The Skinny with Mike and Adam is a music-centric podcast which takes a look at the latest news, releases, and reviews from today's music scene and beyond. Stay subscribed for track-by-track album reviews, countdowns, music news, hilarious commentary from co-hosts, Mike and Adam, and much more! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theskinnywithmikeandadam/support
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Surprisingly, we’ve never done this before, but in this episode we - at long last - share our Top 10 Favorite EPs! After you listen to the episode, be sure to save the Spotify Playlist of all of the songs that we shared! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/29OfnBUu8Vv5dcQ6pKTJb6?si=ow531zH1RwaRT1aA9uvQKg Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on …
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We catch up with one another talking about birthdays, Fort Worth, union strikes, Super Bowl XLI, and more. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Destroy Rebuild Unitl God Shows, Rain City Drive, Balance and Composure, Fever 333, Town of Lake, Fixation, and nothing,nowhere. #DestroyRebuildUntilGodShows #RainCityDrive…
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Chiodos/Craig Owens Retrospective
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On this episode, we reflect back on the long and influential career of Craig Owens and his time with Chiodos and the many other projects that he would go on to helm. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like Boston Manor, House of Protection, The Amity Affliction, and Rain City Drive #Chiodos #DestroyRebuildUntilGodShow…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XVI (feat. Being As An Ocean, Blind Guardian, Delta Rae, and Saosin)
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Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our 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 …
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Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance Album Review
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To celebrate 20 years since My Chemical Romance hit the mainstream with their masterpiece album, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, Adam and Mike listen to the album in full and talk about this album’s impact on their lives and on their music tastes. As we await whatever comes next from this band going into the future, we reflect on their place in the…
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Mixtape Moratorium - The Essential Bring Me The Horizon
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Adam and Mike attempt to create the perfect Bring Me The Horizon mixtape to share with someone who is unfamiliar with the band. We go through all of their eras from Count Your Blessings to NexGen. Which songs made the cut?! Check out the Spotify Playlist here and let us know what you think! - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4cr9vKTrZqZ5ihSgvsF0H8…
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Having A Chat While We Chat About Stuff That Bros Chat About
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Mike and Adam are catching up with one another, having a casual chat between friends and also catching up with what they’ve been listening to over this slow music release month. Also on the episode, we share our thoughts on albums from artists like The Ataris, Vendetta Red, Balance & Composure, and MisterWives ______________________________________…
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The Skinny’s Mid-Year Check In 2024
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We’ve reached the halfway point of 2024, 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 Lindsey Stirling, The Story So Far, nothing,nowhere., and…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XV (feat. Daisyhead, Bruce Springsteen, The Devon Townsend Project, The Honorary Title, U2 and B.B. King)
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Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our 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 …
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POST HUMAN: NeX GEn by Bring Me The Horizon Album Review
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The long awaited and long delayed next chapter in BMTH’s POST HUMAN saga was surprisingly released recently! And after all that time, was it worth the wait?! After listening to it for a week straight, listen along to the album with us as we share our thoughts on Bring Me The Horizon’s POST HUMAN: Nex GEn in this track-by-track review! Also on the e…
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SeeYouSpaceCowboy… 101 (feat. friend of the show, Daniel)
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This week, we’re joined by longtime friend of the show and co-host of The Dorkiest Podcast, Daniel! He’s been partly responsible for a lot of the great content and recommendations that have come our way over the past several years, and this time, he’s here to give us and the audience a thorough education on all things SeeYouSpaceCowboy - one of his…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XIV (feat. Sleep Token, Oceana, Beach Slang, Bob Dylan, and Vendetta Red)
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Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our 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 …
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Thanks to the suggestion of one of our listeners on Discord, today we're doing a retrospective of one of Mike's favorite bands, New Jersey darling's Thursday. They were one of the pioneers of the second wave of emo during the 2000s and have since influenced a ton of bands that we all have come to love, including My Chemical Romance. Join us as we g…
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Sum 41 is a band that we all have known and have been around for more than 24 years now! With the release of their final album, Heaven :x: Hell, we thought it was a good time to take a look back at this often overlooked band and reminisce on the albums that surprised for their meaningfulness and complexity as well as the albums that once let them s…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XIII (feat. TTNG, Rhapsody, General Fiasco, From First To Last, and Dave Matthews Band)
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Welcome back to The Greatest Song In The World, our recurring monthly segment in which we and members of our audience submit some of our 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 …
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Is This Good?! - feat. Music From Richard Marx and John Parr
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After a brief hiatus, we’re back! Thank you for continuing to stick around and show your support while Mike needed some time off to care for his wife. On this week’s episode, we’re trying out a new segment we’re calling “Is This Good?!” in which Mike and Adam submit a song that they love, despite its flaws, and debate the song’s merits before final…
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In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, Adam and Mike share the musicians and artists who were their first childhood crushes ♥ We’ve also got fun Super Bowl LVIII predictions recorded before the Big Game happened this past Sunday, so it’ll be fun to find out if Mahomes really did rise from the grave in the 3rd quarter after being sacked for the fifth tim…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XII (feat. Ben Howard, Dan Campbell, Delta Rae, and Frank Turner)
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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…
