This week: England’s dreaming, cultural assimilation, Queensland maths, mid-season variance, on the bus from Innisfail, excessive Kendrick, the end of the Dubs dynasty, the new Cash Considerations, which one is the Spare Wiggins, cheap Nuggets, free agenzzzzy, eastbound and down under, Luka Doncooked, chemistry kits, this week’s instalment of OKC F…

This week in music: new albums from Joywave, Fu Manchu and The Tibbs. Also: hockey music, in defence of Coldplay??, fulfilling your contractual obligations, hair grunge, shifting air, Kingi of the desert, swing revival survivors, TOCB, too much work, the fine line between enjoyable and annoying, deluxe edition origin stories, bluegrass Turbonegro a…

This week in sport: Saudi vs Everton, dictionary definitions, aspirational targets, Kvaradona’s horrible annus, Ronaldo’s best position, this Italy chat aged well, bring back Nike tournament ads, lost in Paris, the Swiss spine, continuing until morale improves, Beeso surprisingly brings it back to his own coaching, get out of the way, Covid struggl…

This week in music: new albums from Alfie Templeman, Earth Tongue and Hockey Dad. Also: fame chasers, defining indie, pro-vaccine takes, oooo spoooky, taxation multiplication, rat sweat, colour charts, we’ve just run out of indie cliches, nothing ventured or gained, ice ice ice, Swingers vs Singles, ripping off the ripoff, dot dot dot, the Ugly Duc…

This week: whatareya, Spain bombing from three, playing yourself into or out of favouritism, crossing the streams, international footballers are good at international football (not you England), Cristiano Ronaldo: ultimate team player, Hollywood saves, being blogged at, convoluted second-round maths, conditional Belgian bandwagons, An Ukraine, adop…

This week: New albums from Emma Donovan, Whores and Bad Nerves. Also: Paul Blart Touch Coach, dream collabs, lots of bits, all stand, making Gore happy, credits roll, obscure NBA jokes, early 90s without context, teaching your children well, Sunset Strip hair farmers, Gen X authenticity wars, zero nutritional value, keep off the Supergrass, two Bee…

This week in sport: crushing tape, salute to Tintin, 2016 redux, Dutts doing deals, offending and pleasing in equal measure, ready for prime time, one red one white, what you heard, home before the postcards, maps to the stars, a deeper dive on Austrian football philosophy and tactics than anyone would have reasonably expected, two guys and a bunch…

This week: New albums from Cage The Elephant, Big Special and Arab Strap. Also: call and response training, evolutionary musicology, a missed opportunity for a Glenn McGrath joke, ranting about misery, misery about ranting, soft acts to follow, Beeso falls for the old deluxe edition banana in the tailpipe, make fun noises, no relation and no leg to…

This week: Luka’s hard earned thirst needs a big cold beer, unexpected broomery, everyone’s favourite game show: Tired Or Stupid?, 14 feet of disappointment, Minnesota headwinds, topical satire, contractually obligated Thunder Future Chat, la génération dorée, get fit with Boris, why Joe Mazzulla is bad at merging, space-filling narratives, keeping…

This week: Beeso’s live report from Jungle, plus new albums from Nia Archives, The Zutons and Slash. Also: not bhed good soize, architect visions, setlist analytics, rusted-on karaoke, big beat is back, keep it moving, rockstar cosplay, it’s twenty louder, conditioned by poor choices, Kool-Aid entries, finding religion, more Seventies than the Seve…

This week: the game we’d been waiting the entire NBA playoffs for, mid-00s A-League, sentient cotton buds, putting your body in positions it shouldn’t be, meaningless levers, choosing to not go all-in, props to the Mavs front office, unplayable lies, fearing the worst title team in recent history, stop listening to internet effwits, doing Draymond …

This week: new albums from English Teacher, Wine Lips and Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol. Also: tailoring banking to your needs, the laundry-related talk-singing UK band Doc couldn’t think of is Dry Cleaning, punishing theatre kids, indie Thursdays, joke metal alloys, pro Canada, rocking horse rarities, after-dinner gelato, getting headless, Chic …

This week, nearing the 3am-ugly-lights stage of the NBA playoffs second round: fast forwarding to the inevitable, being criminally French, views from the podcastariat, Doc complaining about someone else’s takes lacking nuance, Denver’s counterpunch worked until it didn’t, silence your notifications, Dortmund uber alles, good stories don’t make good…

