tripping balls.384 Compulsively subverting the bit

This week: new albums fromJustice, 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 metal band, off chops, perfect bops, Gurge side projects, w…

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

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 Different time, reciprocal memberships, Adelaide conne…

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

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 to get a number one, glum half-paced rubbish, terrace a…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

tripping balls.376 Slow jams about the NHS

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 White Stripes, nunsploitation vibes, you belong in the Zo…

tripping balls.375 Sixpence none the wiser

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 Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big D…