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Music Notes: AFI – Silver Bleeds the Black Sun

First, I love the title and the cover art. Basically any reference to "black sun" gets me, because as a teenager I loved Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun, and one of my favourite books was Black Sun Rising by C.S. Friedman...

So there's some aspect of nostalgia there. And, indeed …

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🔖 Music Log: Teddy Swims 🔗

I just came across musician Teddy Swims, from hearing Lose Control in a hair salon and looking him up. I just listened to his album I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1.5)1 and I love it.

Sound reminds me of discovering Gnarls Barkley2 and Fitz and the Tantrums 15 years ago. Will probably buy a copy of the album—I'm trying to do that more these days instead of streaming.


  1. Top marks for both title and semantic versioning scheme. 😂 

  2. Gnarls Barkley's website doesn't seem to resolve when I tried it, and looking at the Wayback Machine, seems like it's just been a redirect to Spotify in recent years. 🫤 But check out this version from 2009, it's pretty cool.