The BALLS Podcast | tripping balls (a music podcast)
485 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago -Rambling arguments about sport and music between two people that know little about either.
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BALLS.219 Born when meat was cheap
August 31, 2019 06:37 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBThe Doc’s doctorate was not in mathematics, flex on ‘em, the NFL is BACK, leaving it to the audience, hands-on owners, Knickstarter campaigns, Luck’s a fortune, the RG3-Luck draft class (fun fact: it also had Russ and Kaep), Brooklyn stays Melo, Iso Joe has a go and gets a go, quarterback comebacks, the Anton Oliver of the NFL, offensive offensive line play, Sean McVay’s friends, caravans and franking credits, England 1 (Jeffers 69) Australia 3 (Popovic 17, Kewell 41, Emerton 83), this matter...
BALLS After Dark.192 Well THAT'S going in the edit
August 29, 2019 05:49 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBThis week: new albums from old bands Ride and Sleater-Kinney, missing the rain down in Lanka, things we forgot, things we remembered, hammock recaps, altered states, it’s not me it’s not you, party Pils, 25 years and my life is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination, do the evolution, glorified drum machines, midlife crises, buns akimbo, difficult second comeback albums, lego kickstarters, poison pie, firefights, staying on message, prodigal returns, 2016 deep di...
BALLS.218 Too fat for bush footy
August 24, 2019 06:39 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBMarvel superhero vision, localised Fyres, explaining the internet, enough Jofra, drop-in hold-outs, Lions roaring, Fev-en years bad luck, our not-at-all-outdated-and-prisoner-of-the-moment third test coverage, Australians have no class, insufficient highlights, offending your Pop, shadow puppets, the Burnley of world basketball, rank rugby, triple-out-of-quadruple crowns, win it or bin it, the inherent problem with motorsport, the Sterling Affairs, everything is David Stern’s fault, Hov sells...
BALLS After Dark.191 Hey hey we're the Drunkees
August 21, 2019 03:57 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBThis week: new albums from Ty Segall and the Teskey Brothers, rugby songs, shirts from 1971, Bibendum goes gardening, hey hey we’re the Drunkees, making a small fortune from Tumblr, cultured subcultures, drinking from firehoses, stop thinking too hard, plug your guitar in m8, Motown for white people, heavy beats, discovering Discover Weekly, songs about gambling, gym muzak, Six N Out, Tommy Lee has views, outsourcing your choices, examining your preconceptions, fifteen year breakups, bad prot...
BALLS.217 Freezing Cold Draykes
August 17, 2019 22:46 - 56 minutes - 51.4 MBReal-time reactions to day-old events, never let the internet choose your beer, stop breaking down, whither WSC Supertests, wrong numbers, shirt sales, making friends, bowling first, Joe Felch, the irrelevant Dunning-Kruger racists of the Australian media, the Confederations Cup of basketball, putting the Boomers in camps, some sort of Venn diagram of Hinch, Rossi, Andretti, Walkinshaw, United and McLaren do Bathurst, the decline of red versus blue, off track with Hinch and Rossi, special gue...
BALLS After Dark.190 This one’s for the ladies
August 15, 2019 11:24 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBNew Slowthai and Titus Andronicus, egg hunts, Beesoing is back, Brexit banditry, home electrical PSAs, no reply guys, S&M II: Orchestral Boogaloo, Doc reads bios, key metrics, queue jumping, one for the record books, when I get that feeling, I love rock and roll, Joan Kirner and the Blackhearts and the grime exclusion zone. Next week: Ty Segall and the Teskey Brothers. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify (earlier albums from 2019 are archived here), al...
BALLS.216 Get out and stay out
August 12, 2019 04:38 - 57 minutes - 52.2 MBParental guidance, weird smudges, being really good turns out to be hard, good old England, don't talk just go, you're getting sacked in the Moeen-ing, sandpaper sanctimony, Head cases, font fails, horses for courses, the point of Mitch Marsh (other than keeping Dan Liebke in jokes), selfrickrolling, the Edgbatoir, playing across the Lyon, the NBA all-2010s teams, nuclear war with Kobestan, Duncan scores donuts, Beeso still hates Melo with the fire of a thousand suns, centre-shaped objects, d...
