tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: KAT to NYK, business decisions, introducing violence to the wins pool, who benefits from swallowed whistles, Butler gives up the bit, the white Ben Simmons, the oldest man in Oklahoma City, Big Ballers back, inventing new ways to lose, that notoriously stodgy KD Warriors team, Crossfit Corner, rogues gallery, being made to play nice, is anyone one Brandon Ingram away from contention, th...

This week in sport: edit shed cold opens, duelling piano men, Danny Glover areas, a successfully executed jinx, policy updates, syphilis vs chlamydia finals, weaponising HIAs, pure Manly, ‘there’s not really much going on in the NBA’/‘the Knicks need a centre’ and other talking points invalidated within 60 minutes of this recording, Kawhi’s phased brokenedness, Lowe loses his Post, Danny Ric loses...

This week in music: new albums from Ginger Root , the Jesus Lizard and Massive Hassle . Also: whisky tasting, lines of quirky, blood sugar sex muzak, the carbon cost of emails that meetings could have been, mental basket cases, still being obsessed with rock jernalism, playing to the crowd, do the voice, Doc reads bios and pretends they’re his review, FODMAP compliance, beach music, affection for...

This week in sport: traditional markers of the NBA off-season, roasting each and every one of the City Edition jerseys in alphabetical order, NBA media silly season, it’s the final Wojbomb (doo-doo-doo-doo), newsbreaking is for the young, nobody knows anything: NFL edition, Beeso attempts FPL, Tottenham attempts to score, Doc’s imperfect generational talent metric, padding Beeso’s CV, again with t...

This week in music: new albums from Charly Bliss , Los Bitchos and Full Flower Moon Band . Also: the mould is my enemy, uncut chipmunk, diabetes, where we’re going we don’t need lyrics, I agree with me, melancholy mazzing, the picture matches the label, Eaton Roots and leaves, live geography, PE in partial effect, Twin Towns vibes, basically in Nottingham, urban decline, aggressive elevator soul,...

This week in sport: karma meteorologists, actionable twitter posts, station idents, ninja turtle burner accounts, Taika strays, Australian cricket media’s kryptonite, bring back 1994, the Will Pucovski of the NFL, sunshine shenanigans, completely blanking on Mike McDaniel, the Niners’ worst of both worlds, run it until it stops working, ability vs dependablity, people don’t like or care about the...

This week in music: new albums from North Coast megafauna And So I Watch You From Afar , the Buoys (who are girls) and Troy Kingi 's just deserts. Also: Sports Takes As A Service, outsider trading, it’s still 1996 somewhere, Schroedinger’s podcast, making stuff on the computer, shed tinkerers, how do you do fellow kids , one hour specials, it’s also still 1998 somewhere, soundtracks again, big rou...

No sports pod this week due to the lack of NBA content to pod about, so here’s a mini-ep on the lack of NBA content to pod about. Also: Chiefs-Ravens, conference comps, spare Kelces, Pablo Torre and Nate Tice explain NFL play calling , the tush push, the NRL Spoon Bowl and bets best not bet lest you regret. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny Studio RSS feeds: Just sports | Just m...

This week in music: new albums from Soft Play , King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and Painted Shield . Also: explaining soundtracks to your kids, orchestral bang ’n’ clang, print is back baby, 65 not out, how many things can you make out of of these other things, competing theories, rising above it because you’re a professional, old mate three names, never happier to be shouted at, don’t read t...

This week in sport (?): the two reasons to buy a professional sports franchise, Jeffrey Bezos , Steph gets bored on Insta, no need for a blue tick, losing dead weight, what the hell are Chelsea doing, accidental Brexit, Beeso is basically Ballmer, blue windscreens of death, actual consumer motoring advice, life is a highway and experiential GPS. Find us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | Omny...

This week in music: new albums from Jack White , Grinspoon and Empire of the Sun . Also: quitting Spotify, minor leagues, bashin’ riffs, nitpicking, Dead Weather origins, concepts of various descriptions, Patton’s Disease, local legends, unlikely elder statesmen, tradie vibes, corporate gigs, Powderballads, dead cats, this is where I take my leave, 40 years too late or three months too early, GenX...

This week: culture war draft-dodging, academic grifts, apply gradient and send invoice, getting full value from the plane ticket, Montmartre < Kapelmuur, duathlon ring-ins, casuals and boomers, obscure constitutional precedents, the San Angeles Wakers, the Crossfit deep-dive you didn’t know you needed to hear, do it Toomey, when to cancel your scheduled posts, watching a guy ride very slowly do...

This week (month?) in music: new albums from GUM/Ambrose Kenny-Smith , Highly Suspect and Gangstagrass . Also: long-haul airport chilli roulette, the lack of international standards for chip packet colours, visiting Pornland, Ric Flair woo, butt rock, sphagnumcore , the fine line between stupid and clever, old mate three names, unbroken brains, travel music, steal this album, early 2000s confidenc...

