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tripping balls (a music podcast?)The second parable of Glenn McGrath’s haircut
This week’s new albums: Jungle | Swapmeet | GA-20 with Charlie Musselwhite Also: Beeso’ll Fix It, the elephant in the room, Reloaded Honey, Cleetus McFarland…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)You should see my back catalogue
This week’s new albums: Inspectah Deck | Maara | Twisted TeensAlso: Mystery listeners, so very tired, albums you’d rather be making, forgettable new-age Euro…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Another bad night at the Indie Temple
This week’s new albums: High Fade | Mary in the junkyard | RadkeyAlso: Crowbarred stings, single-sided podcasting, the opposite of jazz, the opposite of emo…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Watch out for swans
This week’s new albums: Nia Archives | Quicksand | Yard Act Also: Premature preamble, fast love, #DocReadsAlbumReleasePromoBumf, turtle power, Greek mythology…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The hold music in Beeso’s brain
This week’s new albums: Jack White | Nubiyan Twist | Public House Also: Bog people, the project slash the excuse, unrelenting self-promotion, girl parts…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Geoblocked from Bristol
This week’s new albums: Alewya | Julez and the Rollerz | CrocodilesAlso: You don’t need to get ready if you stay ready, the Molly Meldrum of this podcast…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Have fewer thoughts
This week’s new albums: Boards of Canada | Mulga Bore Hard Rock | Dead Pioneers Also: Let it go, keeping score, Death Stranding 3 England 0, why do/are people…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Keep getting them cheques
This week’s new albums: The Heavy Eyes | Jon Spencer | The ScratchAlso: Large medium effects, delayed drops, controlled explosions, bringing that high heat…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Vocalize all the things
This week’s new albums: The Bobby Lees | Lee ‘Scratch' Perry x Mouse on Mars | The Thinking of the World Began Pounding in Our Ears the Moment We Hit…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)It’s a dangerous day to be a cold one
This week’s new albums: SLIFT | Modern Woman | Ben KidsonAlso: The most important of the least important things, Highlander soundtrack fantasy booking episode…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)You look professional
This week’s new albums: Little Barrie | Elder Island | Elder Also: Vibe restorers, three-act festivals, too big for small rooms, screen assists, whither…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The ultimate and inevitable triumph of mediocre washed-out pop
This week’s new albums: Friko | The Lords of Altamont | Harsh Riddims 5Also: Failed HIAs, making a real difference, underground club nights, Substack music…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Drink a whole carton of Tooheys Red and run into a wall
This week’s new albums: RJD2 & Supastition | Bloody Knees | EPs from Little Simz and Grocery BagAlso: confirmation bias in action, warm blankets, pen pal…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Getting banned from the Lilliput Library
This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | Melanie Baker | ISTAAlso: Headbanging, getting dog’s abuse in book dedications, dingy downstairs sessions, that one…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Incredibly clever and incredibly stupid
This week’s new albums: Trials | KNEECAP | Iguana Death CultAlso: Out of touch royalty, when catching up with high school mates goes wrong, Bad Boy Bubby vs…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Poolside hold music
This week’s new albums: Hermitude | Angine de Poitrine | AbroniaAlso: earning a crust, Liam Ro-see-ya, last week Raye-visited, pre-emptive disappointment, made…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Parking in a butchers
This week’s new albums: Courtney Barnett | Eaves Wilder | RAYE. Also: compromised assets, novelty Olympic single B-sides of the early '90s, the Rogers…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Soundtracks for unpleasant computer touching
This week’s new albums: Morgan Nagler | Truckfighters | Holy Funk*Also: Pointing and shouting, crossfit crossover, peaking on track one of album one, is the…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Time to be howled at by a weird Scotsman
This week’s new albums: Hellripper | Telenova | SurfbortAlso: A pre-dusk after dark, physios in Mudgee, the Filo diaspora challenge, explaining black metal to…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)A bag of fatigue in the loose configuration of a man
This week’s new albums: Puma Blue | VIAL | Yin YinAlso: You can dance if you want to, DOC triphop, getting icky with Tricky, the drugs don’t work, go be…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Standing behind the bins
This week’s new albums: Girl Scout | Blackwater Holylight | Automobile ClubAlso: Reaching an understanding, geometric averages, not wanting to be at the front…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Stream of conscience
This week’s new albums: GENA | Vegas Water Taxi | The Black CrowesAlso: Darts real ones, icy cold cans of coke, getting a D on the group project, Cagey…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Unresolved internet trauma
This week’s new albums: GUM | Dub Pistols x Freestylers | THUMPERAlso: Resurfacing the worst of the 19th century, engagement stalkers, old mate three names…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)People want this?
