedom, the end of the podcast, and what were we talking about again. Reviewed this week: Amity Affliction, Drapht, and Spiderbait's Grand Slam. Next week we're hearing from DeWolff, Screaming Females and Wicked Beat Sound System c. 2000 - all on the BALLS After Dark Spotify playlist. If decent, they may turn up on the After Dark Mixtape. If not, we'll just bleat about it on the podcast. As per.