Priest Picks #23: Prolific, Protean, Pollard, & Perfection
Welcome to week #23 of Priest Picks. This week we examine the pros and cons of prolificacy. On one hand, it’s a good year to crank out an...
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- Oct 18, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1974
Ah, 1974! Another shit show year from our glorious past! Of course, that applied to almost everything but the music. The music was...
- Oct 12, 2020
Priest Picks #22: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #22 of Priest Picks. This was a particularly harsh week for those of us who appreciate guitar heroics. But better to have...
- Oct 5, 2020
Priest Picks #21: Our Weekly Top 10 (Special Top 18 Edition)
Welcome to week #21 of Priest Picks. This has been a busy week here as we do some catch-up maintenance in preparation for winter. So...
- Sep 28, 2020
Priest Picks #20: Our Favorite Songs of Q3 Mixtape
Welcome to week #20 of Priest Picks! At the end of each fiscal quarter (March, June, and Sept) I’m going to put together a “Favorite...
- Sep 26, 2020
Cover Story: Pickled Priest Album Art Spotlight / Bruce Springsteen
We love album art, so today Pickled Priest is starting a regular series that focuses exclusively on the visual aspect of music. We...
- Sep 21, 2020
Priest Picks #19: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #19 of Priest Picks. Instead of blowing a gasket this week, I again opted to take refuge in my default vices: rock and...
- Sep 16, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 2015
The second decade of this century has been a blur. As I was choosing songs for this tape I realized that if I was quizzed on the year...
- Sep 14, 2020
Priest Picks #18: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #18 of Priest Picks! Thanks for tolerating me last week—I had some issues my team of therapists told me I needed to...
- Sep 7, 2020
Priest Picks #17: Top 10 "Pet Peeves" Edition
Welcome to week #17 of Priest Picks. This week I switch gears for a few moments to introduce a regular diversion I’m going to call...
- Sep 3, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1962
This is the first mixtape in our Yearly Mixtape Series where we weren’t even born yet when the music first was released. Hence, every...
- Aug 31, 2020
Priest Picks #16: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #16 of Priest Picks. Yet another brutal week in America comes to an end. Heavy sigh. If you’re like us, you use music as...
- Aug 24, 2020
Priest Picks #15: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #15 of Priest Picks. We’ve got a little of everything this week: sad news, music docs, Spanish music from American...
- Aug 20, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Girls Talk, Volume 1
There are many songs about girls. Everybody loves girls, particularly rock stars (for better or worse as we will see). The last time I...
- Aug 17, 2020
Priest Picks #14: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #14 of Priest Picks. We took last week off to take stock of our lives and guess what? We’re doing everything right!...
- Aug 7, 2020
The Pickled Priest Takes On...Taylor Swift's folklore
In a new semi-regular feature, titled The Pickled Priest Takes On..., we'll pick an album by a huge star or band and dissect it in detail...
- Aug 3, 2020
Priest Picks #13: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #13 of Priest Picks. We’re playing some catch-up this week, so it’s all new music this time. We’re rewarding brevity this...
- Jul 31, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: The Great Covers, Volume 1
I've been toying with the idea of making you this mixtape for some time now. Yeah, I've noticed you in the cafeteria acting all cool with...
- Jul 28, 2020
Priest Picks #12: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #12 of Priest Picks. As we head toward Quarantine: The Sequel we’re really going to need some interesting things to...
- Jul 20, 2020
Priest Picks #11: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #11 of Priest Picks. We did our mid-year list of favorite songs of 2020 (so far) last week, but we weren't entirely...
- Jul 15, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1980
This tape documents an extremely important period from my formative years. A time when all synapses were firing, often in all the wrong...
- Jul 14, 2020
Priest Picks #10: 25 of Our Favorite Songs of 2020 (So Far)
Here’s our entry into the “Best Songs of 2020 (So Far)” sweepstakes. Why should we be limited to one list per year?—We’re Americans and...
- Jul 8, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 2003
The next mixtape we have for you is from 2003. I don't quite remember this year and the songs don't really help jog my memory.I attribute...
- Jul 6, 2020
Priest Picks #9: Top 10 Records of 2020 (So Far)
For the love of god, is it only mid-year? Did we add some extra months to this year on a trial basis? If so, that means it’s time for the...
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