This week’s new albums: Bruno Mars | Earth Tongue | The StrippAlso: Bad times on the bullet train, Wednesday night gigs, sweaty skeevy schtick, chasing the…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Apologising for yourself in advance
This week’s new albums: Karnivool | Sahara Hotnights | The MolotovsAlso: Analogue brains, a bit of snippety-snip, all pre-apologies, a rush to judgement…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The Radiohead singularity
This week’s new albums: Keli Holiday | Demob Happy | Dream Nails Also: Water is insidious, outsourcing your admin, work with what you have, not ready for prime…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Play like you mean it
This week’s new albums: Playboy Manbaby | Gluecifer | Sargent BakerAlso: Hardline weather, guitar flavours, bipolar oscillations, on the ‘Sky, Insta reels in…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Not another teen movie soundtrack
This week’s new albums: Poppy | Black Pistol Fire | GoldfingerAlso: Mic checks, none of this is making the podcast, the Lexus nexus, midseason form, Cletus…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Stream of… something
This week we are live from Chateau de Godfather of Grime with new albums from Megadeth and Robbie Williams.Also: Drinking local, tuatara evolution, was it…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Showing a bit too much crotch
Live from Lantanaland with new albums from Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Nas & DJ Premier, and DZ Deathrays. Also: Proudly uneconomic, judging books, what…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Throwing shapes at the cops
This week: as a belated 10th anniversary special, we redraft our favourite albums of 2015-16, the first years of the music pod. Plus we put a bow on 2025 AOTY…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Buying five albums and making them your entire personality
This week: for music ep 450, we revisit the music of 1996. In a Very Special Episode to mark 450 music episodes (Big Round Number!) and kick off season 2026…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Garage bands on GarageBand and theatre nerds on acid: Album Of The Year 2025
This week: it’s Album Of The Year time. Doc and Beeso count down each of our five favourite albums of 2025, and talk near-misses, disappointments and trends…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The quick and the dead
This week: it’s Bring Out Your Dead week, our last chance to review new albums for 2025, featuring albums from Alien Weaponry | Alison Wonderland | Automatic |…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Is this that other thing that I don’t like
This week’s new albums: Mungo’s Hi-Fi | Troy Kingi | PabstAlso: unexpected empathy, geographical separation, rejected premises, previous benchmarks of this…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The best possible opportunity to succeed
This week’s new albums: Avett Brothers & Mike Patton | Cheap Trick | Home Front | Dick MoveAlso, in a bonus-length holiday special*: 25% extra, country folk…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)A space for chaos
This week’s new albums: Creeper | Psychedelic Porn Crumpets | Teen Jesus and the Jean TeasersAlso: Tech SNAFUs, more amateur dramatics, a million in prizes…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)What are we doing
This week’s new albums: DJ Premier twice over | The Vasco Era | Arseless ChapsAlso: Interchangeable descriptions, throwbacks on throwbacks, the repeatability…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The Gallagher brothers business model
This week’s new albums: The New Eves | Militarie Gun | MhaolAlso: Add jingles, big hag energy, habitual lane selectors, Niamhe say Niamhe again, words vs…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)In clip and incoherent
This week’s new albums: Geese | GANS | The Pack A.D.Also: Listener feedback, mouse models, trying everything, dissonant shifts, the wisdom of crowds, it could…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Jump in my car, things of that nature
This week’s new albums: The Southern River Band | The Superjesus | St. Paul & the Broken BonesAlso: Mineral extraction, late Foos, wasting heartbeats, knob and…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)I DON’T EVEN BELIEVE IN JEBUS