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Your Childhood Sucks! (feat. music from This Romantic Tragedy, Hollywood Undead, Peter Gabriel, Linkin Park, and Andrew Lloyd Webber)
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Inspired by some of our listeners over on our Discord, Adam and Mike listen and react to music and music videos from the formative years of their youth! We throw two picks from our own childhoods as well and at the end, we determine - all in good fun, of course - if your childhood holds up today! Thanks so much to friends of the show, Dave, Daniel,…
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It's that time once again for the greatest sporting event of the year...the Skinny Draft Special for the 2024 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 few years, we're opening up the draft to our listeners as well!…
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Adam and Mike's Best Songs of 2023 (Part 2: 6 to 1)
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With 2023 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 linked below and tell us what some of YOUR favorite songs of the year are as well. #Boygenius #TheGaslight…
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Adam and Mike's Best Songs of 2023 (Part 1: 12 to 7)
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With the new year upon us and 2023 now a distant memory, Adam and Mike share the songs that they will remember going forward as the year's BEST! This week, we hear their Top 12 Best Songs of 2023 (part 1: songs 12 - 7). Check out the Spotify playlist curated by our listeners over on Discord of some of THEIR favorite songs of this past year as well:…
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The Skinny's Best Albums of 2023
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It's our final episode of the year, so what better way to celebrate than to share our Best Albums of 2023! 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 c…
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Most Disappointing/Worst Albums of 2023
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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 2023! Did you listen to any albums this year that disappointed you or just flat out h…
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2023 Honorable Mentions (Albums #20 to #11)
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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 la…
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Adam and Mike’s 2023 In Memoriam
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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…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part XI (feat. A Skylit Drive, Number One Fan, LIGHTS, and Carousel Kings)
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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…
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History Books by The Gaslight Anthem Album Review
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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 …
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Zach Bryan Self-Titled Album Review
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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 thought…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part X (feat. Bring Me The Horizon, The Wonder Years, Jim Steinman, and Dustin Kensrue)
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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…
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The Noble Art of Self-Destruction by Holding Absence Album Review
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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…
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Suicide and Sunshine by Trophy Eyes Album Review
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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 Rod…
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Adam Can FINALLY Stop Hitting F5 On His Browser Now!
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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 br…
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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 u…
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The Skinny’s Mid-Year Check In 2023
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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. ---…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part IX (feat. So Long Forgotten, We The Wild, Dire Straits, AFI, and Counting Crows)
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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…
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Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token Album Review
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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 t…
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The May 2023 Albums So Far… (Hot Mulligan, grandson, Smashing Pumpkins, girlfriends, Ghost, Sleep Token, and more!)
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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 T…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part VIII (feat. Oceans Ate Alaska, Biffy Clyro, letlive., and Matchbox Twenty)
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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…
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Sempiternal by Bring Me The Horizon Album Review
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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 sh…
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VOID ETERNAL by nothing,nowhere. Album Review
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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 ET…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part VII (feat. Hellions, mewithoutYou, 16 Horsepower, Live, and Senses Fail)
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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 on…
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SETTLE IT!: Brian Fallon’s Painkillers vs. Sleepwalkers (Round 2)
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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 alb…
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SETTLE IT!: Brian Fallon’s Painkillers vs. Sleepwalkers (Round 1)
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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-write…
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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…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part VI (feat. My Chemical Romance, Meatloaf, Broadway, and Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties)
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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 …
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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 yo…
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The Greatest Song In The World: Part V (feat. The Goo Goo Dolls, Chiodos, The Hotelier, & Dave Hause)
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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 …
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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 we…
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Adam and Mike's Best Songs of 2022 (Part 2: 6 to 1)
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With 2022 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 linked below and tell us what some of YOUR favorite songs of the year are as well. #ArmsLength #Bloodywood…
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