tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: what it says on the tin. We're counting down our top five albums of 2024. Also: colonial appendage swinging, bad grime and Dua Lipa, second chance draws, we heard what you said about us, process over results, midfield divebombs, gratuitous namedrops, Bobby Bragg, representative examples of the marque, finding your fastball,  Double J inflight magazines, not understanding what EDM i...

This week in sport: ratings beratings, how are the Cavs, fake winning streaks, knowing your ceiling, the East finally achieves respectability, KANGZ landing, rough trades, DNP-conflagration, the big three and the rest, getting got by half price League Pass, marginally-less-exploitoball and two-tier Tests. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny Studio RSS feeds: Just sports | Just mus...

This week: our annual Last Chance Qualifier for AOTY 2024, featuring Mashd N Kutcher , High Fade , Kim Deal , the Spyrals , White Denim and Lyrics Born . Also: Endorphin rushes, Clarke & Dawe 2024, the early 90s funk revival, bonus stages of grief, profiting off Gen X nostalgia, Red Hot Chatsy Peppers, no more from you, leaving with a vibe, hoping for a different album than this one, a shed in...

This week in sport: actually having NBA thoughts, collecting trophies like Pokemon, the MVP straw poll, the Thunder’s rough week, a minor Traensformation, multi-layer revenge games, can Dennis Schroeeuueeuder stop the Dubs putting up duds, Jimmy Butler’s Mythbusters vibe, Shut Up And Front Office, NBA Cup improvements, NBA All Star unimprovements, the most unlikely mistaken identity in...

This week: new albums from Fat Freddy’s Drop , Ramkot and Stress Eater (CZARFACE x Kool Keith). Also: new Ice Cube x Brandy collab, double not negatives, representative examples of the marque, blank canvases, beach roadtrips, #DocMisReadsBios, desert rock Pokemon, if in doubt play it louder through better speakers, the Minister for Czarface, the poet laureate of the podcast, more Kendrick sl...

This week in sport: Jimmy is rustling Miami’s jimmies, the end of superstar mobility, quadrupling down, players aren’t bad but contracts can be, NBA Cup quarterfinals, peak Knuckles Connolly hours, Happy learned how to putt, don’t use Tottenham’s training staff, leaps v blips, LeBron is all of us, things Bill Belichick could be doing rather than coaching a mediocre college...

This week: new albums from Kendrick Lamar , Pa Salieu and Ocean Grove .  Also: west coast tourism, you and me problems, space-filling models, 1980s muscle car history, foreign exchange, fake freestyles, statements endorsed by 50% of the podcast, the worst thing about 2001, Mariah Carey waterboarding, call and response, Old Soul Christmas , justice for Last Christmas, Brazilian Funkmas , a tim...

This week in sport: multiple Australia-India walkovers, Worldwide Pant, getting a sendoff from a Grease 2 villain, pick your favourite Jokic on-off stat, MVP conversation small talk, Ja performatively gives up dunking, the Great Barrier Thief, mini-slumps, freelancing against coaching advice, knowing the rules in order to break them, would Brett Kimmorley have made a good Shanahan system QB, sunk...

This week: new albums from Michael Kiwanuka , Thunderpussy and Vypers . Also: knocking your audience loose, music to topple castles by, outgunned but not outnumbered, Mark Ronseal, orbital sander albums, not a producer’s extruder, polish club, incomplete assignments, unreleased comeback albums, unspoiled by success, don’t put in the paper that I got mad, stealing Killer Mike’s car and Famalam’s Dr...

This week in sport: the worst 11-1 team in NFL history, the multiEberflusverse, the three kinds of Cavs losses, the Ant Edwards School of Motivational Speaking, teachable moments, Beeso refuses to be Knicks-positive, America cannot geography, the Rockets’ next move, Boxing Day at the Smoothie King, the last club sandwich, Detective Chief Inspector Joel Embiid, ban this podcast, merchandise even mo...