BALLS After Dark.189 The old slide whistle test
August 08, 2019 09:45 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBNew stuff from Summer Cannibals and Rich Brian, long cons in the edit shed, Bootsy ’n’ all, show your references, St Vincent D’Appalled, Brut force and ignorance, partings of the ways, lost albums, albums that should have been lost, Americans suck at pop culture, the life of Brian, fake internet radio shows, too gross too quick, the six million follower man, willing to be disappointed, Frampton Comes Alive, playlist copouts, high concept versus loud noises, chasing status and welcome back to ...
BALLS.215 A little bit in the weeds: the BALLS Podcast story
August 05, 2019 09:34 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBThis week: pantomime villains, show don't tell, J-Rod on Ashes day one, doctored Ramsey, masthead loyalty, final words, in the Weids, stopping leaks, neither the journey nor the destination, shield cricket: it's not the NBA, gamble irresponsibly, picking your battles, our exceedingly up-to-date first test coverage, getting healthy, competitive doping, suing the NFL out of existence, sixteen out of eighteen, spouting rubbish, Skipper Smudge, I don't look so sharp now I got a heavy head, buying...
BALLS After Dark.188 Another reason to hate golf
August 01, 2019 06:49 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBNew albums from misery-borne Melburnian Gena Rose Bruce and Perthonalities Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, kicking on, the MDA School, different tricks, alleys in the Valley, New Years revolutions, memories puttering out, beer recommendations, it’s my fault you left me, hoping for a mazz, the magic shownoting fairy, avoiding doom, liking wow and wiping out. Next week’s new reviews will be Rich Brian and Summer Cannibals. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify ...
BALLS.214 It's good areas
July 28, 2019 03:37 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBThis week in celebrity cryostorage, the novelty of an actual offseason, World Cup disinterest, one week away from being one week away, the JVG-League, Dray without drive, following the stars, turning it creepy, owning LA, Lakers chain guy dot gif, the Cliparts, rockin' to the beat of the fabulous Forum, teams to avoid, why is Charlotte, the Irish Adam Dale, this bit about laughing at England collapsing didn't age well, picking Shield over ODI bowlers, juiced Dukes, riveting calendar chat, the...
BALLS After Dark.187 Never go Full Science
July 25, 2019 09:08 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBNew albums from Stonefield and the Black Keys, This Week In My Internet, shut your trap music, the real victims of invisible likes, contractual obligations, can you be back on your BS if you never left, schtick to what you know, lame impala, quote unquote, bell fractures, relearning naivete, headcount as a distinguishing characteristic, songs from car ads, different dudes, not the hilltop to die on, get back in the car Gary, hero cosplay, inapproriate content, Full Science, Saturday Morning C...
BALLS.213 WILL REGULATE.
July 22, 2019 05:05 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBRegulators, mount up: Doc and Beeso are back G-riffing on the Pels, overreacting to summer league, talking to kids, Not Quite The Spurs Way, free agency recap, bye bye Brodie, you can't spell 'shallowest' without 'west', get Vince a job, Dubs get younger, PG6½, the Dr Yobbo Perpetual Trophy, CUB leftovers, Baltic pine, Beeso's wine budget, CP free, team dynamics, OKC ownership, lock stock and two smoking barrels, NBA stardom is pointless, the World Cup of rock scissors paper, Perry good at he...
BALLS After Dark.186 It’s only rock ’n’ jowl but I like it
July 18, 2019 10:55 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week: King Gizzard, Polish Club, the Godfather of Grime, genre-jumping weirdos, is clever good, Gizzverse mythology, thunderstorm filters, too old for 4K, are millennials killing ironic likes, alright stop, Alien Weaponry make friends in Denmark, come party with me, summer beer ads, doing less with more, we have opinions on the Splendour 2019 lineup, two piece plus, pinned posts, Glastormzbury, car audio PSAs and Adam and the Doc’s latest picks for the kids. Next week: new albums from “T...