This week: Beeso’s back from the touch world cup and has TAKES on the Olympics, the NBA and the paucity of single malts in mid-priced Midlands travel hotels. Also: sabotaging your own tape, fit people, the big two killed my tourney, local competition, are we having fun yet, you can’t win anything with kids, European vacations, Australia sucks, players-only meetings, three-time Olympian podcasters,...

This week in music: new albums from Aaron Frazer , Pond and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats . Also: Grand Unifying Theory II: Electric Boogaloo, insufficiently racist, unnecessary remakes, the death of genre, reintroductions, more brass than class, Now This Is Going To Be Fun dot jpg, false advertising, soft-launching your libertarian anti-vax side project, Nottingrime, non-league collab...

This week: England’s dreaming, cultural assimilation, Queensland maths, mid-season variance, on the bus from Innisfail, excessive Kendrick, the end of the Dubs dynasty, the new Cash Considerations, which one is the Spare Wiggins, cheap Nuggets, free agenzzzzy, eastbound and down under, Luka Doncooked, chemistry kits, this week’s instalment of OKC Future Chat, Kerr helps the aged, GOAT solidarity,...

This week in music: new albums from Joywave , Fu Manchu and The Tibbs . Also: hockey music, in defence of Coldplay??, fulfilling your contractual obligations, hair grunge, shifting air, Kingi of the desert, swing revival survivors, TOCB, too much work, the fine line between enjoyable and annoying, deluxe edition origin stories, bluegrass Turbonegro and Cletus hiphop. Next week: Aaron Frazer | Pond...

This week in sport: Saudi vs Everton, dictionary definitions, aspirational targets, Kvaradona’s horrible annus, Ronaldo’s best position, this Italy chat aged well, bring back Nike tournament ads , lost in Paris, the Swiss spine, continuing until morale improves, Beeso surprisingly brings it back to his own coaching, get out of the way, Covid struggleball, who isn’t here that should be, Rip Hamilto...

This week in music: new albums from Alfie Templeman , Earth Tongue and Hockey Dad . Also: fame chasers, defining indie, pro-vaccine takes, oooo spoooky, taxation multiplication, rat sweat, colour charts, we’ve just run out of indie cliches, nothing ventured or gained, ice ice ice, Swingers vs Singles, ripping off the ripoff , dot dot dot, the Ugly Duckling school of song titling, out of context mu...

This week: whatareya, Spain bombing from three, playing yourself into or out of favouritism, crossing the streams, international footballers are good at international football (not you England), Cristiano Ronaldo: ultimate team player, Hollywood saves, being blogged at, convoluted second-round maths, conditional Belgian bandwagons, An Ukraine, adopting a team, underdogs vs underperformers, EPL tax...

This week: New albums from Emma Donovan , Whores and Bad Nerves . Also: Paul Blart Touch Coach, dream collabs, lots of bits, all stand, making Gore happy, credits roll, obscure NBA jokes, early 90s without context, teaching your children well, Sunset Strip hair farmers, Gen X authenticity wars, zero nutritional value, keep off the Supergrass, two Beetles, parental pride, bona fide polymaths and gi...

This week in sport: crushing tape, salute to Tintin, 2016 redux, Dutts doing deals, offending and pleasing in equal measure, ready for prime time, one red one white, what you heard , home before the postcards, maps to the stars, a deeper dive on Austrian football philosophy and tactics than anyone would have reasonably expected, two guys and a bunch of dudes, Name That City Midfielder, welcoming o...

This week: New albums from Cage The Elephant , Big Special and Arab Strap . Also: call and response training, evolutionary musicology, a missed opportunity for a Glenn McGrath joke, ranting about misery, misery about ranting, soft acts to follow, Beeso falls for the old deluxe edition banana in the tailpipe, make fun noises, no relation and no leg to stand on. Next week: Bad Nerves | Emma Donovan...

This week: Luka’s hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer, unexpected broomery, everyone’s favourite game show: Tired Or Stupid?, 14 feet of disappointment, Minnesota headwinds, topical satire, contractually obligated Thunder Future Chat, la génération dorée, get fit with Boris , why Joe Mazzulla is bad at merging, space-filling narratives, keeping your dumb thoughts to yourself is a sign of pers...

This week: Beeso’s live report from Jungle, plus new albums from Nia Archives , The Zutons and Slash . Also: not bhed good soize, architect visions, setlist analytics, rusted-on karaoke, big beat is back, keep it moving, rockstar cosplay, it’s twenty louder, conditioned by poor choices, Kool-Aid entries, finding religion, more Seventies than the Seventies, the Nile dries up, when all the takes hav...