BALLS.427 The Venn diagram of hubris, karma and schadenfreude

This week in sport: some poorly aged thoughts on Indian batting competence, Captain Grumpy on the rack, having twice the success, Celts-Cavs fallout, shot deserts, blame it on woke, thinking free to air television is going to save you like it’s 1984, is bad basketball less watchable than bad other-…

tripping balls.405 Largely funk-driven filth and nonsense

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub (again), Yoo Doo Right and Greenleaf. Also: almost professional, recency bias, what’s the difference, parkourlife, This Isn’t Cinema, missing narratives, the central tenets of this podcast, the Kyuss School, Swedish deserts, top five fixations, being lied t…

BALLS.426 The schedule loss of NBA podcasts

This week in sport: live sausagemaking, started at the bottom now we here, Thursday scaries, unintended consequences, duelling stats, Traede Young, the Cavs already have the 1 seed, Wemby ruins narratives, Rudy reinforces them, Dub mixes, washed references, strength of schedule, escaping to BlueSky…

tripping balls.404 Listen to more music

This week: new albums from Maverick Sabre, Mr. Gnome and Jon Spencer. Also: reanimating your dead time, I can’t believe they’ve taken Warren’s wealth, Instagram filters for music, bold and inventive evolutions as an artist, hitting zones, three bangers, you make me sick I make music, swamp origins,…

BALLS.425 Justice for Tungsten Arm O’Doyle

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tripping balls.403 Where’s our simp anthem

This week: new albums from Amyl and the Sniffers, Confidence Man and The Offspring. Also: Weird Al parodies, gluing the floor scrapings back on, what’s ‘shameless fan service’ in Portuguese, upsetting the ghost of Beeso, straying from the light, Protracker punk riffs, a very long run-up for a very …

BALLS.424 Small sample size masterpiece theatre, 2024 edition

This week in sport: trying to make sense of a week of NBA games that told us not a lot more than a day did. Also: school holiday childcare, three-heavy basketball sucks, an entire team going 50-40-90, statue or stat someone else?, big outliers, big worries, a Dyson that doesn’t suck, capture the Fl…

tripping balls.402 Why’d you give up on miso soup

This week: new albums from Salmonella Dub and Magic Machine, and a Hanni El Khatib collection from 2017. Also: unhoused marine mammals, the polymath-to-flog pipeline, organ donors, rushed homework, George Lucasing your masterpieces, ocean metaphors, deploy the Troy Kingi, Sabre rattling, getting Kn…

BALLS.423 Bringing that South Beach SEGABABA energy

This week in sport: our traditional massive overreactions to one game of NBA basketball episode, in which we… yeah you can probably figure it out eh. Also: insulting Scotland, serial killers, non-showering teenagers, unserious organisations, false advertising, altitude sickness, Kawhi are you not p…

tripping balls.401 And you know you are

This week: new albums from TISM, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Nice Biscuit. Also: rolling in dog dirt, pure uncut fan service, forced interstitials, ultramarathon training, exactly what was expected, unsafe working at height, the best of what’s left of, biscuit meditations, structural thought, the Dan Auerbach…