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...
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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...
Jun 30, 2020
Priest Picks #8: Our Weekly Top 10 List
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...
Jun 23, 2020
Like My Rolling Stones: A Tribute to a Great Record Store (But NOT a Eulogy!)
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...
Jun 22, 2020
Priest Picks #7: Our Weekly Top 10
Welcome to week #7 of the Pickled Priest Top 10! The Priest has been busy this week anointing songs and records, baptizing new artists,...
Jun 19, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1992
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...
Jun 15, 2020
Priest Picks #6: Our Weekly Top 10
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...
Jun 10, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 1971
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...
Jun 8, 2020
Priest Picks #5: Our Weekly Top 10
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...
Jun 5, 2020
Pickled Priest Mixtape: Our Favorite Songs of 2019
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...
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