tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom Morello Also: excitable dunkers, Richie Benaud colour charts, aggressively boring, 2026 Beeso [handshake emoji] 1997 Roy Keane, making handgrenades somehow worse, the only boring road trip in New Zealand, ‘The Beach’ of albums, lefty boomer doomscrolling, action hero jousting dude, using your voice in public, bring back Dopamine Week, get yo...

This week’s new albums: Action Bronson | C.O.F.F.I.N | Chase & Status Also: get in the sea bin, keep out of reach of children, like and subscribe, beaten by cosplayers, geographical confusion, both kinds of loud, vocal production, sad bloke on a run of outs areas, Giants of Science timetravel, Postman Pat pyrotechnics, what the world needs now, it’s the children who are wrong, no longer chasin...

It’s EP Week! A tapas platter of new music from Night Swimming , Karen Dió , 16 Underground , The Gnomes , Sherif Boi & Tomahawk , Sonic Reducer , Public Figures , MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi , 7Horse and horse (no relation) Also: live Bledisloe updates, Bath/Bath, mansplaining Bandsplain, context and intent, dolphin cruises, trust your first instinct, straight pimpin’, fresh finds, fantasy boo...

This week’s new music:  Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A Holiday Also: the two true paths of covers, recycled grease, Karens and Sharons, column compendiums, gas-powered internet, dreich in full effech, misled by first impressions, missing the deadline, the next good Karen, it’s ten louder, C’s get degrees, being bad at time maths, the sandpapergate reunion special, Zaltzman v Davey Dum Dum...

This week’s new music:  Mike D | Headie One | Airbourne Also: 2026 exceptionallism, brutalist flats, equilibrium opprobrium, saving graces, why are you doing this to people who care about you, song title nominative determinism, MCAI, context-specific albums, doing 7 AFL’s job for them, beer isn’t a food group, raised on Hasselhoff and Scorpions, genre of origin stickers, Jason Status, ornithology,...

This week’s new music:  CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor Honeymoon Also: Blow up your video, schmedium fits, improvement items, acts of rebellion, open with your best stuff, pushing against the sugar, casuals and randoms, dropping entire loaves of bread, geometric means, on the nose , Air Ben Stillers , podcast samples, VENOM VENOM VENOM VENOM, icy cold cans of Coke, it’s...

This week’s new music:  Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at AB Also: Beeso sings country classics, Glengarry Glenn Ridge , point/counterpoint, dinosaur extinction, ADHD medication, Kram-Janet hybrids, professors of neurobiology, the guy who curates Doc's Release Radar , slow jams, rogue geologists, seal of approval, day jobs, Wu-Tang name generators, doing the act...

This week’s new albums:  Getdown Services | Stepmother | Dead Meadow Also: Coup de tarts, rescue dog metaphors, dubstep elevator music, wet sounds, narrative side quests, the Wil Anderson Appreciation Hour, NCIS all the things, panel shows, Birdman karaoke, a parody of a pastiche of a joke, not that sort of filth, we’re gonna need a bigger shirt, Edge cases, preeminent rock powerhouses, where is V...

This week’s new albums:  Jungle | Swapmeet | GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite Also: Beeso’ll Fix It, the elephant in the room, Reloaded Honey, Cleetus McFarland, set menus, Indie Temple fantasy bookings, oh-oh-oh-OHH-O’Broin, vice advice, don’t eat the blue snow, regretful binnings, self-own coverage, dark underbellies, long unravellings, extremely loud wrong proclamations, NBA day trading, dead pre...

This week’s new albums:  Inspectah Deck | Maara | Twisted Teens Also: Mystery listeners, so very tired, albums you’d rather be making, forgettable new-age Euro dance of the 90s, ring culture, broken headphones, low-rent venues, tip-shop Springsteen, third wheels, belated crackdowns, reaching for the comfort blanket, mumbling Brits over a driving bassline, crunchy or smooth surrealism, unexpected P...

This week’s new albums:  High Fade | Mary in the junkyard | Radkey Also: Crowbarred stings, single-sided podcasting, the opposite of jazz, the opposite of emo, one of every duo is having a worse time than the other, Weird Al without jokes, space-filling cheese, Tom Hardy’s holiday job, Wu as a lifestyle, swears North Americans are bad at, Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Album, society’s to blame, on the...

This week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act   Also: Premature preamble, fast love, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePromoBumf, turtle power, Greek mythology, thematic confluence, tuatara albums, Lars slander, bad workout music, badly-animated Marshall stacks, Tom Waits for no man, having a Barrie , the easiest job in early ‘00s Australian television, headlining LSW Fest, we hope you like our n...

