Probably! The boys haven't made any acknowledgement of it yet tho!

Ototoy – the Japanese music store – posted the song on Tues 18th, the link started being shared around Gizz fans early morning Fri 21st (Naarm time), then pretty soon after it got pulled.

When the website was still live you needed to be located in Japan to buy it (or use a VPN) so some people skipped on it, not realising it was a mistake and expecting a European/USA release when it became Friday there. Oops.

Speculating wildly, p(doom) has probably been uploading it to different music services in advance of its release date, but either Ototoy or the uploader messed up and it went public early on their site.

Hopefully the band just release it next Friday. It's a great song!

I'm just gonna leave this here

I remember posting this and thinking that surely that couldn't be right, surely they wouldn't only play Deni, surely they'd do something in Naarm...

...but yeah, 2024, the first year Gizz didn't play a show in Melbourne in their entire existence.

Be free.

Just like how everyone has an accent. (Especially the people who think they don’t.)

Such a disingenuous headline. The article outlines how pre-2012 Mac can’t support Metal, which breaks a bunch of stuff.

An aside: A few years ago, I used OCLP to install Monterey on my old (Early 2013) MacBook Pro 13”. It was fine, until one day it just stopped booting. It wasn’t hardware: Wiped it, reinstalled Catalina, still worked fine. It’s a fun toy to play with, but I wouldn’t want to be depending on it for anything important.

Recorded by Stu in the King Gizz rehearsal studio by the Merri Creek in January 2023. Studio setup by recording engineers Nico Wilson and Laura Hancock

Overdubs recorded in green rooms, hotels, airports and busses in France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Poland, Czechia, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, England, Australia and the USA between March and July, 2023

Mixed by Stu at Newmarket Studios in North Melbourne with the help of recording engineer Guus Hoevenaars. Two sessions: one in May and another in July 2023

Mastered by Joseph Carra in July 2023

Produced by Stu Mackenzie

Cover photography, design and layout as well as sunglasses design by Jason Galea

Sunglasses on the cover handcrafted by Radio Eyewear

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Amby: Vocals / Yamaha DX7 / Moog Grandmother / Mellotron / Roland JX-3P

Cavs: Simmons Drum Synthesiser / Roland TD50X

Cookie: Roland Juno-X / Korg Poly-61 / Casio DG-10 / Yamaha DX7 / Boss DD-7 / EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine / Strymon BlueSky

Joey: Vocals / Roland rc-505 / Arturia Keystep Pro / Roland TR-8 / Mutable Instruments Plaits / Intellijel Quadrax / Happy Nerding FX Aid / Intellijel Metropolis / Befaco Hexmix / Intellijel Bifold / Make Noise Mimeophon / Make Noise Maths / Mutable Instruments Rings / Doepfer A-182-1 Switched Multiples / WMD Geiger Counter / Intellijel Quad VCA / ALM Pamela’s New Workout / Joranalogue Filter 8 / Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter / Music Thing Turing Machine / Eowave Quadrantid Swarm / XAOC Devices Belgrad Dual Peak Filter / Mutable Instruments Ripples / Instruo Cs-L Complex Oscillator

Lukey: Moog Matriarch / Moog Sub 37 / Yamaha Reface DX / Roland SH-01A

Stu: Vocals / Roland Juno-60 / Casio SK-5 / Casio DG-1 / Ableton Push 2 / Mellotron / Moog Matriarch / Roland Juno-X / Roland TR-808 / Piano / Boss ME-50 / Boss DD-3 / EarthQuaker Devices Rainbow Machine / Strymon BlueSky / Dunlop Cry Baby

Album of the year

89 minutes!

Theia / The Silver Cord / Set Goes live in about 9 hours and 20 minutes! 10pm Melbourne time (UTC+11)

Edit: Oh, there are lyrics on the YouTube page already!

Edit again: So many timezone problems (we went daylight savings in Melb over the weekend). 11pm Melbourne time. 90 mins away!

(I’m not linking to Twitter, and it’s a shame they only dropped the news there.)

I sure hope they’re videos for The Silver Cord tracks, but they might still have some PDA in the tank…

This doesn't really help, but it's not just you.

Edit: Oh, wait, this article is specifically about USB-C chargers. Still odd yours isn't working with USB-A!

It’s not a feature, but it’s by design.

Ah, sexism is alive and well in tech.

Oh, and the magazine is Musikexpress. Apparently it was listed on Musikexpress’ website briefly too. It would make sense they had embargoed info so it could make it to print.

We’ll soon find out! I don’t want to turn this place into a rumour mill, but this all feels true!

I’m confident it’s real, which is why I posted it. If I’m wrong then I’m a fool. It feels legit though!

That magazine page seems real, the rest of the info on the page is real, other info (like the track list) has leaked too, so the album seems to be close. Oh, and the name just feels right.

The band just got on board the hype train, so I reckon we’ll know for sure soon!

Sure, but the gaming situation is no worse than before the Apple silicon switch. You mentioned a reduced software library, but Rosetta 2 can run pretty much any Intel-only app at speeds comparable (or faster) to the last-gen of Intel Macs. This isn’t like the transition in 2005!

Besides, we’re three years into the switch, almost all non-game apps are Universal now.

A Mac is never going to be the greatest gaming machine, but an M-series MacBook is still preferable to an Intel one. For instance, Civ VI via Rosetta runs better on my M1 MacBook Pro than it did on my previous i7.

Safari on iOS supports extensions. Chrome on Android does not. But hey, keep telling yourself that Google are better than Apple at this.

Brave is awful.