This week’s new albums: Karnivool | Sahara Hotnights | The Molotovs

Also: Analogue brains, a bit of snippety-snip, all pre-apologies, a rush to judgement, Grafton TAFE copping strays again, getting kicked out of the club, can I push it, grown up teens,  Double J winery tours, our bass player didn’t write this, no adult supervision, stacks of acts, iso swearing, critic narratives, Silk Sonic, Dodge Demon Hunters, dangerous floaters, there’s your problem, the Scandi seal of approval, bring back the Deccan Chargers, depending on Pakistan, Constable Care, close the borders, distance derbies, OKC shouldn’t exist, Michael Bay Round, 40 before 20, who owns who, the trials of Zion, ‘it doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter’ is not a business plan and ‘Shoresy’ is not a life guide.

1:56  Karnivool

8:48  Sahara Hotnights

12:50  The Molotovs

21:25  Next week’s albums

31:15  After Dark - T20WC, NRL in Vegas, NBA

Next week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The Stripp

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This week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails 

Also: Water is insidious, outsourcing your admin, work with what you have, not ready for prime time, bad with intent, Ed Cowan centuries, never go back, momentum killers, Pink Floyd (derogatory), female chicks, big stacks, horse_ebooks, fully sick, two sets and an encore, pre-empting the After Dark, calling for the screens, immediately contravening your own anti-legacy-act policy, Scandinavian anti-aging, more horse_ebooks, nobody asked for this, the old blues muscle, spinny wings, post-match spy interviews,  when the false flag drops, good vs interesting, over-indexing the future of the NBA on half an all-star game, coaches are losers, nothing to play for, inventing new snow stuff, muting America, peer review and Def Leppard for Beeso. 

2:27  Keli Holiday

7:54  Demob Happy

15:09  Dream Nails

19:00  Next week’s albums

31:15  After Dark - F1, NBA, cricket, music again

Next week’s new albums: Karnivool | The Molotovs | Sahara Hotnights

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This week’s new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent Baker

Also: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in audio form, brain downloads, inside you there are two EPs, bands you missed, shouts to Oslo, diatribing about the state of the world, Surf Coast roadies, Giants of Science, left tenants, horse under water, slow burners, Newgurgitator, bogan masking, explaining Australian music to Australians, #BeesoReadsPressReleases, talking to kids, explaining the world, the F1 movie, every sports movie, incentive structures, failure is always an option, it’s always the KANGZ, expansion fees, making sure you don’t have to go to the US, the dangers of downhill, what it sounds like when you record before Zimbabwe beats Australia, a festival of joke sports, the same dudes, getting deported to Mudgee, massive backhanders, accidentally pre-empting Lando, electric horses, range anxiety and club vs state. 

2:14  Playboy Manbaby

6:54  Gluecifer

10:48  Sargent Baker

15:30   Next week’s albums

27:01  After Dark - F1, NBA, T20WC, FIFA, F1 again, AFL origin

Next week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails 

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This week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger

Also: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus stolen valour, he was not actually sorry and was not trying to delete it, Mother Focaccia, old enough to know better, holding two contradictory viewpoints in your head at once, none of this is making the shownotes, poster font size tiering, the shortcomings of the Victorian state education system, beats from the back shelf, I can’t read, albums Beeso missed, Portishead members Beeso missed, second drafts, #stillintheleague, open heart physio, plans for bans, half-strength decaf, hardline fanatics, what mountain biking is all about, self-adhesive stamps, live at McGazza Fest, expanding loopholes, all about that wheelbase and unpaid promo for Bandcamp Friday. 

2:16  Poppy

5:03  Black Two Piece Band Name

9:55  Goldfinger Presents The ’99 Vans Warped Tour All Stars

16:15  Next week’s albums

24:08  After Dark - Gents, Jeffs, NBA trades, MTB, F1

Next week’s new albums: Sargent Baker | Gluecifer | Playboy Manbaby

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This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams.

Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it always like this, Leonard Cohen has notes, Care Bear picnics, many of years, inherent ridiculousness, halftime smoko, fat dancers, elaborate trolls,  sad world mirrors, in a time of chimpanzees he was a monkey, multiple Joey Fatones, the Meatloaf Position, fantasy job swaps, fifteen on Metacritic, setlist apartheid, the untied state of America, trading Giannis, suddenly Palpatine again??, out with mono, long live 15 minute recaps, suddenly Man U again???, vibes > schemes, building your whole diet out of gateway drug, dead rubber specialists, badly photocopied SVG, beyond the Super Smash, Connor Coopelly, early 2000s crowd sledging and like and subscribe.

1:39  Megadeth

14:40  Robert Williams

25:41 Next week’s albums

28:36  After Dark - NBA, NFL, EPL, cricket

Next week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | Goldfinger

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Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays. 

Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what was that shot, Timberland flow, who is Frank Hoover, diversify your bonds, confirming your priors, the setlist, tripping balls talks to kids, your Hottest 100 halftime report, a two piece and a biscuit, pre-reviews, quick trolls, make sure they’re gone, the Olivia Dean will continue until morale improves, looking at the man in the mirror, Olympic Smudge, the Anti-Beeso, on the Busses, we were basically Defector, sponsorship gone wrong, unintended consequences, learning to win, Le Mans starts, GM vs Ford vs Ferrari, Audi doody, a potted history of Red Bull sports investments, and Detroit knows least.

2:19  Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore

4:54  Nas & DJ Premier

8:59  DZ Deathrays

14:00  New album picks for two weeks’ time with Beeso

21:09  New album picks for next week with Adam

24:49  After Dark - T20, NBA, cycling, F1 vs sportscars

Next week’s new albums: Megadeth | Robbie Williams. Tell me it’s an Adam episode without telling me it’s etc etc

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This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY season before picking our first new albums for 2026.

