The Skinny with Mike and Adam

We've reached the end of 2023! What better way to celebrate than by reflecting on all of the music and albums that we've listened to, reviewed, and celebrated over the past year! In our part one of our three-part series, we share and discuss our Honorable Mentions - the albums that just missed our Top 10 list this year. These are our albums that landed in our Top 20 to 11 of 20232! #ChrisF...

This is our last 'regular' episode of The Skinny for 2023 before our year-end celebration in December and we're taking the time to reflect on another year in our lives. Lots of ups and downs, disappointments and triumphs were sprinkled throughout and Adam and Mike shared with one another and with our audience what the year-to-date was like for them. Additionally, we go over the tentati...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got four great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for these m...

We’re simple men here at The Skinny with Mike and Adam…we see an album written by Brian Fallon and/or The Gaslight Anthem, we listen to it! Nine years since their last full-length, The Gaslight Anthem are BACK with their sixth record, ‘History Books’. Listen along with Adam and Mike to discuss and digest the lyrical themes about reminiscing of the men we once were, leaving the pain of our past beh...

Howdy, partn’rs! We’re glad you cowpokes could join us for a rare country music album review here on the show! Lately, Adam has been falling hard for Zach Bryan’s discography thanks in part to a recommendation from a friend of the show. So we’re listening along to his most recent album which was released this past August to help discuss our thoughts on it. We hope you’ll enjoy! Also on the episode...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got four great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show! Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for these m...

On this episode, we’re catching up with another album worth discussing in more detail that was released while we were away for a few months. The follow-up to one of our favorite albums of 2021, ‘The Noble Art of Self-Destruction’ by Holding Absence. Are the band continuing their upward trajectory with their album quality? Or are they reverting back to the same band that forced Mike to write a lett...

On this episode, we catch up with one of the albums that we missed discussing while we were away. The highly anticipated ‘Suicide and Sunshine’ by Trophy Eyes. Is this the return to form from that band that many listeners have been waiting for? Listen along with us on our track-by-track review! Also discussed, our thoughts on albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Hawthorne Heights, Chris Farren and U2 #Trop...

After a few months away, Mike and Adam are back for the first of - hopefully - many regularly scheduled episodes of The Skinny! We take this time to talk a little bit about why the show has been away for a while, catch up a bit with one another, and check in with the music that we’ve missed discussing in the weeks we’ve been gone. We discuss our brief thoughts on a handful of albums from bands and...

The Skinny with Mike and Adam will be going on hiatus for health-related reasons until further notice. Please stay subscribed to the channel wherever you find our show! We thank you for your patience and your understanding during this time. Try out The Dorkiest Podcast! - http://anchor.fm/thedorkiestpodcast ---------------------------------- Find us on social media: h ttps://discord.gg/2jv87Wypvw...

We’ve reached the halfway point of 2023, so Adam and Mike go through the mid-year review for The Skinny! We check it with the album draft picks and the bets and see if there have been any exciting new developments so far. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Foo Fighters, Rob Thomas, The Anix, and Taylor Swift. ---------------------------------- Find us on social...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This month, we’ve got five great nominees thanks in part to some of our listeners and friends of the show. Please continue to stay subscribed to the show as we will continue to share our love for these m...

Welcome to the first ever episode of The Sleepy with Mike and Adam! Today, we’ll be doing a track-by-track review of the fascinating new album by Sleep Token, ‘Take Me Back To Eden’. We try to interpret the song meanings based on our admittedly intermediate (at best) knowledge of the performance art project that is this band. We make it no secret that we both think this is one of the strongest alb...

After a couple of weeks off for travel and holidays, The Skinny with Mike and Adam catches up with one another and talks about the music that they’ve been listening to so far in the month of May. We share our thoughts on albums from artists like Crown The Empire, Dave Hause, grandson, The Smashing Pumpkins, girlfriends, Hot Mulligan, Ghost, Sleep Token, The Receiving End of Sirens, and Taylor Swif...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This week, it’s a roller coaster of heavy songs and lyrically heavy songs as we go back and forth between four songs that couldn’t be more different with their energy levels. Please continue to stay subs...

Less of a REVIEW and more of a CELEBRATION of the 10 year anniversary of this seminal album that changed the trajectory of the music scene! Adam and Mike go track-by-track with this masterpiece and talk about their memories of first listening to the band and how this album fits into their music tastes now ten years later.  Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like The...

Our track-by-track breakdowns are back for 2023 and we’re checking out the highly anticipated album from one of our favorite current artists, nothing,nowhere. Does this latest effort continue to push the envelope in genre blending? Or has this brand of hip-hop meets MySpace screamo worn out its welcome? Listen along with us in our review of VOID ETERNAL by nothing,nowhere. Also on the episode, we...

Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of all-time favorites in search of The Greatest Song In The World! This week, the submissions are all hitting heavy as the songs that were submitted come from some of the submitter’s favorite bands and in one instance one person’s favorite song of all-time!  Please cont...

We’re back with ROUND 2 of our inaugural new segment ‘SETTLE IT!’ in which we dissect and debate once and for all which album from an artist is better than the other! Hopefully you heard the first part of this fight on the previous episode and we’re back with this counterpoint and we hope that YOU, the audience, will decide for yourselves which album you think is better in your own heart! We hope...

Inspired by a HEATED DEBATE over on our Discord (linked below if you’d like to join us), we’re introducing a new segment on The Skinny in which we settle the score once and for all, which album from an artist we love is OBJECTIVELY the best one! And of course, to kick this off, we’ve got to re-visit the debut solo album from our favorite song-writer and pit that between his follow-up sophomore alb...

For more than 20 years now, Story of the Year has been making the rounds and writing some of the most infectious songs in the music scene. And to us, they’ve sort of been a bit of a bridge between the emo rock movement of the 00s and mainstream alternative rock. They’ve definitely had their moment in the sun, but they’ve been consistently releasing music for more than two decades now, which brings...

It's time for us to revisit the ever-growing list, The Greatest Song In The World! On this month's submissions, both Adam and Mike submit anthemic rock operas that could tear down stadiums with just the powers of their oozing charisma and emotional resonance alone! And not only that, but we share two songs submitted by our listeners - one is a fun look back at jovial post-hardcore music from the l...

In the wake of Mike’s recent victory in the 2022 Skinny Draft, Adam’s loss meant that he had to write and record a song about how awesome Mike is! Well, the time has come and the checkbook must be balanced because Adam has paid up…WITH INTEREST! Adam and Mike share not one, not two, but three parody songs that celebrate Mike’s life. We hope that you enjoy this as much as Mike did! Also on the epis...

Production note: Apologies in advance for the noticeable difference in audio quality on this episode. Mike’s usual microphone was not working correctly, so he was recording on a headset. We are looking to resolve the issue so it shouldn’t happen going forward. Thank you for your understanding. It's time for us to revisit the ever-growing list, The Greatest Song In The World! On this month's submis...

It's that time once again for the greatest sporting event of the year...the Skinny Draft Special for the 2023 season! Just like we did last year, we are 'drafting' bands to release new music this calendar year to come out on top with the highest score! And of course, just like the last couple years, we're opening up the draft to our listeners as well! So find out how you can win a prize just like...