tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week: the game we’d been waiting the entire NBA playoffs for, mid-00s A-League, sentient cotton buds, putting your body in positions it shouldn’t be, meaningless levers, choosing to not go all-in, props to the Mavs front office, unplayable lies, fearing the worst title team in recent history, stop listening to internet effwits, doing Draymond out of a job, outside the NBA, media rights and wr...

This week: new albums from English Teacher , Wine Lips and Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol . Also: tailoring banking to your needs, the laundry-related talk-singing UK band Doc couldn’t think of is Dry Cleaning, punishing theatre kids, indie Thursdays, joke metal alloys, pro Canada, rocking horse rarities, after-dinner gelato, getting headless, Chic freaks, treble-hat-Gibson triple threats, Led Ze...

This week, nearing the 3am-ugly-lights stage of the NBA playoffs second round: fast forwarding to the inevitable, being criminally French, views from the podcastariat, Doc complaining about someone else’s takes lacking nuance, Denver’s counterpunch worked until it didn’t, silence your notifications, Dortmund uber alles, good stories don’t make good contests, we can’t count, benching Giddey, Trae Y...

This week: new albums from Brittany Howard , Master Peace and Mdou Moctar . Also: government handouts, closed Zoos, Rev limiters, ranked Arenas, broken records, Music Hall passes, live performance headwinds, tiny desks , managing to both misspell and mislocate Seattle’s KEXP , the Black Keys playing your high school hall, not in those shoes mate, an inverse Bonnie Tyler, security risks, Sunday nig...

This week: an early-second-round vibe check from the NBA playoffs. Also: I’ll have what she’s having, one-seeds dropping one, Boston did the thing, the Dirkification of Jokic, Ant and the Antettes, 70s throwbacks, m isplaced faith in the ancients, engaged in the discourse, the Boogie Zone, your mileage may vary, Bread Corner, Thibs’ high-wire act, culturally appropriate NY teams, everyone built th...

This week: new albums from Justice , Marcus King and Regurgitator . Also: listener endorsements, Kiwi mild butter chicken, walking in Memphis, archived angst, Rick Rubin is still in the league, confusing a severe weather event with a LA glam metal band, off chops, perfect bops, Gurge side projects , where does Quan do his big shop, barely recalled reviews, Shakes Gilgeous Alabama, doubling down, i...

This week: the Leastern Conference, sim to end, the 1991/92 World Series Cup, turning blind, close ≠ good, camping with the Knicks, bits we lost control of, the quietest of quitting, not liking our allies, the decline and fall of a one-time BALLS Podcast Spirit Vegetable, trading rosters, architectural flaws, the one guaranteed way to lose in the new NBA, cap smoothing, trading for 2019 Kawhi, Thi...

This week: new albums from Khruangbin , BODEGA and West Thebarton . Also: Barry Football , travelogue incidentals, new-old stock, first-year arts discourse, Talking Heads, low-energy genres, no dunks, violent dreams, melancholy Cletus, 2018 was a Different time, reciprocal memberships, Adelaide connections, grunge-informed noise, stupid Zac Efron movies, what Tim and Guy did next, always up to som...

This week: screaming over the peak, game state simulations, DLo Schröder, considering your options, this guy sucks, stopping Zion, 7/8 decision time, bad impersonations of the 2016 Cavs, the Alonso-Slater plan, get back East, Balkan beareotypes, Sisyphus’ job satisfaction, so much for that Patreon pledge, has KD ever run a play, New Words With Beeso, latitude-dependent shooting, the worst kind of...

This week: new albums from Tyla , the Libertines and the Dandy Warhols . Also: dangerous sand-atoll-adjacency, Adam Nation rise up, chillin’ with the vylan, in protest of protest music, an off-brand off-chops Pete Davidson, eight years late, how to get a number one , glum half-paced rubbish, terrace anthems, blaming Metacritic, Casiotone demo modes, urban jungle, whither backannouncers, the habit...

This week, massive overreactions to one game of yada yada you know the bit by now: NBA playoffs edition! Also: the least essential substance in the universe, the inevitable wins pool recap, green drink, growth mindsets, bet irresponsibly, Zion’s Shakespearean arc, Trae Young’s playoff relevance, missing 100% of the shots you take or don’t take, choosing your own adventure, forgetting EPCOT, get up...

This week: new albums from Bob Vylan and The Black Keys , and last year’s next big thing Nothing But Thieves . Also: Muse for beginners, is this good, sprinkle-free, deluxe additions, having a guy, wallowing in nostalgia as a business plan, two piece endpoints, some of the same words, the raw and the cooked, Arc’ing up, kitchen vibes vs humming metrics, arrested chavelopment, getting robbed, Rage...

