Album Cover Story #5: Do The Scorpions Shock You Like a Hurricane or Merit a Total Blackout?
A Pickled Priest Special Edition: Easter with the Scorpions! Hell, it's better than spending it with a, er, priest!
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- Apr 4, 2022
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of Q1 2022 (Academy Fight Song Edition)
It's only been three months? WTF? I've already got more songs than the pan can handle! Here are our favorites so far.
- Mar 20, 2022
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1977
1977 distilled into 26 songs? Can't be done. But here is Pickled Priest's futile attempt to do just that.
- Dec 27, 2021
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW: Sweeping up after the party, final lists, and 21 of our favorite things
This week you get the best EPs, song/album titles, sleepers, long/short songs, Americana, and 21 of our favorite things from 2021!
- Dec 19, 2021
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our Annual Mixtapes Ft. Our Favorites Songs of the Year, Pt. 2 (Songs 52-01)
Our final mixtapes reveal our Top 52 favorites of 2021. If you've been listed out by now, make room for something significantly different.
- Dec 19, 2021
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our Annual Mixtapes Ft. Our Favorite Songs of the Year, Pt. 1 (Songs 104-53)
We've made you four mixtapes of new music this year you lucky bastards! Here are the first two.
- Dec 12, 2021
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our 50 Favorite Records of the Year
This is our list. This is what we listened to in 2021. No agenda. No trends. No attempt to be cool (obviously).
- Dec 6, 2021
2021 YEAR IN REVIEW: Our 25 Favorite Album Covers of the Year (and 10 of the Worst)
We kick off our 2021 in Review this week by celebrating the graphic designers and artists who bring music to your eyes, not your ears.
- Nov 14, 2021
The Pickled Priest Guide to Bruce Springsteen's Worst Lyrics
There's a blood red moon over the berm, a mongrel sun is on the rise, your sweet lips beckon little girly, for this lonely young matador
- Nov 10, 2021
The Pickled Priest Guide to Bruce Springsteen's Best Lyrics
Bruce was born to write lyrics in the U.S.A. and this feature reveals our 50 favorite Springsteen lyrics ever written.
- Oct 16, 2021
Album Cover Story #4: Cannibal Corpse's Unholy Alliance With Artist Vincent Locke
In this HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, we look at the gruesome and disturbing album covers of one of the most banned bands in the land. Cannibal Corpse.
- Sep 30, 2021
Priest Picks #31: Our Favorite Songs of Q3 2021
Our Q3 mixtape is here! The plan is in place. Your seduction assured.
- Aug 22, 2021
The Pickled Priest Takes On....The Kiss Solo Albums
You didn't want it, but you got it. Another post about the (former) hottest band in the world...KISS!
- Jul 7, 2021
Priest Picks #30: Our Favorite Songs of Q2 2021
Here's our Q2 mixtape of our favorite songs of the past three months. I think you'll find it to be definitive and inadequate simultaneously
- Jul 1, 2021
Pickled Priest's 21 from 21: Our Favorite Records of the Year (So Far)
Our midyear list of our favorite records of 2021 so far awaits you. You are one click away from 21 Pickled Priest endorsed albums!
- May 28, 2021
Pickled Priest Mixtape: 26 Killer Soul Slabs from the Amazing Catalog of Colemine Records
Here's a mixtape you won't want to miss. Modern funk and soul singles from a great American record label to supercharge your weary soul!!!
- May 10, 2021
After the Ampersand: Pickled Priest's 25 Best Backing Band Names of All-Time
What's in a name? The answer is everything. The difference between cool and lame is one or two words away. So what are you going with?
- May 3, 2021
Cover Story #3: Album Art Spotlight / Our 25 Favorite Jazz Album Covers (not released by Blue Note)
The second in our ongoing series of album art appreciation sessions continues with more from the world of jazz.
- Apr 5, 2021
Priest Picks #29: Our Favorite Songs of Q1 2021 Mixtape
It's time for another Pickled Priest quarterly mixtape of our favorite news songs of the last 90 days. Fuck yeah!
- Mar 17, 2021
The Pickled Priest Complete Guide to Grammy Atrocities, Album of the Year Winners, Pt. 2: 1991-2023
Here's part two of our Grammy love fest! This time, we get into the stuff people might still remember!
- Mar 16, 2021
The Pickled Priest Complete Guide to Grammy Atrocities: Album of the Year Winners, Pt. 1: 1959-1990
The Grammy Awards are the worst awards show of them all. Here, we prove it definitively, once and for all.
- Mar 15, 2021
Priest New Music Pick #28: Let's Play Pretend EP by Abbie Ozard
You've got time in your schedule, you know it and I know it, so set aside thirteen minutes for Abbie Ozard today.
- Mar 7, 2021
Priest New Music Pick #27: Clothbound by The Sonder Bombs
Cleveland's Sonder Bombs start 2021 off right with an album of volume that's still sympathetic to our current plight.
- Feb 17, 2021
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1988
How do you condense a pivotal year in your musical development into one 26-song mixtape? You don't. But here it is anyway.
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