BALLS.212 Basketball Without Shoulders
July 13, 2019 01:28 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week you're in a slightly echoey room at Chateau D'Adamhfoto (blame idiot audio engineer Doc) for a live one on elite lineage, Rocket Russ, mostly ‘armless, kawaiting for Kawhi, the round mound of rebound, stat chasing, affording a rebuild, going big in LA, old people, cold world, Miami retirees, But The Warriors, Utah hipsters, regress to the meme, Ben’s to-do list, workplace relations, defend your suck, Starc awakenings, looting the counties, CWC postmortems, apologising for Ian Smith,...
BALLS After Dark.185 The Grim Creeper
July 05, 2019 05:02 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBThis week: new albums from Skepta and the Racon-and-or-Saboteurs, plus: ironic Reschs, terrible words, correctly ordered noises, crushing stupidity, 90s disco, never being mad, contractual obligations, Georgia’s Oasis, floor-to-ceiling compression, Albums I’m Not Sure About, TOFOP territory, the kids playlist, licking cane toads and welcome back to the jungle. Next week: Polish Club and King Gizzard with Adamhfoto. Current and recent review albums are in our album review playlist on Spotify ...
BALLS.211 Respect my agency
July 01, 2019 09:10 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBEMERGENCY POD: Beeso and the Doc break down the two billion of your American dollars worth of insanity that was the first few hours of NBA free agency 2019, including KD and Kyrie to the Nets, the Dubs DLoad and go again, Enjoy Memphis, Miami and Philly play swapsies, the adult in the room, Pelicans bowerbirding, Barca’s transfer record, solid Jazz, Phoenix finally have a point, the Bucks get brave, duelling Deathstars, big swings and definitive calls, Kawhi so noncommittal, splitting your ma...
BALLS.210 Mitchell Starc’s comfort pony
June 30, 2019 05:10 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBThis week: Building a wall and getting the punters to pay for it, far more much more, making a small fortune in motorsport (out of a large one), long live the Amco Cup, doing too much, staying Melo, #FakeWojSzn, laughing less at the Lakers, failing upwards, KawhiMac, fringe benefits, do Space Jam 2 cameos count as third party payments, learn mathematics with Ivan Zamorano, Kemba Walks, the value of turning up and hanging around, RUOK Daryl, amateur pyrotechnics with Beeso, how bad can it be?,...
BALLS After Dark.184 The international language of love
June 26, 2019 08:48 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week: disproportionate arguments over new albums from Scots indie act Honeyblood and Mudbourne pub-punk ratbags Amyl and the Sniffers, plus bringing the heat, metta world core, sacking the drummer, blowing out the mics, way WAY more strident thing, everything is disappointing, unloaded questions, howling not wailing, strong magnetic forces, New Saints, Afrikaan Kaant, getting fake internet angry, frontloading your ideas, Drake vs the Beatles, lone genius tropes, never get Jack White to v...
BALLS.209 Beyond a joke
June 23, 2019 06:52 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week we're old-person-phoning-in a NBA draft special on Beeso's failsuns, having more dollars than sense, Griff's GM masterclass, casual vs formal NBA fandom, the Spurs being back on theirs, laughing at Boston, throwing shade at the Knicks, Wojet's Thesaurus, tinfoil in Lakerdom, RIP Marvin, headless in Houston, the Chris Paul school of coaching, Salt Lake Conley, Clips going Raps, guaranteeing another Dubs title, feeding the monster, old Bulls, rekt by Shaq, Valiant efforts, eleven dead...
BALLS After Dark.183 I got a note from me mum
June 19, 2019 10:02 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBNew albums from Loyle Carner and Dinosaur Pile-Up, making Drake look like Kawhi, featured bars, respect my agency, sad boys need beats too, Olangetti Returns, mixtape picks, Weeweezer, Los Angeleeds, conversations with FIDLAR, properly stupid, this is it folks over the top, Bogan Blondie, the international language of pop, old people with terrible opinions, roof-bound fiddlers and lawnmower fluid. Next week: Honeyblood and Amyl and the Sniffers. Current and recent review albums are in our alb...
