tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week in sport: Prizegiving ceremonies, pub orientations, draining the pool, fluffy selfies, who knew this guy would turn out a wrong’un, local celebrities, inexplicable firings, great understatements, western congestion, taking crazy pills, the Suns set in the west, fair and balanced tanking, live reactions, King Solomon parenting, eff them picks, Arsenal’s new guy, kneeds must, STONKS, infectious stupidity, modern...

This week’s new albums: The Devils | Bilk | Fake Dad 
Also: That sort of language, smells like teen spirit but tastes like Oasis, breaking the cycle, long Wire bows, uncategorisable content, leave ‘em wanting more, unwanted reminders of your ‘90s relationships, inappropriate wedding songs, bootleg merch, misplaced disappointment, selection criteria, the other deep south, Neapolitan polymaths, Daryl Somers ...

This week in sport: RIP Beeso, the Rockets’ red glare at their remaining schedule, them Euro forrens, *fingerguns*, noone is scared of anyone, Beef Stew beef, tanking at fixing tanking, Utah’s one shot, Ringer house style (aka shouty white homers crowbarring tired pop culture references into sports coverage), whither SexLand, happy in Salt Lake, fantasy Bookering, overpaying for brand names, country style, all wins pool...

This week’s new albums: Freckle | Bartees Strange | The Rollin’ Deep.
Also: laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Triphopper, technically a car podcast, a literal airbus, walking around looking at things, Paris: it’s basically Melbourne, starter kits for other people’s stuff, bowel-shaking earthquakes, anyway here’s Wonderwall, sausage royalty, they’ll be better next week, on my way to st...

This week in sport: 2018 was another country, YouTube slop supercuts, Giddey up, stupidity by the Gallen, Distracted King, old man on campus, OKC’s next scapegoat, we had no idea at this moment that the Grizzlies were hours away from sacking their head coach and two of his assistants, America hello.jpgs itself, Quebec separatism, junior football, space constraints, Beeso invents gegenpressing, reheated Mourinho, subsets, the ...

This week: new albums from The Velveteers and Rum Jungle, and an Other People’s Classic from Neutral Milk Hotel.
Also: Streisanding yourself, geographical confusion, doing too much, Legoland developments, made-up names, bottomless mixes, ‘70s speakers, the control for Beeso’s parenting experiments, poor lifestyle advice, uncut Js, Alabama Shakes in an elevator, your dads are morons, building out your music univ...

This week in sport: Much madness, Substack Nazis, dog days, the Boston Sell-ticks, geological time, Saudi money, addicted to darts, the diplomatic nightmare of World Cup 2026, LIV Basketball, long-distance away trips, crackpot theories, shenanigans afoot, billionaire socialism, there is no off position on the Process Karma switch, horse race coverage, before Grantland, differing views, trying to get people fired and there’s a...

This week’s new albums: The Murder Capital | WOOZE | Akil the MC (Jurassic 5)
Also: Practical engineering, remanifesting 1992, there is power in a union, sandwich beats, nostalgia self-bait, the next fun Irish album, massive psychotic perverts, British comedic sensibilities, twenty-something-th anniversaries, stupid but brilliant, putting the cyst in romanticist, closer to the coast, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePressReleases, it&...

This week in sport: Styles make fights, office space, degree of difficulty, fortune-telling tracksuits, owner power rankings, the Little Yin, well actually, repetitive strain injuries, Ömer Aşık slander, a dearth of Knicks positivity, The MVP Conversation™, there will be a point to this, two guys out, Oklahoma geography, Beeso solves America, bread and circuses, heartbreaking: the worst person you know etc, pitching Bris...

This week’s new albums: Pastel | Charm School | Asian Glow
Also: the front fell off, Britpop Brexiting, please help me budget this, rules for friendship, uncanny valleys, play some bangers man, the only other reason for mentioning Clone High on this podcast, dictionary definitions, other rappers are available, self-destructing darlings, #DocReadsBios does requests, feel the grimness, getting bored with your own ideas, Step...

This week in sport: Work-adjacent podcasting, Beeso’s big swim, we’re bloggin’ again, don’t pin this on me, disinterested side characters, how can the Luka trade have become worse since it happened, playoff sufferball, antigravity Steph, the seesaw of bad decisions, the Clips look better than they are, built on a burial ground, laying the groundwork, forgetting Indiana, learning nothing, hard chargers, Cleve...

This week’s new albums: Bad Bunny | The Wombats | Death By Unga Bunga
Also: weapons grade awful, BioGPT, cuddly and playful facades, 1990 Magna tapedeck hiss, getting your Frenzal and Grinspoon riffs confused, tumble in the rough, the Latin Taylor Swift, 808s and horn breaks, remaining cynical, BODO/GLIMT and soft-launching a soft music theory (which Doc expands on in his reanimated blog here.)

Next week: Charm School | Pa...

This week in sport: misguided enthusiasm in the group chat, the big two-v-three, who is Rick Rickleton, prioritising that money, prioritising not getting blowed up, win the stink win the match, all star game narratives, the clot thickens, no future is promised, figuring it out, around the grounds, Jacques Kallis strays, Kyrie talking nonsense, Australian archetypes, white mascots, Trez in residence, flipping off Amazon, timing your...

This week in sport: a half-episode with half the BALLS MotorSportNerdPod, where Doc previews the upcoming F1, Indycar, Supercars, Nascar, sportscar and MotoGP seasons with one key question: should you bother watching?

Updated albums for next week’s music ep: The Wombats | Bad Bunny | Death By Unga Bunga

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This week’s new albums: Teddy Swims | Magic City Hippies | The Hellacopters
Also: Post Karcher, live from Montjuic, Doc outsources reviews to bios, pool deck vibes, time and place and frame of mind, Christmas glassware, delete option Autotune, ‘90s intro faff, consumer motoring advice, cheap tricks, carpal tunnel syndrome, vinyl freaks, stealth Christian rock, racist makeup, a lack of proper note-taking and pairs of ...

This week’s new releases: The Weather Station | Delivery | Melter | Ghoulies

Also: Nextmen up, golden era DMCA, you can’t filter flat, egg punk vs dolewave, how Beeso got banned from the gym, noiuww means noiuww, vegan longbows, increased susceptibility to ads for seniors insurance and cruise holidays, drink like it’s Livid 2002, get the lemon pepper wings, albums people have heard of, lowered expectations and wo...

This week in sport: Test cricket, or whatever else is going on. Also: the 2x follow-on rule, a casual 60 over spell, you’re unfit and you’re not trying hard enough, making better decisions, Alex Hartley appreciation corner, it’s funny to watch England give up, Kuhnemann: come together with your plan, production meetings, getting weird before All Star, Jimmy and the Heat are each other, where does the Fox go, Blaze...

This week: new albums from Lambrini Girls, Brown Spirits and Every Possible Way - A Compilation.
Also: running in please parse, see you next Tuesday, stacks on, buying dummies, Zach Braff strays, trading while in solvent, Jazz Odyssey, unexpected snipings, 0.01 of a joker, nanobands, algorithm and blues, audio Draino, Doc’s terrible Venn diagrams, Gen X’s boomer Hottest 100 takes, the most Channel 7 thing imaginable,...