This week: final day permutations, three-way tiebreakers, nowhere to run, the Pacers’ turning point, handshake agreements, Houston might yet finish .500, bench punch, the future is in the future, Grayson Allen has an NBA skill, two old teams enter one old team ends, exporting your computer to America, Knicks positivity corner, Bucks negativity basement, Cavs continuity cul-de-sac, here’s the sex p...

This week: new albums from The Jesus and Mary Chain , Drunk Mums and Gesaffelstein . Also: valiant pushes, random edit points, canefield circlework, the end of Splendour, does Kylie talk to kids, the Graun on festivals , the minimal viable product model of setlists, mind the gap, still chasin’ status, why FOMO can FO, reaction dependency, mic-clipping levels of disgust, both types of music, the ir...

This week: ice bath deep dives, turning a knob down*, sleepwalking to the playoffs, how do I explain that I have no external monologue, the Wayne Carey of baseball, all Wemby all the time, Western scrums, historic faithlessness, inadvisable tanking, has Bob Myers blocked Mike Dunleavy’s number yet, teams that will be better at playoff basketball than regular basketball, teams that will be the oppo...

This week: new albums from Judas Priest , the Black Crowes and Talk Show . Also: never knowingly oversold, 1980s metal panic, greatest bits, doing yourself proud, the Powderfinger of the NWOBHM, unserious thrash, easing the seat back, have we learned nothing, pencil case recommendations, you give legacy acts a bad name, Babylon tings, new country for old men, box-set stans, every album is a journe...

This week: the Rockets’ red glare, goodnight San Francisco, regicide, unnecessary runups, unwritten rules, the hot hand fallacy fallacy, someone has to be on NBA TV, recycled Heat storylines, I totally meant to do that: the Joe Mazzulla story, showing your working, Naz Reid Appreciation Night, is ‘charlataneous’ a word, the West Big 3, the Raps’ tactical tank, the worst month of NBA discourse, RIP...

This week: old dogs, old tricks from Liam Gallagher & John Squire , Pulp fan fiction from Yard Act and SoCal fuzz from Meatbodies . Also: a message from our sponsored, unifying principles of Britpop, slipping into adult contemporary, more fluid than Jeff Beck, Wolfmother 4 Liverpool 3, live from the EPS, who needs lyrics, necessary psychedelia, lists of indeterminate length or purpose, the OWO...

This week: in a Very Special Big Round Number Episode of the BALLS Podcast, Doc, Beeso and Adam draft the most significant sporting moments of our lifetimes. If you want to help create more memories like this, donate to help Beeso’s Phillippines mixed open kids make it to the World Cup in Manchester this year. Also: frontrunners versus lovable losers, overvalued offspring, order for chaos, DIY sta...

This week: new albums from DARTZ , Sheer Mag and Mannequin Pussy . Also: Insert Amen Break Here, subverting the bogan paradigm, inappropriate kiddie choirs, troubling Venn intersects, two years behind being two years behind, high pitched whining, labouring to carve out discernably singular positions, evangelical lyricism, enjoying the noises, release date randomness, early year optimism, metallurg...

This week: pretending to have watched classic movies, one short, whose line is it anyway, regrets in Milwaukee, nightmares in Boston, redrawn axes, end-of-clock grenades, Naz has bars, having That Guy, ironing fruit, lacking respect for your authoritah, the best ability, the Red Bull civil war, a full tradies breakfast, last in first out, chasing Grant funds, young dumb and full of bad takes, stay...

This week: new albums from grime merchant Ghetts , Glaswegian minstrels the Snuts and Neapolitan riff fiends the Devils . Also: Crüe 1982, mixed bags, apologies to Scotland, underwater tunes, a hard earned joker, full Rufus spec, improving the White Stripes, nunsploitation vibes, you belong in the Zoo , Wellington Chats, tripping balls OnlyFans, the inside of Jack White’s brain, vinyl Criterion Co...

This week: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn’t a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups , no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan) B in Oston, bored in Milwaukee, Jokic vs everybody, Embiid vs reality, Chemby and Wet, further com...

This week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape , and EPs from Little Simz , Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron . Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show , a clarification, old mate Dave, the Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about the Beatles, on the buckets, ice cream on has...

This week: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game’ podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition. Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights, entering the ‘finding out’ phase, Costco content, Steph and Sabrina save the day, a Dray bar, juicy...