This week’s albums: New Olivia Dean and Rocket | Old SkunkhourAlso: Byron piano fights, Shield chat, live from a grass hill at UQ, big label regret, festival…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Getting out-basslined by hold music
This week’s new albums: The Living End | Say She She | SnõõperAlso: Country pubs and rail trails, digital cleanliness, backloaded takes, this song is not…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Capture the lightning
This week’s new albums: Playlunch | Queen Rodeo | Bass Drum Of DeathAlso: Beeso hates your children, the Aunty Donna effect, PNW climate soundtracks, vibe…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Spoilers, it was the drugs
This week’s new albums: Faithless | TV Death | GHOSTWOMANAlso: good old Collingwood forever, bring your kids to work day, Death Stranding 3 Juventus 4…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)An 808 halfway down the hall
This week’s new albums: The Beaches | The Beths | The HivesAlso: homeopathy, chicks can be guys too, apologetic swag, Tarantino source material, Denny Green…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Moe money, Moe problems
This week’s new albums: Pendulum | Dinosaur Pile-Up | Nunchukka SuperflyAlso: the full Hetfield, legacy confirmation bias, outlap heroics, resolutely turn of…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)With apologies to the GWS Giants
This week’s new albums: Dojo Cuts | The Unknowns | EPs from Lammping and Cult PythonAlso: make Australia 1982 again, written warnings, oversouled, don’t phake…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham
This week’s new albums: The Black Keys | As December Falls | NO CIGARAlso: Mid maxing, the kids are alright, self-service, Marmite 90s U2, black and white…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Fighting the good fight and almost immediately losing the good fight
This week’s albums: new Hotline TNT and Skinner Brothers | old (and new) Hilltop HoodsAlso: Minimal viable product, meaningless terminology, doing too much…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Not on Tim Apple’s internet
This week’s new albums: Public Enemy | Kokoroko | NODEGAAlso: wintering in Beenleigh, that JJJ Australian all-time H100: it could have been worse?, Oz hiphop’s…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Everything is a remix but not everything gets to be a remix
This week’s new albums are from Panic Shack | Benjamin Booker | His Lordship.Also: who he play for, VPLs, neurodiverse ranting, it’s over for Beeso…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Two guys that really have their hands on the knobs
This week: new music from Loaded Honey and Wet Leg | an underground classic from Danger Mouse and MF DOOM | remembering Mu from Fat Freddy’s DropAlso…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Spiral potatoes on a stick
This week’s new music: LPs from Zig Zags + Teen Mortgage | EPs from Roxferry + Polish ClubAlso: time dilation, enjoying Rockhampton, a degree of riffage, how…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Tony the Albanian, punishing normie-offs, and the ten most Australian Australian songs of the past ten years
This week: a SOLO MAN mini-ep from the Doc in which he conspiciously fails to do any better than a certain 60-something inner-west MP at making Australian song…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)The ocean is too big
This week’s new albums: Saya Gray | Frankie and the Witch Fingers | GardnaAlso: Frente goes to Austin, hurling yourself off a cliff, wild energetic flailing…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Collections of interesting noises
This week’s new albums: Little Simz | Private Function | Devin ShamelAlso: not quite day ones, heist movie set pieces, that one album of Lily Allen’s, no room…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Unlimited capacity for unmitigated caucasity
This week’s new albums: Erika de Casier | CIVIC | Dead PioneersAlso: the minimum requirements for a triphop album, retrograde inspirations, making people…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)You’re on the internet looking at feet
This week’s new albums: Wu-Tang Clan | Viagra Boys | Zzzahara Also: Deepest commisserations, early retirement, Project mushroom coverage, single track…
tripping balls (a music podcast?)Series 2 Episode 1
This week: new albums from Black Country, New Road, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and HotWax. Also: requiem for a basketball podcast, musical theatre…