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 meta

BALLS.406 People forget Kapil Dev was a problem

7 days ago 42m 17s

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 BAL

tripping balls.383 There’s so much about the world I don’t understand

11 days ago 25m 29s

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

BALLS.405 When even John Farnham is telling you to wind it up

15 days ago 1h 3m

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

tripping balls.382 Oh that’s why this guy is a thing

18 days ago 31m 21s

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

BALLS.404 Nobody knows anything

21 days ago 37m 41s

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’

tripping balls.381 The record company’s gonna give me lots of money and everything’s gonna be alright

25 days ago 36m 23s

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 pi

BALLS.403 Chaos is a ladder

29 days ago 37m 50s

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 en

tripping balls.380 Dumb fun and dead festivals

Apr 10th, 2024 36m 36s

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

BALLS.402 Spamming the Wemby button

Apr 6th, 2024 38m 5s

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 tan

tripping balls.379 Never go full Kiedis

Apr 3rd, 2024 33m 44s

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 lear

BALLS.401 Boomers in Paris

Apr 1st, 2024 45m 58s

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,

tripping balls.378 That boy needs therapy

Mar 23rd, 2024 19m 53s

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 t

BALLS.400 What have been the most significant sporting moments across your lifetime?

Mar 17th, 2024 1h 48m

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 Phillippine

tripping balls.377 The ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting

Mar 13th, 2024 25m 5s

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,

BALLS.399 Christian single in your area

Mar 9th, 2024 40m 37s

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 au

tripping balls.376 Slow jams about the NHS

Mar 6th, 2024 28m 55s

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 Whi

BALLS.398 One-sided beef week

Mar 2nd, 2024 44m 2s

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 t

tripping balls.375 Sixpence none the wiser

Feb 28th, 2024 35m 26s

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

BALLS.397 I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul

Feb 24th, 2024 39m 43s

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 Ki

tripping balls.374 Even Rocky had a montage

Feb 21st, 2024 30m 20s

This week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale. Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune,

BALLS.396 A bit too much America

Feb 18th, 2024 46m 38s

This week in sport: Cold transitions, Western melees, altitude problems, underwhelming fortnights, something to believe in, Mavs adds, MJ’s mates, mispronouncing Artūras Karnišovas, betting on the inevitable Boston bedwetting, a week off from D

tripping balls.373 I wanna be mildly sedated

Feb 7th, 2024 31m 43s

This week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall.Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of

BALLS.395 I’m not that kind of doctor

Feb 3rd, 2024 44m 20s

This week: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root d

tripping balls.372 Deep in our bag like the fries are at the bottom

Jan 31st, 2024 1h 41m

This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times.Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, sec