BALLS.208 The big three killed my baby
June 16, 2019 04:06 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBThis week, hours after the end of the NBA finals: Driving innovation, our comprehensive Le Mans preview, too tenuous for GoT, goodnight Oracle, ripples in spacetime, big wraps for the Raps, #StephAintClutch, Beeso: KD will never win another title, under pressure, get that bag, the Rob Green of the NBA Finals, dynasty gap years, who’s a baseball player, cluster luck, cumulative fatigue, next year’s Dubs, Kawhi’s choice, the Lakers getting AD, why do people live where it’s -20C all winter, Bees...
BALLS After Dark.182 It's been emotional
June 13, 2019 09:11 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MBThis week: new albums from previous pod faves Black Mountain and Satan Takes A Holiday, lawnmower siphoning, hell is other people’s children, a little bossanova, a bit 2015, prog throwbacks, Floydian subtweets, do more riffs, searching for equilibrium, circular standup, nonagon to infinity, playing for a draw, meeting your contractual obligations, rejecting maturity, brief self-indulgences, clapped out Datsuns, Berlin heroin Bowie, junk from midrange, never go back, the nicer end of South Lon...
BALLS.207 Never go full Spooky Mulder
June 08, 2019 10:17 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBThis week: Stars and bars, Copa Australia, Latin style, for exposure, Starc observations, expert opinions, shouts to Western Sydney, ready for prime time, a remarkably coherent and reasonably well-informed Womens World Cup preview, nightly narratives, already incorrect NBA Finals game 4 predictions, Steph's LeBron moment, owners getting owned, The Worldwide Leader In Takes, Spurs succession planning, Nick Nurse wears a hat, Kawhi can't draw, in the weeds of the weeds, what are Brooklyn up to,...
BALLS After Dark.181 You can’t spell Noel without No
June 05, 2019 01:36 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBNew albums from Hunt The Witch and the Skints, bofadeez, Pokemon phylogeny, diabetes redux, strong opinions, roster teardowns, vocal mismatches, ADR cringe, the problem with seeing U2 live, casual shade, motofos, UB39, Kid CookerCudi, difficult choices, the same but worse, ouroborass, destroyerers, musicals for Africa and dried fruits for kids, plus in the After After Dark: healthy Skeptacism, Beeso’s contractually-obligated weekly Little Simz reference and our 2019 Mixtape picks. Next week: ...
BALLS.206 Rogue Game One
June 01, 2019 09:06 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBThis week: Breakering news, college is expensive, building the NBL, knocking down the A-League, midweek champions, Dysfunction Junction, get your Hinkie on, Heath hazards, swerving Earvin, be here now, performative blowhards, the Nuremberg defence, collecting the full set, game one overreactions, very eastern Europe, the morals of fandom, Doc solves the Middle East, Sarri for leaving, some sort of Champions League final preview, trading MDA, saving dumb owners from themselves, brown bag journ...
BALLS After Dark.180 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street
May 30, 2019 05:09 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week: CRJ, Zig Zags, the Heavy, Gen X are banned from doing protest music, diabetes, high fructose corn syrup, Spack Aimless & Waterbrain, making people happy, tough hangs, a star is bored, This Is The Chorus, won't somebody think of the algorithms, this joke is ded, shout out to my eggs, thinking too much, a star is still bored, stuck in the mud, the right kind of 80s nostalgia, not safe for work, 'phoning it in, background briefing, stop having fun, extended EPs, everything is a throwb...
BALLS.205 The Bucks stop here
May 25, 2019 06:40 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBAll-NBA last-team podcasters Beeso and the Doc on Giannis vs Kawhi, Bud sticks to his script, it turns out coaching is easier when you have the best players on the court, pinball wizards, stanning for Pelinka, aggregate it!, buying the Suns. somebody has to suck, calcio calcification, institutional wisdom, watchable Warriors, re-evolving Point Dray, cheap day Klay, can't stop won't stop, Game of Staples, A New (Orleans) Hope, Kawhi go elsewhere, never give up on your take, never work hard, do...
BALLS After Dark.179 Judging on curved spacetime
May 23, 2019 11:48 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBThis week: Beeso and the Doc review new albums from the Chemical Brothers (yes, finally) and Clowns, plus: previously on the After Dark, expanding EPs, gaming the work playlist, again with the Simz, World Cup anthems, Cyrus the virus, the right noises in the right order, special relativity as it relates to the Album Of The Year, pray for Beeso (and Dr Mrs Beeso), no time for 2015, the godfather of grime, clown shows, Punk Rock 101, serving suggestions, unwanted crossovers, Bliss drivebys, the...
