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Alkaline Trio
Biography from Last.fm
Alkaline Trio are a punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Matt Skiba (guitar/vocals), Dan Andriano (bass/vocals), and Derek Grant (drums/backing vocals). Their music is characterized by dark lyrics, catchy hooks, fast tempos and recurring subjects of alcoholism, depression, shattered relationships, drugs and death.
The band formed in December of 1996, originally consisting of Skiba, Rob Doran (bass/vocals), and Glenn Porter (drums/vocals). Read more on Last.fm
Alkaline Trio on Thrash Hits
Sunday Slaylist: Reading & Leeds Festival 2013
August 11th, 2013
With the August Bank Holiday weekend rapidly approaching, Reading & Leeds Festivals are once again upon us. As with every year, Reading & Leeds have a bit fat dollop of heaviness in among the landfill indie, so for this week’s Sunday Slaylist we’ve put together a Spotify playlist of the hardest and heaviest from their 2013 line-ups.
Album: Matt Skiba and The Sekrets – Babylon
May 15th, 2012
Matt Skiba And The Sekrets
Babylon
Superball Music
07 May 2012
by Ruth Booth
Regular readers of Thrash Hits will remember we ran this photo a while ago, with a certain amount of disbelief. With his penchant for wry, dark romance, if Alkaline Trio’s frontman took a cue from any Lost Boys, our money would’ve been on these ones. But, aside from possible sponsorship by the local bird sanctuary, this photo told us two crucial things about Matt Skiba’s new project.
Bad Band Photos 008: Matt Skiba (And The Sekrets)
March 1st, 2012
Matt Skiba is one of our heroes. The frontman of Alkaline Trio (one of our Bands of the Decade) has started a new project with the AFI bassist, Hunter Burgan and the My Chemical Romance touring drummer, Jarrod Alexander. Maybe it’s just something about feather headdresses but…
Matt Skiba
From: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Actually from: Somewhere with loads of peace pipes to smoke ‘stuff’, obviously
Age: 36… it’s a tough age, fashion-wise
LOL factor: 6/6 – he didn’t even inflict it on the other Sekrets
URL: Facebook // Twitter
End of the Decade: bits & bobs celebrating the 2000s (Noughties?)
December 31st, 2009
Linkin Park are the biggest selling band of this decade, nay, century. That’s a statement that really hurts, isn’t it. They’ve sold more records than Metallica, Iron Maiden or even The Beatles. Yes, feel free to weep because there doesn’t seem like much to celebrate. Right? WRONG!
There really have been some amazing bands, albums and songs that have have had an amazing effect over the past ten years and we’re going to focus on them with loads of celebratory articles about them. And this is where you can find all of them. Handy, eh?
Band of the Decade: Alkaline Trio
November 24th, 2009
Album: Alkaline Trio – Agony & Irony
August 4th, 2008
Alkaline Trio
Agony & Irony
V2 Records
04 July 2008
by Sadie Gabriel
Agony & Irony is the latest kohl eyed piece of the Alkaline Trio‘s musical puzzle and they are back and as brutally morbid and beautifully melodic as ever.