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...

Welcome to week #15 of Priest Picks. We’ve got a little of everything this week: sad news, music docs, Spanish music from American...

There are many songs about girls. Everybody loves girls, particularly rock stars (for better or worse as we will see). The last time I...

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!...

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...

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...

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...

Welcome to week #12 of Priest Picks. As we head toward Quarantine: The Sequel we’re really going to need some interesting things to...

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...

This tape documents an extremely important period from my formative years. A time when all synapses were firing, often in all the wrong...

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...

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...

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...

Welcome to week #8 of the Pickled Priest Top 10. I’ve been listening to a lot of older stuff this week, but there’s always plenty of new...

I was lucky enough as a young kid to live in close proximity to a well-known record store. Rolling Stones Records, admittedly not the...

Welcome to week #7 of the Pickled Priest Top 10! The Priest has been busy this week anointing songs and records, baptizing new artists,...

1992 sadly looked a lot like 2020. We've learned very little as a society since. For me musically, it was a time dominated by alternative...

We were tempted to put the new Run the Jewels album in spots one through ten this week and call it a day. That's how much we want you to...

If you ranked every year in rock & roll’s history for the sheer volume of incredible music produced, there’s a good chance 1971 would be...

I like to think of our weekly Top 10 as a diversion from the real world, but it's getting more and more difficult to accomplish that...

The next year we’re going to tackle in our Favorite Songs Mixtape Series is 2019. I have faint memories of it myself, but I’m pretty sure...

In this mixtape, we examine 26 songs that need no introduction precisely because of their introduction. Some people walk into a party...

Welcome to this week's Top 10 list. Despite a tough week in America, the show goes on. As always, we've got 10 distractions for you to...

This is the first mixtape I've made in this ongoing series where have no personal memories from the year in question. I did not go to the...