tripping balls (a music podcast?)

This week’s new albums: Radio Free Alice | Alchemical Sisters | BODEGA Also: election night fireworks, honk honk, being sad in England in 1987, velcro fails, one for the heads, the problem with democracy, a preview of a review, ‘pivot to video’ can sit and pivot, terrible owners having a terrible time, constant states of shambles, the LA Lukas and the Giannis Antetokounmpo Factory of Sad.3:11  Radio Free Alice6:22  Alchemical Sisters11:20  BODEGA15:44  Next week’s albums 27:52  After Dark - NBA, mostlyNext week’s new albums: GRUB | Stimpies | Fake NamesSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: Michael Kiwanuka | The Schizophonics | Mother’s CakeAlso: resistance training, road rash, why are you here, glad to be here, this used to be a job, making good use of the things that we find, hanging palls, the RE, diverging directions, cooking with Floyd, Iggycore, serotonin delivery, hail to the Brewers, a happening, sticky specialists, relearning how to be yourself, shaken not chur’d, the two genders of Melbourne bands, reanimating zombie genres, proof of life, A RIOT!, trust issues, legacy slopwatch, words have meanings, correctly predicted collapses, the Tony Greig role, win the toss and Nasser, the triumphant return of the Contractually Obligated Shoresy Reference, a lineup entirely constituted of number fives and wicketkeepers, sounding like morons, Ralf Rangnick erasure and backdating the Man City hearings. 0:28  Preamble: old bodies heal slowly9:56  Michael Kiwanuka15:34  The Schizophonics18:28  Mother’s Cake23:00  Next week’s albums 36:56  After Dark - Test cricket, Manchester football clubsNext week’s new albums: Radio Free Alice | BODEGA | Alchemical SistersSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom MorelloAlso: excitable dunkers, Richie Benaud colour charts, aggressively boring, 2026 Beeso [handshake emoji] 1997 Roy Keane, making handgrenades somehow worse, the only boring road trip in New Zealand, ‘The Beach’ of albums, lefty boomer doomscrolling, action hero jousting dude, using your voice in public, bring back Dopamine Week, get your blood pressure checked, understanding indie, noone likes winning with fragile batting, nostalgia is built out of confirmation bias, sending the heavies round and atmospheric noises are atmospheric.1:02  Dunedin-via-Auckland indie band Office Dog 6:34  90s alternative supergroup Bring The Sea9:42  Tom Morello and friends doing Tom Morello things16:33  Next week’s albums 23:36  After Dark - Test cricket, thunder (not OKC)Next week’s new albums: MIchael Kiwanuka | the Schizophonics | Mother’s CakeSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums: Action Bronson | C.O.F.F.I.N | Chase & StatusAlso: get in the sea bin, keep out of reach of children, like and subscribe, beaten by cosplayers, geographical confusion, both kinds of loud, vocal production, sad bloke on a run of outs areas, Giants of Science timetravel, Postman Pat pyrotechnics, what the world needs now, it’s the children who are wrong, no longer chasin’ status, Gen X supergroups, jokertastic noodling, early AOTY research, obvious comic devices, fluid orders, losing Bathurst, losing technology, Qatar vs Abu Dhabi and overreaction season.1:59  Action Bronson 5:28  C.O.F.F.I.N 12:36  Chase & Status19:44  Next week’s albums 28:48  After Dark - Test cricket, motorsport, City-PSGNext week’s new albums: Office Dog | Drink The Sea | Tom MorelloSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