BALLS.204 Touch and go: Beeso's World Cup adventure
May 21, 2019 10:07 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBA special bonus episode of the BALLS Podcast, in which Beeso goes to Malaysia as the new head coach of the 19th-world-ranked Philippines mens touch team and discovers that the real Touch World Cup was the friends he made along the way (or something like that). If you're interested in coaching, international touch tactics, team building, KL dining, drinking your way through Epcot or any of the other terribly niche rubbish we talk on this show, listen in. The intro music will make more sense af...
BALLS.203 The Warriors are climate change
May 19, 2019 09:16 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThis week: The Doc welcomes back infrequent guest Beeso to talk NBA playoffs, Euro football and some touch world cup (more on that in a forthcoming bonus ep). Also: Getting shots up, Very Kroenke, Agent Zion, Pelican-do attitudes, you can't spell trade without AD, failsons of NBA ownership, the second best basketball team in history, the Blazers are cooked, Klay to Portland, Spare Curry, terrible Sixers takes, one bounce away, frank(vogel)ing credits, there's a fraction too much factions, ric...
BALLS After Dark.178½ The EP ep
May 15, 2019 08:52 - 20 minutes - 19.2 MBWith Beeso out this week (DNP-CD) here's a short episode about short albums, in which the Doc shares some of the new non-album-length music he's been listening to that he thinks you might like, including new short-players from The Shrine, Skinny Hobos, WOOZE, Charger, The Heavy, Warish and Munky. Here's a playlist with all those EPs on it in sequence so you can listen along at home. Helpful aren't we. Sorry about the mic sound, Doc's laptop decided to ignore the actual mic, in what can only b...
BALLS.202½ So light years ahead that they travelled back in time
May 11, 2019 07:36 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBStraight after the end of Dubs-Rox game 6, Doc cracks a solo pod on the Rockets blowing up (and blowing up the Rockets), the Dubs being so light years ahead they time-travelled to 2015, awkward family reunions, Steph's game of two halves, KD's injury, Klay's bag, #NARRATIVE, Stay-Puft Cosplay Guy, Balkan bantz, big name Dame, all good with the Hood, 2-3 syncronicity, JoJo's guts, Ben and Jimmy, Ballmer and Kawhi, Masai's moves, Revenge Of The 60-Win Hawks, The Truth hurts, let them eat cake, ...
BALLS After Dark.178 Invader Ace
May 08, 2019 08:52 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThis week on the After Dark, Dan aka Ace McWicked from At The Drive Thru joins the Doc to review new stuff from the Drums and Dandy Warhols, offer some pre-review reckons on the Chemical Brothers' new album and nominate his favourite albums of the last year and a bit. Also: Production power moves, waveform jealousy, NZ's next top podcast, AOTYTD, previously on After Dark With Ace, grimy sharehouses, the Beeso School of Picking Albums, drums solo, forgotten years, lost Britpop, BIO101, white m...
BALLS.202 [Screams internally]
May 06, 2019 02:04 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBBAH GAWD THAT'S ADAMHFOTO'S MUSIC. With Beeso on World Cup duty, Adam joined the Doc to talk NBA playoffs, English football and 2006 Commonwealth Games synchronised swimming. But of course. Also: It's time to play the music, staying on-brand, Dame winners now and then, Merry Christmas, Russ never sleeps, Durant Hardens up, overtime > dinnertime, the Dubs exist therefore your argument is invalid, is The Andrew Bogut Experiment a jazz trio or a Sky News show, unguarded moments, The People's Elb...
BALLS.201 Absinthe and ugg boots
April 27, 2019 06:43 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBThe BALLS MOTORSPORTNERDPOD returns for 2019, in which the Doc is joined by regular MSNP guest host Matt (BernieTB to selected corners of the internet) to discuss the absolute state of Azerbaijani trackworks, manhole-scaping and flatbed truck operation, the purpose of the Montague St Bridge, driving around Monaco with the handbrake on, all-drain-cover all-stars, things illegal in Canberra, this Latham's not for turning, Monteiths Country, liquid opinions, the point of wagons, badge engineerin...