This week: new albums from Brittany Howard, Master Peace and Mdou Moctar. Also: government handouts, closed Zoos, Rev limiters, ranked Arenas, broken records, Music Hall passes, live performance headwinds, tiny desks, managing to both misspell and mislocate Seattle’s KEXP, the Black Keys playing your high school hall, not in those shoes mate, an in…

This week: an early-second-round vibe check from the NBA playoffs. Also: I’ll have what she’s having, one-seeds dropping one, Boston did the thing, the Dirkification of Jokic, Ant and the Antettes, 70s throwbacks, m isplaced faith in the ancients, engaged in the discourse, the Boogie Zone, your mileage may vary, Bread Corner, Thibs’ high-wire act, …

This week: new albums from Justice, 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, where does Quan do his big shop, barely recalled rev…

This week: the Leastern Conference, sim to end, the 1991/92 World Series Cup, turning blind, close ≠ good, camping with the Knicks, bits we lost control of, the quietest of quitting, not liking our allies, the decline and fall of a one-time BALLS Podcast Spirit Vegetable, trading rosters, architectural flaws, the one guaranteed way to lose in the n…

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 connections, grunge-informed noise, stupid Zac Efron movi…

This week: screaming over the peak, game state simulations, DLo Schröder, considering your options, this guy sucks, stopping Zion, 7/8 decision time, bad impersonations of the 2016 Cavs, the Alonso-Slater plan, get back East, Balkan beareotypes, Sisyphus’ job satisfaction, so much for that Patreon pledge, has KD ever run a play, New Words With Bees…

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 anthems, blaming Metacritic, Casiotone demo modes, u…

This week, massive overreactions to one game of yada yada you know the bit by now: NBA playoffs edition! Also: the least essential substance in the universe, the inevitable wins pool recap, green drink, growth mindsets, bet irresponsibly, Zion’s Shakespearean arc, Trae Young’s playoff relevance, missing 100% of the shots you take or don’t take, cho…

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 cooked, Arc’ing up, kitchen vibes vs humming metri…

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 America, Knicks positivity corner, Bucks negativity base…

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, why FOMO can FO, reaction dependency, mic-clipping…

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, teams that will be better at playoff basketball th…

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 legacy acts a bad name, Babylon tings, new country for…

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 ‘charlataneous’ a word, the West Big 3, the Raps’ ta…

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 EPS, who needs lyrics, necessary psychedelia, lists…

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 Manchester this year. Also: frontrunners versus lovable lose…

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, evangelical lyricism, enjoying the noises, release…

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 full tradies breakfast, last in first out, chasing G…

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 Zoo, Wellington Chats, tripping balls OnlyFans, the i…

This week: follow-on cowardice, sucking isn’t a tactic, Victorians doing it better, signs of great captaincy, fake World Cups, no means no, Beeso has Brisbane Olympics Fever™, ESPN shouty-show talking points, SOS signals, Man Citying your way to the #1, having one of those players, there's no (plan) B in Oston, bored in Milwaukee, Jokic vs everybod…

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 Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about…

This week: We fix the ‘we fix the NBA All Star Game’ podcasts, the Doc Rivers Pre-Apology Tour, Big NRL silences Beeso and our Massive Overreactions To One Game: Mid-Season Edition. Also: NBA quiet quitting, AFL All-Australian, 5001 Jokes for Kids, monologuing off, no-stakes injuries, Starry nights, entering the ‘finding out’ phase, Costco content,…

This week: new albums from Sigma, Courting and Wolves of Glendale. Also: the 2023-24 NBA trade deadline of new album weeks, obvious rips of boomer riffs, having a go and/or getting a go, Stock standard, Disco v2.000, blood feuds with autotune, Darkest Timeline Weird Al, trolling tin-chuckers at 4.30am, Tripod and Tenacious D, one sentence reviews, …

This week in sport: Cold transitions, Western melees, altitude problems, underwhelming fortnights, something to believe in, Mavs adds, MJ’s mates, mispronouncing Artūras Karnišovas, betting on the inevitable Boston bedwetting, a week off from Doc, a long rumination on whether today’s Spurs are capable of building a contender around Wemby, the Covid…

This week: brand new 2024 albums from SPRINTS, The Smile and Ty Segall. Also: new music evangelism, new occasional segment klaxon, investing in 2032 futures, season ten, takeaway food demarkation disputes, having a menty B, a few stars short of a supergroup, psychotic breakbeats, arrest Alex Turner, a land beyond songs, we all need unconditional su…

