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 aside on this week's episode to process those thoughts with one another as well as share our hopes going fo...
Nov 09, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 347
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 another example of how this band can do anything they want? Please enjoy our track-by-track review of 'P...
Nov 02, 2020•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 346
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 Attack's! reunion; we, at last, have a new album title and release date from Julien Baker; we got the n...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 345
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 for more than 12 years now! This episode was one of my favorite ones to do and I hope our great listen...
Oct 19, 2020•2 hr 35 min•Ep. 344
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 albums and we wanted to take a sincere look at it 20 years later and see if it holds up it any way. T...
Oct 05, 2020•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 343
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 to find out! Please stay subscribed to hear more episodes of The Skinny! This episode is sponsored in part by BallotReady.org. Go to Ball...
Sep 28, 2020•53 min
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? (I promise, that line will make sense in the context of the show) Regardless of the reviewers intent, these negative reviews that we pu...
Sep 21, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 342
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 audience 5 albums that we turn to in order to help remind us that there is still good in the world. Albums with wholesome messages of life, l...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 341
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 the better? Or did we think that these bands would have been better doing what they do best?! We hope you enjoy this fun look down...
Sep 07, 2020•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 340
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, six years and two albums later, does their music still carry that same fire and infectiousness that first made people pay attentio...
Aug 31, 2020•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 339
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 that have come out, but even better, we share some updates - including interviews and various quotes - that we researched on the a...
Aug 24, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 338
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 deep dive into the musical dynamics, the incredibly complex vocal range of the lead singer, and the way that this album effortlessly we...
Aug 17, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 336
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 and dissect each song piece by piece to discover whether or not the message and the album as a whole holds up going into the new decade....
Aug 10, 2020•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 336
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 strange - and since deleted - announcement from Tyler Carter last week; some MLB players from a CERTAIN STATE contracting the virus ...
Aug 03, 2020•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 334
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 for one of our favorite bands! We hope to you enjoy this nostalgic trip down memory lane. Also on the show this week, Movements announced...
Jul 27, 2020•2 hr 4 min•Ep. 334
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 - 'LA Woman'. Not only do we discuss each song at length, but we talk about the experience of what it's like listening to some of these so...
Jul 20, 2020•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 333
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 even break through to the mainstream, so it's going to be a fun experience finally taking the time to absorb their music. We hope you enjoy...
Jul 13, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 332
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 genres and influences enough to want to share a track-by-track review for you all to check out along with us. Also discussed, we all have ...
Jul 06, 2020•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 331
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 bands of our time! On this week's episode, we go through each of their albums and dissect how each of them are different in their own w...
Jun 29, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 330
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 statement on the multiple accusations levied on him in the past week. We review albums from Bilmuri and The Doors; and we geek out on a recen...
Jun 22, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 329
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 also try to discuss the issue of hero worship when it comes to your favorite artists and when to draw the line when it comes to separatin...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 328
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 this country and because of that, we want to use that privilege to show our support and our solidarity in any way we can; even if it mean...
Jun 08, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 327
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 do a traditional track-by-track review like we normally do, but we do at least discuss the album in depth. We anticipate a wide variety...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 326
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 their music tastes? And why did we just seem to pass them over back in 2008? Join us this week as we revisit their music, open our minds, a...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 325
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 by Paramore frontwoman, Hayley Williams, titled 'Petals For Armor'. Does it live up to the past works that Hayley Williams is known for? ...
May 18, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 324
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 Last Dance. We really appreciate your continued support of our show while we continue to do things a bit differently. We know you have a ...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 323
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 music tastes in our formative years and into today. So we hope that you enjoy this week's episode as we share with you all and each other o...
May 04, 2020•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 322
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 seemingly become a divisive album online. We also give our final thoughts on 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible' by Enter Shikari a...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 321
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 #GooGooDolls
Apr 20, 2020•1 hr 29 min
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 takes us further into the discography of R.E.M.; and overall, we check in on one another to make sure we're holding up okay. We hope...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr 31 min