BALLS After Dark.177 Change your name and move countries
April 26, 2019 06:00 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBThis week: new albums from Little Simz and Hot Lunch, our next OB location, going way back, cop killer (it's better you than me), trailing the zeitgeist, you're the voice, grime and venom, not coming back, therapy?, easter eggs, West Coast Offence, reading reviews that agree with you, shared lunch, '69 (nice), gorgeous gorge, stoner jazz, mixed fruit jam, off ya 'nana, Simz track-by-track, mics don't sound nice, breaking stuff, world cup soundtracks, Spongebob Squarewave, repelling venns, cal...
BALLS.200 We probably should have done something special for this yeah
April 20, 2019 05:37 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBThis week, from a variety of undisclosed locations on the Australasian coastline: Bond hideouts, 200 episodes, #KawhiAintClutch, the best time to smack someone in the mouth, outlandish predictions, terrible Simmons takes, a big four-and-a-half, teach the children, Spurs limitations, the unbearable lightness of being KD, next year’s Dubs, this year’s Blazers, Layoff P, hope kills, more Derrick White chat, broken serve, broken brains, doing nothing in Utah, doing a lot in Memphis, lads it’s Pho...
BALLS After Dark.176 808s and fartbreaks
April 16, 2019 19:40 - 45 minutes - 42 MBThis week Adamhfoto and the Doc review new albums by Priests and Fat Cops, while the Gurge got off their heads and decided to make a kids album so of course we had to have a listen. Also: things worse than Doc's singing, market research, hiding your swears from the kids, As A Busy Mum, the worst idea of all time, kids stuff for parents, the Kong Foo Sing (Is A Sometimes Food), bubble focus, pompous obnoxious vs fun obnoxious, I look like I live in a coma, the Pub Landlord's political career, ...
BALLS.199 That's all folks
April 13, 2019 08:42 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBThis week Adamhfoto joins the Doc to press the red button on farewelling the NBA regular season and previewing the playoffs, plus: needing no introduction, Dirk v Dwyane, this Bud's for 3, being too online, final game stat-hunting, berating the Blazers, the East is still trash, Spurs in spurts, home comforts, grown men who cannot dress themselves independently, Death Star exhaust ports, Mad Monday on a Thursday, ethnic dads, Magic's disappearing act, Suns of Anarchy, calling the BALLS Beer Be...
BALLS After Dark.175 Not quite Big Kev excited
April 10, 2019 10:31 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBThis week: new stuff from Melbourne's Cast Down and LA's Ex Hex. Also: self-deconstruction, is it just me, the flail of the wild, bones of pop, the influence game, nostalgia for a time you never experienced, Beeso's Quality Used Cars, Tape 40 Australia, wind machine feels, Accidental Album Of The Week, three course meals, chasing white whales, bane of the algorithm, Bullish on UK grime, ChemBros on the J Files, Doc'sbusyweek and malt money, malt problems. Then a quick After After Dark on the ...
BALLS.198 For whom the Beal tolls
April 06, 2019 02:46 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThis week: Beeso gets his Geoffrey Robertson on (kids, ask your parents) with a bunch of NBA hypotheticals, we give away our 2018-19 NBA Anti-Awards (for the worst coach, GM and rookie of the year, plus 15th Man and LVP), and one hot minute in the Championship promotion race. Also: washed references, Ernie Grunfailed, I can see clearly now, live factchecking, Rocket flamouts, he like to party, Nipsey + Russell, peaking your spots, Dubs-Nugs mismatches, Malone again naturally, more washed refe...
BALLS After Dark.174 Do not operate heavy machinery, may cause drowsiness
April 03, 2019 23:47 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBThis week: new albums from duelling LA indie acts SASAMI and Cherry Glazerr, while Lugnet demonstrate that in 2019 rock isn't dead, it's just Scandinavian. Also: not everyone deserves music, machinery head, RUOK, reply guys, Swedish subs, bad Ace takes, three album runs, Californicated, imedgen draggings, how long is it, Fangs for the memories, the general state of everything, owning your space, the true insidiousness of college sports, BOATS in cafes, Fat Freddy's J-Files, practice facilitie...
