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

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…

BALLS.403 Chaos is a ladder

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 Ameri…

tripping balls.380 Dumb fun and dead festivals

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…

BALLS.402 Spamming the Wemby button

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,…

tripping balls.379 Never go full Kiedis

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 leg…

BALLS.401 Boomers in Paris

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 ‘…

tripping balls.378 That boy needs therapy

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 …

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

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 Manchest…

tripping balls.377 The ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting

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…

BALLS.399 Christian single in your area

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 f…