This week: new albums from A. Swayze & the Ghosts , Warmduscher and Faderdaze . Also: safe assumptions, Covid bumps, beat poetry, misleading introductions, nutritional information, introduce yourself (right on!) , Gladstone starter kits, random music recs, this podcast was inevitable, soft furnishings, sad indie manic pixie dream girls, sabotaging engagement farming, one-shot live versions , t...

This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout,  shot deserts , blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it’s 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-sports, styles make fights, create-a-player Grizzlies, Sixers Process Karma is undefeated, Beeso is...

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again) , Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf . Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied to by the internet, Morningside for life, words matter, unproductive foraging, more bold evolutions...

This week in sport: live sausagemaking , started at the bottom now we here, Thursday scaries, unintended consequences, duelling stats, Traede Young, the Cavs already have the 1 seed, Wemby ruins narratives, Rudy reinforces them, Dub mixes,  washed references , strength of schedule, escaping to BlueSky, arguing with yourself, non-starter starter packs, Le Sulk, Mbappe having a mbad time and the dif...

This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre , Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer . Also: reanimating your dead time, I can’t believe they’ve taken Warren’s wealth , Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins, prog stoner nonsense, decoding the Dub project, getting the concept backwards, turkeys for Christ...

This week: we’re a cricket podcast. Don’t let anyone tell you different. #MeaninglessBilaterals #Wibble Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny Studio RSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | Everything Contact: Twitter | Facebook | Email See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers , Confidence Man and The Offspring . Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what’s ‘shameless fan service’ in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very obvious joke, the estate of Chrissy Amphlett is preparing legal papers, FIGJAM, where’s the drop, w...

This week in sport: trying to make sense of a week of NBA games that told us not a lot more than a day did. Also: school holiday childcare, three-heavy basketball sucks, an entire team going 50-40-90, statue or stat someone else?, big outliers, big worries, a Dyson that doesn’t suck, capture the Flagg, the Tobias Harris revenge tour, the Josh Giddey Experience, Wilkinson Beard, new coach bumps, ru...

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine , and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kneecapped, dear Jons, rejected Bob Vylan covers and Fidler on the hoof. Next week: Amyl and the Sniff...

This week in sport: our traditional massive overreactions to one game of NBA basketball episode , in which we… yeah you can probably figure it out eh. Also: insulting Scotland, serial killers, non-showering teenagers, unserious organisations, false advertising, altitude sickness, Kawhi are you not playing, Bermuda triangles of suck, robust characters, high voltage rock and roll, Ace Frehley, the f...

This week: new albums from TISM , RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit . Also: rolling in dog dirt, pure uncut fan service, forced interstitials, ultramarathon training, exactly what was expected, unsafe working at height, the best of what’s left of, biscuit meditations, structural thought, the Dan Auerbach Cinematic Universe, this won’t help, this won’t make the mix and Doc Fails To Read Bios.    Next w...

This week in sport: Adam, Beeso and Doc are in for our annual snake draft of the NBA teams we think will win the most games this year, as a way of previewing the upcoming NBA season (and to land one of us some free booze some time next year).  Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny Studio RSS feeds: Just sports | Just music | Everything Contact: Twitter | Facebook | Email See omnystu...

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular, the pointy end. Background reading: Doc and Beeso’s original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out. Next week: new albums from TISM , RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit . Spotify playlists: Current albums |...

This week: our 400th episode GOAT Albums Top 50 Spectacular , over two instalments. Background reading: Doc and Beeso’s original top 50 favourite albums lists from 14 years ago. How has the pod changed our music tastes? Who wins the ultimate deathmatch of nostalgia and recency bias? Listen and find out. Later this week: tb400 part two. No sports this week, NBA wins pool draft next week. Spotify pl...

This week in music: new albums from FIDLAR , Hello Mary and Carver Commodore . Also: talking yourselves into doing a top fifty GOAT albums list for your 400th, prematurely declaring the death of the album, renting vs buying, Substack squats , there’s never money in this banana stand, a thousand handstands , Almost Free (of a unifying genre) , a bad week at the well, disavowing Past Songwriter You,...