It’s EP Week! A tapas platter of new music from Night Swimming, Karen Dió, 16 Underground, The Gnomes, Sherif Boi & Tomahawk, Sonic Reducer, Public Figures, MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi, 7Horse and horse (no relation)Also: live Bledisloe updates, Bath/Bath, mansplaining Bandsplain, context and intent, dolphin cruises, trust your first instinct, straight pimpin’, fresh finds, fantasy booking Recovery in 1998, versions of not-new that don’t sound old, Much Worse Bunny, Patton pending, indie sleaze, the ghost of the Ghost of Frankie Cesar, probbo checks, this content is not available in your territory, horse_ebooks, minimum viable bands, fried chicken, the man from the memes, the parmesan toast of music, blatant disrespect, Head’s come off, a third of the way through Renshaw’s knock, caping for City, spoiled by success, the British Brayshaw, Bron’s bucks and basketball bubbles.2:45  Night Swimming9:01  Karen Dió10:56 16 Underground13:10 The Gnomes15:39  Sherif Boi/Tomahawk   16:57  Sonic Reducer vs Public Figures21:02  MOKOMOKAI/Troy Kingi23:51  7Horse vs horse25:55  Next week’s albums 33:06  After Dark - test cricket, City vs the Clippers, Matt Burke?Next week’s new albums: Chase & Status | C.O.F.F.I.N. | Action BronsonSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A HolidayAlso: the two true paths of covers, recycled grease, Karens and Sharons, column compendiums, gas-powered internet, dreich in full effech, misled by first impressions, missing the deadline, the next good Karen, it’s ten louder, C’s get degrees, being bad at time maths, the sandpapergate reunion special, Zaltzman v Davey Dum Dum, schtick replacing insight, blaming Six N Out, post-game previews of pre-game performances, the city that always sleeps, jumper punches are dumb as hell, some remarkably prescient AFL GF preview chat which doesn’t require any edit shed updates (you’re welcome) and stupid World Cup schedule clashes.1:11  Satan Takes A Holiday   8:16  Team Dresch14:58  Ty Segall17:17  Next week’s albums 27:24  After Dark - cricket, AFL GF, CWC v RWCNext week: it’s EP Week! Short sharp sounds from Night Swimming, Karen Dió, 16 Underground, The Gnomes, Sherif Boi & Tomahawk, Sonic Reducer, Public Figures, MOKOMOKAI & Troy Kingi, 7Horse and horse (no relation)Spotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  Mike D | Headie One | AirbourneAlso: 2026 exceptionallism, brutalist flats, equilibrium opprobrium, saving graces, why are you doing this to people who care about you, song title nominative determinism, MCAI, context-specific albums, doing 7 AFL’s job for them, beer isn’t a food group, raised on Hasselhoff and Scorpions, genre of origin stickers, Jason Status, ornithology, arcane bylaws, EP week,  Bills-Lions, NFL’s greatest names, some surprisingly well aged AFL chat, the Clippers’ remaining tools, don’t Walter yourself, don’t Hyrox yourself, healthmaxxbros ruin everything and getting croc’y in Rocky.  1:23  Headie One   4:22  Mike D 10:28  Airbourne15:06  Next week’s albums 23:04  After Dark - NFL, AFL, NBA, Hyrox vs Crossfit, Olympic rowing venuesNext week’s new albums:  Team Dresch | Ty Segall | Satan Takes A HolidaySpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor HoneymoonAlso: Blow up your video, schmedium fits, improvement items, acts of rebellion, open with your best stuff, pushing against the sugar, casuals and randoms, dropping entire loaves of bread, geometric means, on the nose, Air Ben Stillers, podcast samples, VENOM VENOM VENOM VENOM, icy cold cans of Coke, it’s a trap, factcheck: technically we just DID some UK hiphop, sweaty bogans from Warrnambool, second generation slopwatch, from in Sault to injury, guiltless Beesoings, the wrong Robert Smith, squared circles, getting patronised by NFL touchies, the unbackable Super Bowl favourites are completely derailed by a midweek flight to Melbourne, #MCGSoBig, draft dodging, who does number 2 work for and the worst gig in world cricket.1:32  Grandma’s House   4:32  Sailor Honeymoon 9:31  CZARFACE & Frankie Pulitzer19:13  Next week’s albums 28:10  After Dark - NFL in Melbourne, F1, cricket, subcontinental politicsNext week’s new albums:  Headie One | Airbourne | Mike DSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new music:  Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at ABAlso: Beeso sings country classics, Glengarry Glenn Ridge, point/counterpoint, dinosaur extinction, ADHD medication, Kram-Janet hybrids, professors of neurobiology, the guy who curates Doc's Release Radar, slow jams, rogue geologists, seal of approval, day jobs, Wu-Tang name generators, doing the acting on the Hollywoods, ESL jokes, summer’s over, an interesting ten minutes, ESPN gets played, unironic welcomes-back, outside the tent, Pablo starts in on TWG, burial at sea, writing down a criminal conspiracy, transfer inefficiencies, first days at work, Movistar ascents and team evolutions. 1:07  Wolves of Glendale   4:42  Wine Lips 9:42  Dead Meadow13:37  Kruder & Dorfmeister live at the Ancienne Belgique, 202316:30  Next week’s albums 35:15 After Dark - NBA salary hat shenanigans, football transfers, la Vuelta, F1Next week’s new albums:  CZARFACE meets Frankie Pulitzer | Grandma’s House | Sailor HoneymoonSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email

This week’s new albums:  Getdown Services | Stepmother | Dead MeadowAlso: Coup de tarts, rescue dog metaphors, dubstep elevator music, wet sounds, narrative side quests, the Wil Anderson Appreciation Hour, NCIS all the things, panel shows, Birdman karaoke, a parody of a pastiche of a joke, not that sort of filth, we’re gonna need a bigger shirt, Edge cases, preeminent rock powerhouses, where is Victor Anichebe’s social media manager :(((, the Joe Ingles spot, ADHD nonsense, one-joke Americans, massacring Belgian placenames, DMCA dodging, knowing how many skips to skip, tyre squirt, five star reviews, French manure interruptions, rickrolling your children with Carabao Cup highlights, reset the counter and bubbles that need bursting.3:32  Getdown Services   11:47  Stepmother  16:00  Dead Meadow18:35  Next week’s albums 35:18 After Dark - podcasting, F1, cycling, football, sports ownershipNext week’s new music:  Alabama Shakes | Wine Lips | Wolves of Glendale | K&D Live at ABSpotify playlists: Album review playlist | Doc's and Beeso’s 2026 mixtapes | All our playlistsThe list: Our previous review albums and year-end top fivesFind us on: Spotify Podcasts | Apple Podcasts | RSS feed for other appsSocials: Beeso on Bluesky | Doc on BlueSky | Pod Facebook | Pod email