BALLS.197 Welcome to Jazz Club
April 01, 2019 05:55 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBNiiice. This week: loving the Lakers, Slovenians on South Beach. southwest headlines, never watch injury replays, MVP narratives, what up Beck, batting for your average, stoner references, skipping out on being skipper, Paul Collingwood is older than Actual Collingwood, duelling jersey retirements, taking it to the grave, Jeanie's Choice, learning nothing from your experiences, specialist assistance, book it up on Mike's tab, deserve ain't got nothing to do with it, free agents starting with ...
BALLS After Dark.173 Get a Brian, morans
March 27, 2019 22:27 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBThis week the After Dark reviews new albums from the Beasts (née O'Bourbon) and Karen O + Danger Mouse. Also: getting shirty, the weight of mortality, keeping it real to reel, running from Danger, layered vs mixed, the Brian Genious has logged on, drifting Ferraris through a Westfield carpark, other reviews are available, Fever To Tell Normies To Jog On, yeah nah yeah, Are They Still Making Them, Japanese breakfast, music teachers are committed and certainly should be, Doc's inside voice, lis...
BALLS.196 Accumulators... mount up
March 24, 2019 02:06 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBNBA floors and ceilings, Bo-get rekt, plug-in vets, 5-6-7-8!, first round feelings, Stay-Puft cosplay, undervaluing low picks, Because The Spurs, Gail Miller is not here for your racist trash, Austin without the F1 track, Broke Off, free agents and big markets, Mike from the mailroom gets a pay rise, power-ranking interesting Melbourne Storm players, The Odd Couple, Danny Ainge ain't die for this, Mike (for) Lowry, distressed egotists, Light Years, Sorry Irving, New Faces, Simmons' salute to ...
BALLS After Dark.172 Sharon share alike
March 21, 2019 03:49 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThis week: new albums from Brooklyn bleakpop artist Sharon Van Etten and Sleaford Mods who are neither from Sleaford nor mods (stay woke fam). Also: if you're happy and you know it make a high-pitched squeal, Van's warped, peaking in 1964, whither the O'Neill Bump, old duck comebacks, regional punter karaoke, Graham Coxon lookalikes, YOU HAVE TO SIGN FOR IT MATE, sniping picks, that book about the '00s New York rock scene, what's new in the Zoo, McWhirter the squirter, deceased beasts, single...
BALLS.195 Moves like Jokic
March 17, 2019 21:49 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week: trying to remain hopeful, freefall Jazz, Western compressions, rodeo clowns, absolute Dereks, a bad time to be good, Dream Off, words to that effect, as a Mistral employee once told me you're only as good as your fans, Bogut's Bogans, Lakers excrementalism, TRADE LEBRON!!1!, Impractical Magic, Disney villains, friends don't let friends Knick, Beal's idiot mate, zone is for cowards, changing the rules, shouts to Tim Schenken(s), DIY breeze, round is a shape, win on Sunday sell (som...
BALLS After Dark.171 Music For The Washed Generation
March 14, 2019 04:56 - 46 minutes - 43 MBThis week the After Dark premieres the new Chemical Brothers/Formula 1 collab, pours several out for the late great Keith Flint and runs critical ears over new albums by UK rapper AJ Tracey and Texan blues artist Gary Clark Jr. Also: lowering Red Bull labour costs, RUOK, rediscovered joy, the night is my friend, mah wahfe, Hick Newcastle, nothing is the mainstream, social strata through media, music is sport, out on going out, putting the grim in grime, permission to diverge, things you may ...
BALLS.194 A touch of Tunstall
March 09, 2019 10:30 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBThis week: Hating the east, God-given gifts, the Lakers are everyone's fault, veterans affairs, the Jacques Kallis of the NBA, the Rime of the Ancient Pizzagater, pulling a Manu out, the South Queensland Crushers of the NBA, the cult of Kobe, attributing to idiots, Cambage chasing cabbage, men in blazers, the National Ratio League, consent protocols, Cheese Shop tributes at the Erko, Karma is Real, Panic St Germain, the Lakers of Euro football, Ol' Gunnar, #IndividualBrilliance, Zizou's lega...