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Matthew Thomas Skiba (born February 24, 1976) is an American musician. He is best known as the co-lead vocalist and guitarist of the punk rock band Alkaline Trio, and served as the co-lead vocalist and guitarist of Blink-182 from 2015 to 2022. [1] Skiba's lyrical content commonly involves dark romantic themes.
In September 2006, Patent Pending, the debut album by Matt Skiba's side project Heavens was released. The band consisted of Skiba on guitar and vocals, and Josiah Steinbrick (of hardcore punk outfit F-Minus) on bass. On the album, the duo were joined by The Mars Volta's Isaiah "Ikey" Owens on organ and Matthew Compton on drums and percussion ...
The band was locked down in their hotel room shortly after being notified of the situation when Skiba received a phone call from a friend and crush. [1] [2] Skiba explained, "We could hear gunshots and sirens as the situation escalated. My friend asked if it was a bad time to talk, and I said no – I really wanted to speak with her.
However, these lyrics were scrapped when he sent the music to Skiba, who rewrote the lyrics about a "lady friend of mine". [3] "There were just a lot of parallels with someone who I felt was a great love of my life and probably always will be. But I wrote it for her. The end." - Matt Skiba [3]
My Shame Is True is the eighth studio album by Chicago-based rock band Alkaline Trio, released on April 2, 2013 on Heart & Skull and Epitaph Records.Produced by both Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore, the album was preceded by the single, "I Wanna Be a Warhol", and was released with an accompanying EP, Broken Wing, featuring four additional songs recorded during the same sessions.
- Matt Skiba [4] The song was written about Susan Atkins; a member of the Manson Family involved in all but one of the nine murders the family committed in California in the 1960s. Atkins was nicknamed Sadie Mae Glutz (or Sexy Sadie) by Charles Manson, which is where the song's name came from. Skiba wrote it as a more sympathetic look at Atkins ...
"Hell Yes" is a song by the Chicago-based punk rock band Alkaline Trio, released as a single in 2001 through Lookout! Records.Both tracks of the single, "Hell Yes" and "My Standard Break from Life", were recorded in 2000 at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota during sessions for the band's 2001 album From Here to Infirmary.
The lyrics of "Help Me" were inspired by Anton Corbijn's 2007 film Control, a biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. [3] The single's cover art was inspired by Peter Saville's artwork for Joy Division's 1980 single "Love Will Tear Us Apart", a song that Alkaline Trio singer and guitarist Matt Skiba covered in November 2008 with his side project Heavens.