Welcome to week #25 of Priest Picks. This week finds us with a new Springsteen album in our grubby paws and we've spent a lot quality...

It happened again the other day. I got all wrapped up in my embarrassingly small stack (relative to the catalog) of Blue Note vinyl....

Welcome to week #24 of Priest Picks. After a quick trip south, way south, for a great live show (how great it is to even write that...

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...

Ah, 1974! Another shit show year from our glorious past! Of course, that applied to almost everything but the music. The music was...

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...

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...

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...

We love album art, so today Pickled Priest is starting a regular series that focuses exclusively on the visual aspect of music. We...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...