The Skinny with Mike and Adam

As per tradition in the times of yore, when a man loses a Skinny Betting Special, a man must payeth up. That's right, this week, Adam is cashing in his debt to the betting gods while we watch along together on one of our favorite movies, The Cable Guy from 1996 - starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. You can either watch along with us with a non-movie audio version or simply listen to th...

On this week's episode, we're recording on Super Bowl Sunday in order to discuss, track-by-track, the new EP from Landon Tewers, 'Frontal Lobe Submissions'. Also discussed this week, it's been a pretty big week for new album announcements, shadow-drops, and new band signings from Velocity Records; and we share our thoughts on album we've been listening to from Erra, I See Stars, Conan Gray, Guccih...

Adam and Mike have been music fans for pretty much their whole lives. And while we like to talk about a lot of the new music from the scene and beyond, this week we're going all the way back to the years that we were born and sharing with each other The Best Songs of 1980 & 1986! Man, the 80s was certainly a decade, wasn't it?! 😅 Also on the show this week, Adam's stories from his mini-vacati...

On this week's episode, while we await a few big name albums that are coming up, we get excited about some more big album announcements from bands like Royal Blood and Underoath; one of Bring Me The Horizon's hit singles from 2013 has suddenly hit the Viral Top 50 of Spotify for reasons that make us feel old; we've got our initial preview thoughts on the upcoming album from Architects; we're shari...

It's that time once again for the greatest sporting event of the year...the Skinny Draft Special for the 2021 season! Just like we did last year, we are 'drafting' albums to release this calendar year to come out on top with the highest score with the help of the iTunes User Rating. And of course, just like last year, we're opening up the draft to our listeners as well! So find out how you can win...

On this week's special mini-episode, we give the spotlight to a few great, unique, diverse bands who reached out to the show over the past couple of months while we were going through our end-of-the-year wrap up episodes. We think these bands are worth sharing with you guys and we hope that you'll go on and check out more of their music after listening to this week's episode. Links to the band's s...

**Here's a link to our Part 1 - 12 to 7 - picks of the year** With 2020 FINALLY behind us - for realsies this time - we release the second part of our Best Songs list! This week, we share the best of the best with our tracks 6 to 1! Let us know what you thought of our lists over on our social media pages and tell us what some of YOUR favorite songs of the year are as well. https://discord.gg/2jv87...

It's our final episode of the year, so what better way to celebrate than to share our Best Albums of 2020! 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 our part two of our three part 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 and Worst Albums of 2020! Did you listen to any albums this year that disappointed you or just flat out hated? Please feel free to share your thoughts. Fin...

We've reached the end of 2020! 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 2020! #Bilmuri #Colour...

On our final regular episode of the year before we celebrate the albums of 2020, we look back at one of Adam's favorite albums of all time, 'Badmotorfinger' by Soundgarden. Fronted by one of rock's best vocalists and front-men of our time, Chris Cornell, we gush about this incredible album that showcases everything that Chris made look so effortless. We hope you enjoy going back the beginning of t...

With the end of the year right around the corner, we take this opportunity this week to have a bit of a reminisce of this year unlike any other - 2020. The music industry changed, the entertainment industry changed, and for most people, everyday life changed. So before we "celebrate" the year that was with our upcoming Albums of the Year discussions, we reflect on the past 11 months (Or has it bee...

What an insane  last four years week it's been here in the United States, eh?! We just got through a pretty historical Presidential Election here in this country and as two people who - although identify on the sidelines and the fringes of American political system - still have some pretty complex thoughts and questions about the mess our country has been in for a while. So we set some time a...

Post Human is NOW! Bring Me The Horizon are back with the first part of their multi-EP project, Post Human: Survival Horror. After the divisive 2019 'amo', all eyes are on this band to see what direction they might zig or zag to. With an admittedly much heavier album this time around, both musically and contextually, do we think this is an attempt to recapture their former fame or is this yet anot...

In what turned out to be a huge week for music news and music reviews, we've got a honker of an episode for you all this week! Not only were there a pleathera of upcoming album announcements this past week that got us excited, we also, altogether, listened to more than a dozen new albums too! On the news front, we discuss the details that have been gathered on the sudden announcement of Attack Att...

We're back from a short week off to bring you a very special episode of The Skinny today in which we dive in and get a little bit more personal than we usually do. The last two weeks were pretty special for the both of us and to celebrate, we play a game of 20 Questions and we get to know each other a little bit more than we already do - which is saying something because we've been best friends fo...

Here's a head scratcher of an album review for you all! No, you read that correctly, on this week's episode, we'll be tackling the album that released at the peak of Limp Bizkit's popularity in the year 2000. Now don't get us wrong, the purpose of this review isn't to make fun of it or talk about how much better we are as music fans for not liking it, this album was one of Mike's guilty pleasure a...

So  guilty...but it feels SOO GOOD! In this week's episode of The Skinny  Seconds, we return to a segment from 2017 in which we share with one  another and our audience for the first time, our top guilty pleasures in  music! What do the Backstreet Boys, Dr. Dre, and the movie Space Jam  have in common?! Well, check out this segment from one of our favorite  episodes t...

One  thing that we enjoy are harsh negative reviews of albums we love! What  was going through their minds when they wrote these reviews? Did they  miss the point of the album entirely? Did they go into it in an entirely  differing moodset? Or does the fact that only 28% of women in New  Jersey owning passports completely diminish the attempt at a heartfelt  metaphor?...

The  world has been a pretty bleak place for this whole year. Between  rampant disease, watching the country I live in destroy itself from  corruption, and seeing people become emboldened by moral bankruptcy,  it's enough to put anyone in a state of depression. In an effort to  combat that, we decided that this week, we're going to share with each  other and the audie...

With the announcement of the  newest album from a band that shocked its fanbase back in 2017 with  their divisive new sound and direction, we thought it might be fun this  week to go over all of the bands we can think of that went through  similar drastic changes in their sounds in a segment we're calling  CHANGE IT UP / CHANGE IT BACK! Did we think these changes were for...

We've got a stacked show lined  up for you this week with a track-by-track breakdown of the much  anticipated third album, and their major label debut, 'Use Me' by PVRIS.  They broke onto the scene back in 2014 with their debut full-length,  'White Noise', that turned a lot of heads due to its infectious  choruses, genre-bending sonic sounds, and its obvious passion. Now,...

We're about two-thirds through  with the year so far and while we've gotten a good handful of new albums  so far, there are still some that we were expecting that we've yet to  hear from yet. With that being said, this week we take this opportunity  to check in with The 2020 Skinny Draft as we update ourselves and the  participating listeners on the point values of albums...

We  were introduced to the newest album 'Sex, Death & The Infinite  Void' by UK band Creeper from one of our listeners a couple of weeks  ago. And without giving too much away for this week's track-by-track  breakdown, we fell in love with it and we have A LOT to say about why  this album spoke to us in the way it did! Please enjoy this week's  episode as we as we...

One  of the most influential, most successful, most widely-known, and one of  Adam's Top 20 albums of all time, 'American Idiot' by Green Day, is  what we're highlighting in this track-by-track review of a modern  classic. Sixteen years after the album first released, we look at the  album's complex and layered themes of existentialism, repressed rage,  and lost love...