Pickled Priest: Humorous Rock and Roll Criticism with Heart

1 day ago

2024 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our Annual Mixtapes Ft. Our Favorite Songs of the Year, Pt. 2 (Songs 052-001)

The Best Songs of 2024 according to one source! Which means you won't see all the same songs you've seen everywhere else. How refreshing!

1 day ago

2024 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our Annual Mixtapes Ft. Our Favorite Songs of the Year, Pt. 1 (Songs 104-053)

Four mixtapes made especially for you. 104 artists / 104 songs. No repeats. Ranked in order. What more do you want? Here's PART ONE.

7 days ago

2024 YEAR IN REVIEW: Pickled Priest's 50 Favorite Records of the Year

It's list season and you know what that means. The same records in slightly different order from just about everybody. Except here, that is.

Oct 18

Pickled Priest Cover Story #12: Your Cover Should Know...Assessing the Album Covers of the Beatles

Were the Beatles album covers as good as their music? The Pickled Priest investigates.

Oct 12

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #7 - "I Made This Tape"

More communion wafers for the Pickled Priest's congregation served buffet style. All you can eat.

Oct 6

Pickled Priest Mini-Project #3: Radios Appear! A Mixtape of Our Favorite Songs About the Radio

A mixtape about the radio. Pickled Priest combines two dying art forms in one post!

Sep 14

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1959

Do you remember when rock was young? When you and Suzie had so much fun? Well, you had fun at least. Suzie? Not so much.

Sep 8

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #6 - "Plug Your Headphones Straight Into My Heart"

Just in from the cassette factory is our latest mixtape, available for $39.99 C.O.D. right to your door. Or just listen here for free.

Aug 23

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 2014

"Ten years come and gone so fast I might as well have been dreaming." -Paul Simon

Aug 17

Pickled Priest's Moderately Definitive Guide to the 50 Best Band Logos of All-Time

We've been working on a logorithm on our office chalkboard all week and we've finally determined the formula for a good band logo. Read on.

Aug 6

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #5 - "Call It Like We Hear It"

We have been taking care of business, but we haven't been working overtime. Still, we found a full mixtape of great songs. All for you.

Jul 12

Cover Story #11: Vote for Pedro? - Pickled Priest Ranks Funkadelic's Album Covers

I pledge allegiance to one nation, under a groove, forever and ever, with a free mind and obedient ass, or so spank me god.

Jul 6

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1975

A year of undeniable classics mixed with some stuff that shouldn't be here, but is. It's confusing coming of age.

Jun 30

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #4 - "Our Delicious Vice "

Spanning the globe to bring you constant varieties of music, it's another Pickled Priest New Music Mixtape!

Jun 9

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1969

Well, it's 1969, okay. All across the USA. Another year for me and you. Another year with nothin' to do. Except make a mixtape, that is.

Jun 1

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #3, "Rites of Passage"

Blind faith, aliens, dance crazes, death, time management, multi-tasking, it's all here in one convenient mixtape.

May 3

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1982

We were young. That's our excuse. What's yours?

Apr 24

Cover Story #10: The Ultimate Makeup Game - Pickled Priest Ranks the Kiss Album Covers

For a band that was all about image, many of their album covers sucked. But the select few that didn't were iconic. We sort it all out here.

Apr 17

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #2, "Discovering Your Own Music"

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Apr 2

Pickled Priest Mini-Project #2: Our Favorite Artists A to Z, "Modern" Version (1990-Present)

OK, now we're just showing off. If time wasting was an art, we'd be Pickled Picasso.

Apr 1

Pickled Priest Mini-Project #1: Our Favorite Artists A to Z

So you thought you were better at wasting time than the Pickled Priest, eh? Think again.

Mar 28

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite New Songs of 2024, Volume #1

Just off the conveyor, fresh from the oven, & picked off the vine, a mixtape of new music from 2024, curated by a handsy Priest. Enjoy.

Mar 15

Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1999

I don't know how to tell you this, but at midnight the world is going to descend into the realm of chaos.

Mar 9

Cover Story #9: Take a Walk on the Domesticated Side - The Ruff Guide to Dogs on Album Covers

Do dogs make everything better? The answer is yes when it comes to album covers. And everything else pretty much.

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