This week: Rotorua to Houston, Joel Embkneed, voodoo science, did the players really sign up to this, forty million American dollars, too cheap to be allowed to own a NBA team, dance monkey, having Haberstroh on retainer, getting shirty, root down, weird Jazz, don’t make Australasia’s most Knicks-positive NBA-adjacent podcast tap the sign, Minnesot…

This week: we draft our favourite albums of 1994, which is thirty years ago, allegedly. No we don't just pick Triple J's Hottest 100 Volume 2 ten times. Also mentioned in dispatches: admin, prequels, charts, soundtracks, JJJ going national, second-hand CDs, the Sanity at Toowong Village, busted Telstars, Fat Pizza, pretending you had a better taste…

This week: the NBA All-Star starters, the Bucks call for the Doc, Rivals Week, failed opening gambits, the Windies are back (?) and our accidental NFL conference finals preview. Also: Zero-day exploits, fan service, Cavs conundrums, #PRUNTYSZN, vibes-based regimes, if it’s not broke don’t break it, pallbearer dance routines, welcome to Indiana, the…

This week: we count down our top five albums of the year for 2023. Also: WAOTY, the importance of having clear number ones, #HammockSZN, necking cleanskin red and listening to 70s prog, crossover potential, voodoo science, aiming for competence, immaculate vibe-matches, the genre expects, they can’t keep getting away with this, the Scandiwegian-Str…

…And we’re back. This week: the Accidental Beeso Summer Tour, previously on The NBA, the Raptors rebuild, shop window games, play-in-pilled teams, the two seed with the vibes of a .500 team, the SLOB Wizard dodges the rozzers, the T-Wolves’ death run, the best in the West, contrarian ROY takes, this is the future Florentino Perez wants, the Dubs tr…

This week: Militarie Gun, NO CIGAR and Dallas Tamaira aka Joe Dukie of Fat Freddy’s. Also: bomb tracks, soft hardcore, genre skeletons, grading on a curve, getting your Troy Kingi on, wandering remixes, Spotify-era success stories, milquetoastsimpwave, measures of distance, beige smorgasbords, pen-throwing levels of crossness, chasin’ Statham, Wytc…

This week: Indefinite articles, Stern consequences, banner societies, cup runs, Denver’s soft landing, this is the end, next big Kerr-eer moves, AD’s statline that wasn’t, Dante’s inferno, feelings > stats, sorting-out games, stealing the ball, unexpected blood feuds, mid-season MJ mythology, sleepwalking into oblivion, all this Cavs gloom and we d…

This week: new albums from Spiritual Cramp, PinkPantheress and Busty and the Bass. Also: vanity musicals, wilted Lily, time dilation, pasty white continuums, KOMA FM, BPSI, what’s my motivation, [citation needed], homeopathy, an addendum, not sure how we missed this Pulled Apart By Horses joint last year, Joaquin-spec Jokers, friends of the show, p…

This week: getting punished in Port, the Tyrese Haliburton Show, 2.7 seconds or less, anti-Zionism, Reggie is mid, big stupid curvy arrows, Rusty spoilers, goose-strangling, running up the score, bad excuses for the Dubs’ downfall, Will Hardy reviews our podcast, the Celtics ain’t all that, Atlanta is unserious, when will Wemby win, Doc’s limited f…

This week: new albums from Tkay Maidza, Madness and Bully. Also: vaudeville sideshows, play the hits, the Sanity two-track test, Beeso vs modern Australian hiphop, call centre scripts, yeah well that’s just like your opinion man, have we ever sounded older than this? answers on a postcard, #WhitePeopleProblems, Albini Approved, assuaging your Spoti…

This week: Getting punished in Port, bringing back the clink, niche internet concerns, Magical thinking, excessive Pace, Spiderman meme teams separated by narrative, undercooked Nuggets, far-too-early MVP shouts, getting to Vegas, amateur cardiology, LeBron vs Jordan round 2, a November to remember in Detroit, winning < dunking on Walker Kessler, t…

This week: new albums from Black Pumas, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and The Scratch. Also: do the bit, trad sliders, the universality of the Khe Sahn punisher, angst and misery, saying the quiet part loud, the real Bolivian, Bocelli vs Kram, basing your entire review around one cheesy pun, backloaded goodness, emergency Georgie Parkers, EDM word asso…