I know I’ve probably posted one or two too many times about AFI and their latest record Silver Bleeds the Black Sun, but thats only because its really great. That they’re still releasing music videos this late into the album cycle must also indicate that its doing well for them too. The song is one of my favorites on the album, and the music video is artsy and weird. Love it. Love the 4:3 aspect ratio, too.
Bring Me The Horizon’s live show has just gotten better and better in the past few years. They’ve released a live show to 50,000 fans in Sao Paulo, and an accompanying DVD of the performance as well. I bought the DVD since I don’t think they made the file available to watch online. Its great, so if you’re on the fence – just buy it.
On the other hand: BMTH what are you doing? Just let me download the video for a fee.
DC’s super hero movies tend to be pretty hit-or-miss, but I’ll be damned if this one doesn’t look great. The Batman villain Clayface done as a body-horror film? Sign me up.
Some fun physics on a Lazy Sunday. Did you know Ice has many different physical solid states? We even recently found more!
I know I’ve previously let it be known that I generally like macOS 26, but boy is it hard to ignore how some of Apple’s own apps have degraded over the years. Look at Pages on OSX Lion. Its usable!
Saosin are back with Cove in the band. This new song rips – its great. I know this is a bit of a hot take, but the self-titled they did with Cove is the best thing this band has done. Looking forward to some new material
I wish I had more to say about this album. Its fun, but its just not great. Its been a while since there was a really great New Found Glory record. This band really could use some rejuvination from some co-writers, much like what A Day To Remember did on Big Ole Album vol. 1, or Blink-182 did with California. “Frankenstein’s Monster” is a good track, but perhaps a little too on-the-nose.
I’ve had a busy few months, so I haven’t had the time to get a few thoughts off my chest regarding Apple’s event in April announcing the MacBook Neo.
1) The name “Neo” is bad. They should have just called this “MacBook”. Lets hope this doesn’t propagate to other product lines.
2) This laptop really highlights how badly Intel missed mobile. Here we are, almost 20 years after the iPhone was released, and the technology in that device has now enveloped the Mac. Its a great time to be a Mac user, but Intel missing mobile was just catastrophic.
3) I can’t believe they didn’t include Force Touch. I suppose the iPad track pads haven’t been Force Touch, but its been a long time since they sold a Mac with a physically moving touch pad.
4) Apple embracing the modular nature of modern SoC packaging in the 2.5D architecture in the M5 Pro and Max is great. Hopefully we’ll start to see some new innovation in how the company designs their next generation of Apple Silicon.
5) I am sad that there wasn’t a new Apple TV. Come on Apple, please.
6) iPhone 17e is genuinely pretty good.
MKBHD did offer some suggestions for who this device is for in his video reviewing the product. I mostly agree with him, but I have to say a refurbished or on-sale MacBook Air continue to be a great deal too. He mentioned the Neo may be good for Grandparents, but the 15” Air is great for seniors with vision troubles, and the Force Touch pad isn’t just a nice-to-have – it also removes another physical moving part.
I few months ago I posted a lamentation on the end of LaunchPad on the Mac. I regret to say that 9 months later, the app launcher in Spotlight, which replaced LaunchPad in macOS 26, is still not anywhere as good as LaunchPad was, and its nice to see the kind folks at Macworld agree with me.
The Maine released their 10th record, Joy Next Door, a few weeks ago. Its another great record in their discography. “3:31″, and “It’s Not Over Yet” are two particular highlights for me. My one complaint about the record is that I don’t think its mixed well. This one would be a great candidate for a remastered version in 10 years.
Lastly, in the time since the album was released, the band added “Parking Garage Song #5” to the track list at number 8, subsequently pushing all the songs after it down the track listing. I really dislike it when bands do this. That is: change or edit the track listing after the album was released. This is distinct from releasing a “deluxe” version of the album with a few extra songs. Just off the top of my head, I know Blink–182 did this with ONE MORE TIME…, The 1975 just fully removed “Human Too” from Being Funny in a Foreign Language, and Every Time I Die and Chiodos have included “Bonus Tracks” embedded within the original track listing. This is all bad. Once its out, its out; pencils down! Bands, please stop doing this and just release a single or and EP or something.
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