The Skinny with Mike and Adam

It's our final episode of the year, so what better way to celebrate than to share our Best Albums of 2018! These are the albums we listened to that will stay with us beyond this calendar year. They are the ones that surpassed our expectations and the ones that we will HIGHLY recommend to anyone looking to listen to some great music! Thank you for celebrating this year in music with us for the past...

In this week's end of the year music celebration, we talk about the albums that let us down, the albums that we hated, and the albums that failed to meet our (sometimes unreasonable) expectations - it's our Most Disappointing Albums of 2018! Did you listen to any albums this year that disappointed you or just flat out hated? Please feel free to  share your thoughts .

Surprise, everyone! I've got a very special and very different episode of The Skinny with a very special guest this week. Mike sits down with his wife-to-be, Erika, to talk about their favorite games from 2018 (and some from years past). Mike doesn't always get to talk about his other passion - games - so he's excited to get the chance to discuss his OTHER favorite hobby with someone who also has...

We're doing one more regular, fun, and casual episode before we celebrate the end-of-the-year with our Top Albums specials. This week, we catch each other up on how we've been doing since we last saw each other and we discuss some fun music topics like new upcoming albums from AFI, The Fever 333, and Polyenso; we get a good chuckle out of the recent drama involving Bad Omens and font sizes; we sha...

Welcome back to another episode of The Skinny, everyone! This week, we review the newest album by one of our new favorite bands, mewithoutYou, called [untitled]; we catch up with one another about the exciting new developments in our lives; we congratulate Cory Wells on getting signed to Pure Noise Records; we go over all of our bets for this year and prematurely call a winner; and finally, we bri...

Thrice's comeback record, 'To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere', from 2016 was one of our Top 10 albums of that year. Naturally, the announcement of their newest album got us very excited and hyped for that follow-up from one of our favorite bands. How does Palms stack up in our eyes? Where does it rank among Thrice's varied and interesting discography? Find out in our track-by-track review! Also di...

Australia's #1 export, The Amity Affliction, recently released their highly anticipated follow up to 2016's 'This Could Be Heartbreak'. With our disappointing feelings on that album, we were both really nervous and excited with this new album that goes in a new musical direction. Is the band successful in this new endeavor? Does this put TAA back on our radar? Find out our thoughts in our track-by...

Strap yourselves in and get comfy because we've got a special episode of The Skinny for you this week! Mike sits down with his friend, Dave, from the podcast Ian Hates Music, to discuss his recently finished Top 100 Albums List.  After we finished our own personal Top 100 lists last year, we've had the pleasure of being sent a few personal lists from our listeners and fans of the show. Some of the...

We managed to sneak away from our responsibilities this week just to spend some quality with one another - which means through podcast proxy, quality time with YOU too! Coincidentally, Mike shares with Adam some evidence that we're 99% sure is related to the new music from Bring Me The Horizon! Also this week, our friend, Dave, is completing his Top 100 Albums list and challenged us to guess 10 of...

  It's been a little while since we've said words into a microphone for the amusement of our friends, but here we are, doing it again! This week, on our way to Petco Park in San Diego to watch the Cubs and the Padres game, we talk about the big events and new chapters in our lives that have happened in the last six weeks including the newest addition to Adam's family, his second daughter, and Mike...

With this final weekly episode of our podcast, we bring this chapter of our lives to a close. It's been an incredibly fun six years of doing this show together and we take the time to reminisce a bit, take a trip down memory lane and talk about why we started the show, how the show evolved, and the bitter-sweet feeling of it ending when we've hit some popularity. We also read some good-bye message...

As we close this chapter on our long running show - six years strong - we celebrate this second to last weekly episode with what we're going to call our Skinny Essentials. We discuss in full detail the albums that we feel best represent us as people and the life experiences that we've gone through. For this week, we go track-by-track, in full, and talk about an album that means a lot to Mike; an a...

