Album art matters. Otherwise, why do so many artists spend so much time and money picking the artwork that represents their music?

The final two mixtapes include our 52 favorite songs of the year. A gift for you at Xmas from the Pickled Priest with love.

The Best Songs of 2022? Nope. Just the Pickled Priest 104 Favorites. Here's the first half. Don't just sit there. Indulge!

Get yourself a cocktail, a snack, and a comfy chair. Our Top 50 List is here. And it's a beast.

Better late than never, here's our Q3 mixtape. Some of our favorite songs of the last 90 days. Dig out your old cassette player and dig in.

Greatest rock & roll band? Perhaps. Greatest album covers? One way to find out. Pickled Priest rolls through them all!

We're professional time wasters here at the Pickled Priest. Prove it, you say? Read on.

We thank you, oh Pickled Priest for this bounty of songs, all sourced from Q2 of 2022. The second such bounty in two weeks. Amen.

A portion of the proceeds from Q2 2022, here is the first of two mid-year mixtapes made especially for you, you lucky fuck.

I was so much younger then, I'm older than that now. Which is the point. What happens when you look at your "youth" with fresh eyes?

The next installment in our best songs of the year series stops in 2000. Pre-9/11, pre-pandemic, pre-Drake. Times were better then, indeed.

A Pickled Priest Special Edition: Easter with the Scorpions! Hell, it's better than spending it with a, er, priest!

It's only been three months? WTF? I've already got more songs than the pan can handle! Here are our favorites so far.

1977 distilled into 26 songs? Can't be done. But here is Pickled Priest's futile attempt to do just that.

This week you get the best EPs, song/album titles, sleepers, long/short songs, Americana, and 21 of our favorite things from 2021!

Our final mixtapes reveal our Top 52 favorites of 2021. If you've been listed out by now, make room for something significantly different.

We've made you four mixtapes of new music this year you lucky bastards! Here are the first two.

This is our list. This is what we listened to in 2021. No agenda. No trends. No attempt to be cool (obviously).

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.

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

Bruce was born to write lyrics in the U.S.A. and this feature reveals our 50 favorite Springsteen lyrics ever written.

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.

Our Q3 mixtape is here! The plan is in place. Your seduction assured.

You didn't want it, but you got it. Another post about the (former) hottest band in the world...KISS!