Priests

Priests’ New Years Eve show in Brooklyn is their ”last together for the foreseeable future,” they say.

It may not surprise you to learn that one of the most mainstream music magazines still in print publication, Rolling Stone, has a lot of mainstream artists in their Best Albums of 2019 list…

Priests were just in NYC this past weekend for Pitchfork’s music-and-beer extravaganza Octfest and their current lineup now includes bassist Anna Nasty (who until recently performed as Olivia Neutron-John)…

Pitchfork’s third-annual music-and-beer fest took over the whole of Knockdown Center on Saturday…

Plus: Paul Simon, Goose Island Block Party in Chicago (with Kurt Vile, Jenny Lewis, Margo Price, and more), Blood Orange/Kelsey Lu, PUP/AJJ, Jidenna, Vinnie Caruana, and more upcoming tour and concert news.

This year Octfest is at Queens Knockdown Center in October and also features Lower Dens, METZ, Priests, Empath, and Control Top.

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”This whole album (Danzig) is actually pretty sexy, something it doesn’t get enough credit for. We thought we’d tease this out a little more in our cover by re-imagining it with a ‘Let’s Dance’ era Nile-Rogers-producing-Bowie kind of glamor.”

DC band Priests recently released their ambitious new album,’The Seduction of Kansas’, and celebrated on Tuesday night (4/17) at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere…

This week: review of LPs by The Drums, Priests, Lawrence Arabia, Patio, Shana Cleveland (La Luz), Rose Elinor Dougall, and more.