Tonight Is For Our Ghosts!

Track: Ghosts

Artist: Mike Shinoda
Album: Post Traumatic

Year: 2018

Genre: Hip Hop

Sometimes you just need a fun song in your life. Maybe after a long Friday at work, or maybe to wake you up smiling on a Monday. Maybe when you're a little sad, maybe when you are having fun with your friends.

That's where 'Ghosts' comes in. It is impossible to not bob your head to the beat, or even begin to dance, I daresay. It has a vocal progression that is as old as music itself, and a bridge pattern that has been raided, exploited & plundered in Pop music. There is not a lot of new information for our brains to process in terms of instrumentation or lyrics, which makes it one of the best songs to be just a soundtrack to your life.

And the video makes it better! It features Boris & Miss Oatmeal, sock puppets controlled by Mike and his wife Anna. The animation is created entirely by Mike. What a genius! If it wasn't enough to compose 16 new songs and perform all the instruments on them.

Kick off the 2018 summer in style by adding this track to your commute & pool party playlists, and thank me later. Stay hydrated!

Hold on, hold on! We're barely alive

Track: Torn In Two

Artist: Breaking Benjamin
Album: Ember

Year: 2018

Genre: Hard Rock




Well, let's not pretend. Ember was every inch the quintessential Breaking Benjamin record. We've all heard those progressions, vocal tricks and heavy riffs before. But hey, I guess if that's what the diehards want, who am I to complain?

Though nothing revolutionary, this album has several massive sounding anthems like Red Cold River, Feed The Wolf & Blood, and the ballad, Dark Of You. But I really recommend the track that should be auto-playing on this page now, if everything is working the way it should. Hah!

It has the signature BB sound, but it has a distinctive flavor of its own- the vocal harmonies, the rare two-part guitar riff that breaks up the monotony and the heavy as s#!t outro with the double bass pounding. Good times!

And as they keep telling us fans through social media, let's show the world that Rock is not dead.