In lieu of doing a track by track review of 'Violent Noise' by The Word Alive - which is what we originally had intended to do this week - we decided to spare you all the trouble and just give our very brief thoughts on it instead. So, in an effort to continue our public service to the entertainment industry, we decided to release yet another Do Not Play List episode for this week! A lot is discus...

Hawthorne Heights is a band that we both really enjoy for their ever infectious melodies, their meaningful concepts, and for their overall great sound. The band has been around for more than 14 years now and they just released their sixth full-length record titled 'Bad Frequencies'. How does this album stack up to their back catalog? Is it an album that needs to be played on full volume outside of...

A long, long time ago, we did a couple of episodes that we called our "Do Not Play Lists" in which we officially retire songs that have infiltrated every aspect of our lives - like at the grocery stores, in commercials, in movie trailers, and every other art form. Well, it's time that we as a society move on from these tracks and we think we're properly qualified to give these songs a proper send...

With such a busy month of April, that can only mean we've got another great track-by-track review episode. This time, we've got the follow-up to our #5 best album of 2017 just five months after that album was released. With "ruiner", we got really excited and set our expectations pretty high because of how much we were surprised by 'Reaper'. Are we going to reserve a spot in our Best Albums list?...

We're back this week with another big review with a long awaited follow-up to one of our favorite albums from 2015 and the sixth album from The Wonder Years, "Sister Cities". Their previous album 'No Closer To Heaven' had some of the best songs released in that year with some hard hitting and emotionally impactful lyrics. Does the band follow suite with this new release? Find out what we thought o...

This week, the music scene was gifted by the first Underoath album in eight years with 'Erase Me'. With an album of this magnitude, we brought in the help of our friend and fellow podcast co-host, Dave, from the great music review show, Ian Hates Music. Does Erase Me live up to the expectations set by the band's previous records? Or was the hype for it a little bit over inflated? We've got some ve...

We slow it down a bit for this week's episode. We take a break from track-by-track reviews and scene music news to discuss something we don't always go into detail about...ourselves. This week, we do an episode of The Skinny...Nights and have a nice sit-down and chat about the happenings of our recent lives; such as Adam going into more detail about his growing family and the reasons why our show...

**PRODUCTION NOTE: Apologies in advance; during post-production I discovered that the microphone that Mike was using was cutting in and out a few times throughout the first half of the episode. We still want to put out this episode, so we hope that you'll bear with the audio issues just for this week. Thank you for your understanding.** This week, we review the sixth album from the always exciting...

On this week's special episode, we're honored to be joined by Matt, who plays guitar in the band The Horizon Line. Their debut album, 'Survivors', is a recent favorite of mine, so I was very excited to get a chance to talk a member of the band and learn how the band got started, what the recording process was like, where the band sees themselves going forward, and much more. And closing out the ep...

In a very special episode this week, Adam and Mike are, again, granted a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet a famous fictional time-traveler to positively affect the past. So what better way to take advantage of this theoretical technology than by sharing our lists for our Best Albums of 2011! Find out what the smarter and wiser Mike and Adam from the future say are the best albums from before...

Closing out the busy February release window, we do a track-by-track review of the third album from the controversial band, Slaves. Despite the real world issues and scandals that surround the lead singer, we've always enjoyed his past musical endeavors. Does this new album make us want to sniff permanent markers or does it get us high but in a great, musical way? Check out this week's episode to...

Senses Fail is a band that means a lot to half of the hosts of this show. So when new music comes out, it instantly becomes a big deal to us! This week, we review 'If There Is Light, It Will Find You' by Senses Fail; the band's seventh full length album as well as a musical return-to-form for the band. Does it Carry The Weight of the magic that brought them to superstardom more than ten years ago?...

In this stacked month of new album releases, we do a track-by-track review of a highly anticipated and long awaited record, "Crooked Shadows" by Dashboard Confessional. It's been nine years since their last album, which is an album that we both hold in high regard, so how does this new album stack up? Has it Stolen our hearts or will we be Vindicated in our disappointment? Also on the show this we...