Also: streaming books, warped expectations, recurring characters, on the way to losing your way, steamed on headphones, the last compact disc, rubbery datekeeping, going off script, the singer songwriter blues, psychoanalysis by podcast, remembering to put things in the shownotes, shot clock violations, wolf bands < witch bands, Muse drivebys, riders on the storm, post-grunge supergroups, accidental discoveries, altered brain chemistry, not ready for a broken funkin’ arm, nuclear blasts, bridge albums, twiddles and schtick, Preston property values, #yourwelcome, Night Lords prequels, legacy fails, other people’s AOTYs, holding back the years, market correction, pre-release radar, classic Beeso picks, are the burgers really better at Hungry Jacks, everyone else is wrong, don’t write in to point out the Sydney Metro isn’t a loop we don’t care,  fixing each other’s problems and getting clapped off.

4:18  Preamble

10:26  The top ten

46:46  Lightning round

57:24  Swings and misses

65:43  Everyone else’s 2025 AOTYs

71:55  Next week’s picks  

Next week: back to reality (and to reasonable-length podcasts?) with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays.

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This week: for music ep 450, we revisit the music of 1996. 

In a Very Special Episode to mark 450 music episodes (Big Round Number!) and kick off season 2026, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft, snipe and gripe their way through a snake draft of the biggest and best albums of 1996, and discover that the Venn diagrams of ‘biggest’ and ‘best’ might not overlap as much as you’d think.

WARNING. NOSTALGIA IS AN ADDICTIVE DRUG. Symptoms of nostalgia fixation can include solely listening to music from your teens and twenties, claiming to not know the names of any top 40 acts or complaining endlessly about modern Triple J. If you or someone close to you is addicted to nostalgia, help is available. Call 1-800-TRIPBALL and a Doctor will prescribe you some weird loud nonsense off his Release Radar with a couple hundred Spotify listeners.

7:58  Draft order pop quiz, hotshot

11:49  A somewhat consensus first pick

18:19  A challenging number two

23:13  #3 - a difficult second album vindicated

28:53  #4 - a career 180 on the turn

32:45  #5 - anyhow* here’s Wonderwall 

38:59  #6 - alternative universe sequels 

44:30  #7 - Toowong Sanity vs HMV Pitt St

47:29  #8 - ONE OF US

53:12  Intermission - Adam’s favourite albums of 2025, 2024 and 2026

57:18  Bad ad reads and worse medical advice

58:40  #9 - unpredictable predictabilities

62:59  #10 - undiscovered discoveries  

66:45  #11 - there’s always a punisher

72:36  #12 - missed by a continent and many consonants

75:37  #13 - nostalgia for live acts, $2.50 beers and trying too much

83:34  #14 - it’s called ash, or æsc in the original Old English Latin

90:28  #15 - you can’t be it if you can’t see it

94:08  Also mentioned in dispatches 

Next week: enough wallowing in 90s nostalgia, we’re quantum-leaping into the future, straight to… 2015-16. It was good for Leicester and LeBron, if noone else. We’ll be drafting our favourite albums of the first year-and-a-fair-bit of the pod, but will all the albums actually be from the pod?

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This week: it’s Album Of The Year time. Doc and Beeso count down each of our five favourite albums of 2025, and talk near-misses, disappointments and trends from the year just gone. Also: Dead week revisited, yes-no-maybe, accepting your flaws, best releases vs best albums, immediately failed predictions, albums you neither enjoy nor recommend, NYC real estate, early mover advantage, Mrs Beeso Reads Bios, the Venn diagram of Mike Skinner, Amy Taylor and Barry the Baptist, wholesome punk, fuzzy everything, the fine line between stupid and clever, Chubs and Crockett, Tate modern, judicious skipping, hipster cred, bringing back 2015 pod energy, Will Pharrell, mind the gap, a dangerous day to forget your 2024 #1, near-misses and disappointments, it’s Martin/Molloy’s fault, whither Australia, more 2024 #1 erasure, live at KEXP, sniper risks, remembering some albums, imperfect censuses, the new Kingsmills, consensus AOTYs, other people’s AOTYs, more teaches from Peaches, Swift backlash and Woodford vs reality.

12:11  Our number fives

16:19  Beeso’s #4

21:40  Doc’s #4

25:17  Beeso’s #3

33:11  Doc’s #3

39:22  Beeso’s #2

46:27  Doc’s #2

55:57  Beeso’s #1

61:51  Doc’s #1

66:17  Honorable (or otherwise) mentions

80:35  1996 albums redraft preview

90:45  2026 albums we’re looking forward to

94:09  After Dark (production, Woodford, 1996, trolling)

Next week: for tripping balls/BALLS After Dark (i.e. the music show) episode 450, it’s our now-traditional 30-years-on best albums re-draft for the year 1996, guest-starring the Godfather of Grime, Adamhfoto. There will be sniping and there will be griping.

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This week: it’s Bring Out Your Dead week, our last chance to review new albums for 2025, featuring albums from Alien Weaponry | Alison Wonderland | Automatic | Bee Bee Sea | De La Soul | Erick Sermon of EPMD | Mini Skirt | Powder Chutes | ROMES | These New South Whales. No we’re not doing timestamps for all that, it was enough of a hassle splicing in Beeso’s island-internet-addled voicenotes. Merry Christmas ya filthy animals.

Next time: it’s our Album Of The Year top 5 countdown for 2025. Here's Doc's first-pass (aka thirty albums that might be worth your time)

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