This week’s new albums: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House   Also: Bog people, the project slash the excuse, unrelenting self-promotion, girl parts, legacy defined, planning permission, 80s precision, neurospicy rhythm method, tooting and tinkling, prejudgement night, Wolfgang & McClurg, fridge temperatures of Europe, a junglist on a jungle list, English spumante, TISM collab nightmares...

This week’s new albums: Alewya | Julez and the Rollerz | Crocodiles Also: You don’t need to get ready if you stay ready, the Molly Meldrum of this podcast, Arabian twists, #ContentOverAll, rich and stupid, disappearing bios, second hand Cars, Weezer (complimentary) vs Weezer  (derogatory), the low ceiling of retro genre pieces, cross-town rivalries, The Long-Dead Weather, Carl Cox car cave , Doc R...

This week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Mulga Bore Hard Rock | Dead Pioneers   Also: Let it go, keeping score, Death Stranding 3 England 0, why do/are people like this, ancient culture, lived experience, multi-directional palate cleansers, uneven flow, old mate Sleafords, murder logs, the Jesus and the Mary and the Chain, guest recommendations, listen harder, multi-hyphenate artists, kia kaha S...

This week’s new albums: The Heavy Eyes | Jon Spencer | The Scratch Also: Large medium effects, delayed drops, controlled explosions, bringing that high heat late in the game, let’s play two, hair and thrash, delusions of credibility, you got any more of that Bob Vylan, brown sets and brown suits, good job by us, oppressed minorities, live reacting to WC games, picking fun RO32 games, and a surpris...

This week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch' Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit Shore Also: Half melted heroes, thinking vs pounding, the Bob Marley Effect, still in the league, the RATM-Primus nexus , retiring from public life, horny on main, you can’t make it up, fans of the weirdness, podcast mixtapes, you gotta keep ‘em...

This week’s new albums: SLIFT | Modern Woman | Ben Kidson Also: The most important of the least important things, Highlander soundtrack fantasy booking episode 27, nobody wants that, stop hammertime, performative tantrum throwing, welcome to Gympie, jokeless musical comedy, leftover legacy slop, corporate sucks rock, the longest band and/or album title in the history of this music podcast, Doc rea...

This week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder   Also: Vibe restorers, three-act festivals, too big for small rooms, screen assists, whither hammock time, underproduction values, late night brown spirts albums, getting dragged to Woodford, Legacy Slop Watch, ghosts of girlfriends past, bio-engineering, reclaiming our status as Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast,...

This week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5 Also: Failed HIAs, making a real difference, underground club nights, Substack music recs, false advertising, stale airport sandwiches, live listener counts, Celebrity Head updates, lorem ipsum lyrics, self-deleting albums, music and food, Kingsmill’s algorithm, Slim Pickens, how is Chris Brown still in the league, post-climat...

This week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery Bag Also: confirmation bias in action, warm blankets, pen pal collabs, all the gear and no ideas, bucket hat dads, shooting down trial balloons, garbage bags, change-ups, who was the subject of Powderfinger’s ‘Celebrity Head’, the tripping balls of record labels, bad tattoo ideas, Arsenal won but at wh...

This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | Melanie Baker | ISTA Also: Headbanging, getting dog’s abuse in book dedications, dingy downstairs sessions, that one tool that does that one job, that’s fairly interesting , possibly the longest unbroken monologue Beeso has ever delivered on the podcast, point/counterpoint, get a diagnosis, 30 year mysteries solved, moving the sliders, different conclusions...

This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death Cult Also: Out of touch royalty, when catching up with high school mates goes wrong, Bad Boy Bubby vs Let’s Get Skase, your own private Wild Colonial, love something like Labour governments love criminalising protest, shouts to Genius.com, unexpected Dutchmen, Dave Callan joins Viagra Boys, hurting your own brand, celebrating valiant failure,...

This week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | Abronia Also: earning a crust, Liam Ro-see-ya, last week Raye-visited, pre-emptive disappointment, made for TikTok, diluted chemicals, podcasting therapy, weird TV soundtracks, how did you get here, this year’s stalking-beetle, anti-buzz cynicism, world music defined, the Gaelic calendar, secretly Canadian, profiting from complacency, Nugs-W...

This week’s new albums: Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder | RAYE .  Also: compromised assets, novelty Olympic single B-sides of the early '90s, the Rogers Continuum, winery tour nostalgia, Rumble vs Vulcanella, half a room of reverb, the rewards of low expectations, my skin is crawling, Find My Spouse, main character energy, on the hour every hour, musical theatre superstructure, reading the pho...