The Skinny with Mike and Adam

Keeping  it nice and cajj (err uh, casual. I think that's how to spell the slang  term for it 🤔) on this fast and loose episode this week. While we do  have topics that we discuss this week, we take this opportunity to catch  up with one another, see how we're doing - since we haven't seen each  other in weeks, and talk about things that are on our minds, like the very st...

My  Chemical Romance is one of the biggest, most successful bands of recent  memory. And it all started with a quaint little album that was released  back in July 23rd, 2002 called 'I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought  Me Your Love'. With the album's 18th birthday this past week, we thought  it'd be fun to do a track-by-track review of the one that started it  all f...

Over  the past few weeks, Mike has been deep diving into the discography of  one of Adam's favorite bands that he fell in love with during his teen  years, The Doors. With a lot to say and cover about the band, this week  we decided to do a track-by-track breakdown of the band's final album  with Jim Morrison - released 3 months prior to his untimely death in  1971 -...

We're  going old-school this week as we head back into the past and revisit  our punk roots with a bit of deep dive into two of the most highly  influential bands of the 80s and 90s - and who just so happen to still  be around making music today - with Green Day and Bad Religion! Both  bands are west-coast punk staples and have gone on to be highly  successful and eve...

We  were recently acquainted with the Canadian-American / Las Vegas  glam-rock / art-rock / garage-rock / everything-rock band, Palaye  Royale, and after the both of us had some time to digest their newest  album, 'The Bastards' - released on May 29, 2020 - as well as a brief  deep dive into some of their older work, we were impressed with their  unique blending of ge...

Panic!  At The Disco has been a staple of the music scene ever since their  sudden debut back in 2005. When their first singles hit the airwaves,  regardless of what you thought about them, they still demanded your  attention. They've had a very interesting career over the past 15 years  and the Brendon Urie led project has since cemented itself as one of the  biggest...

We  are smack dab in the middle of June and because the rest of the year is  still uncertain, we thought that now is a good time to take a look back  at all of the albums we've been listening to this year and give a new  mid-year review. Also  on the show this week, we follow up on last week's big story in which  Austin Carlile has broken his silence and given a state...

The  music scene has been pretty busy this past week. While the world is  burning all around us, some band members of pretty much all of your  favorite bands have been (allegedly) exposed for using racial slurs and  preying on underage girls. These types of stories are nothing new to the  current music scene, so while we try to unpack everything that's going  on, we a...

This  week's episode is heavy as we take a bit of a step back from music news  to discuss current events and matters of injustice and ingrained  societal prejudice. While the topics we discuss on this episode are  meant to create a dialog in order to help process our anger,  frustration, confusion, and guilt, we also acknowledge that we are both  men of privilege in t...

Production  note: If you would prefer to bypass the first portion of this week's  episode which discusses current events and topics of human rights, you  can start the show at 23:33 On  this week's episode, we share our thoughts on the very dense, very  long, and very musically varied fourth full-length album, 'Notes On A  Conditional Form' by The 1975. We don't quite...

In  an attempt to try and understand a band that our peers seemed to love  and that the two of us just never did, Adam decided to try out the short  discography and read up on the history of scene kings, Attack Attack!  What is it about them and their music that a lot of fans - including a  good handful of our own listeners - are gravitated to and have  influenced the...

This  week, we thought we might play a fun little game that's either going to  be called "2 out of 10: Would Not Headbang", "Worst Album Ever", or  "Turgid Naval Gazing" (we haven't decided yet). In it, Adam has to guess  the name of a beloved album using only the harshly negative reviews  that Mike found online! We  also discuss our thoughts on the debut solo album b...

Keeping  it nice, light, and casual for this week's episode. We chat about  Adam's rough week; we share our thoughts on 'GLUE', the new album by  Boston Manor; we continue our journey with modern classics with album  rundowns for Smashing Pumpkins and the Goo Goo Dolls; and we jock-out as  we learn more about the Chicago Bulls in the ongoing documentary  series, The L...

Somehow  this past week, somebody trapped Adam into one of those inescapable  chain letter posts on Facebook. So, naturally, Adam decided to trapped  Mike into it as well, as best-friends are prone to do. Thankfully, it  was a great excuse to reflect and talk about some music from years past  that have meant a lot to us and have, in turn, helped shape our overall  mus...

This  week's episode is a beefy one! With a handful of big, highly  anticipated albums coming out within weeks of each other, we definitely  have a lot to keep us entertained during this sheltering time. The  elephant in the room is, of course, the new album from Dance Gavin  Dance, 'Afterburner', in which we give our track-by-track breakdown on -  for what has seemin...

We  are on the cusp on some pretty big album releases coming up very soon!  And we've got our preliminary thoughts on a couple of them before we do a  series of track-by-track breakdowns in the next few weeks. Listen in as  we discuss albums new and old during another weekly quarantine  check-in. #JonnyCraig #EnterShikari #TheSmithStreetBand #REM #SmashingPumpkins #GooGooD...

As we take this sheltering at home one week at a time, we're using  this free time to record and release another remote episode of The  Skinny! On this week's show, Adam shares his thoughts on 'Wake Up,  Sunshine' by All Time Low and the new self-titled album by Miss Fortune  - which leads into a back a forth debate about supporting musicians who  are known fiends; Adam ta...

In an effort to not go stir-crazy, we have another remote podcast from our underground bunkers this week. After another check-in with how we're  coping with the seemingly increasing bad news of the world, we also  discuss some more pleasant topics like Adam finally finishing the terms  of his lost bet, which means we get to hear his thoughts on Ant-Man and  the Wasp, Captain Ma...

The holiest of days has come upon us; a day in which we here at The  Skinny with Mike and Adam take the time out of our busy quarantining to  worship and give praise to our personal lord and savior, Brian Fallon.  For he has gifted unto us mere mortals another album to enjoy, to  dissect, to reflect, and to shed many a tears. So, of course, on  this week's episode, please...

These are weird, unprecedented times. Things are, of course, strange  over here at The Skinny with Mike and Adam too. On this week's episode,  in the interest of respecting California's recent 'Safer at Home'  initiative from the governor, we did our very first remote episode from  our respective homes (or rather, one of us decided to go and live in the  woods permanently)...

We're bringing back one of the first track-by-track reviews (if not THE first) we've done on this show. I'm talking, of course, about the infamous 'Fashionably Late' by Falling In Reverse from episode 50 all the way back in 2013. Apologies for no new episode this week, but due to a sickness in the family, we were unable to get together. We KNOW that you're hungry for our expert thoughts on the new...

Before we're thrown in to some of the year's heavy hitters coming out  very soon, this week, we take the time to do a track-by-track review of  a recent album that we felt like deserved to be dissected and discussed  in more detail; 'Brave Faces, Everyone' by the band Spanish Love Songs.  We go song by song to pick apart some of the heavy and uncomfortable  lyrical themes...

Welcome back to the show for this week! We have a good time catching up  with one another; we finally talk about our betting stakes that we  neglected to discuss during last week's Skinny Draft; we answer 10  questions provided to us by one of our listeners that  predicts some of the events that may or may not happen in 2020; we  review and share our thoughts on some of th...

It's that time once again for the greatest sporting event of the  year...the Skinny Draft Special for the 2020 season! (Hold for applause)  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...

On this week's episode of the Skinny Seconds, we revisit a segment from 2014 in which we hang out in the wilderness of Big Bear, CA and take turns creating a supergroup! One of us took this concept and turned it into a hilarious romp and it's one of my favorite things we've done on the show. So I hope that you enjoy this short and silly re-run before we record our Skinny Draft Special on next week...