News: Priests Call It Quits (@ Rough Trade NYC, 12/31/19)

Posted on 12/12/2019 by Parklifer in Local Spotlight, Preview and tagged Daniele Daniele, DC, Gideon Jaguar, Katie Greer, post-punk, Priests, punk, Rough Trade NYC.

Priests (Photo by Drew Hagelin)

DC post-punk group Priests will go on permanent hiatus, the band announced on Facebook today. Priests will perform one last show at Rough Trade NYC on New Year’s Eve.

Poll: What Is the Best Local Band in DC?

Posted on 12/05/2019 by Mickey McCarter in Around Town and tagged Bencoolen, best of the year, Broke Royals, Dom Flemons, Ex Hex, Lightshow, Luna Honey, Priests, SHAED, Thrushie Awards, Wale.

Welcome to the 2019 Thrushie Awards!

Parklife DC will name the DC best local band — or performer — of the year with your input. Vote for the best music local band in the DC metro area now through Dec. 12.

Live Review: Priests @ 9:30 Club — 6/15/19

Posted on 06/19/2019 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review, Local Spotlight and tagged 9:30 Club, Daniele Daniele, DC, Gideon Jaguar, Katie Greer, post-punk, Priests, punk.

Katie Greer fronts Priests at 9:30 Club on June 15, 2019. (Photo by Ben Eisendrath / Instagram+Twitter: Insomnigraphic / GrillworksBen)

Refashioned post-punk quartet Priests really grooved to their appealing new songs at 9:30 Club recently in front of a very crowded hometown audience. In a very welcome development for a rapidly maturing band, the new songs proved the most fascinating in live performance.

Preview: Priests @ 9:30 Club, 6/15/19

Posted on 06/07/2019 by Parklifer in Local Spotlight, Preview and tagged 9:30 Club, DC, Katie Greer, post-punk, Priests, punk.

Priests (Photo by Drew Hagelin)

DC post-punks Priests released “Mother,” a cover of the 1988 song by Danzig today! The single, available only via Amazon Music, follows on the heels of the trio’s second full-length record, The Seduction of Kansas, which dropped in April. Priests next perform at 9:30 Club on Saturday, June 15.

Vote: What Is the Best in DC for 2018?

Posted on 11/26/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Around Town, Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, All Things Go, All Things Go Fall Classic, awards program, Bacchae, Bat Fangs, best of dc, best of the year, Black Cat, Broke Royals, City Winery, DC Music Rocks, DC Music Rocks Festival, DC9, Funk Parade, Kingman Island, Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival, Loi Loi, Park Snakes, Pearl Street Warehouse, Priests, ShamrockFest, Sol Roots, The Anthem, Thrushie Awards, Tiny Cat Dark Music Festival, Union Stage.

A wood thrush! (Photo by Trish Gussler)

Parklife DC will honor DC bands and venues with our inaugural awards program, named for our new mascot, DC’s own state bird — the Wood Thrush. Our Thrushie Awards are inspired by our mission to review live music concerts.

Poll: Who Is the Best Local Band in DC?

Posted on 11/21/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged awards program, Bacchae, Bat Fangs, best band, best of dc, Broke Royals, local band, Loi Loi, Park Snakes, Priests, Sol Roots, Thrushie Awards.

Welcome to the 2018 Thrushie Awards! Parklife DC will name the best local band of the year with your input. Vote for the best DC band now through Dec. 1.

Now, we fully realize that there will be a lot of strong opinions about our list, and we readily confess that we could review even more local bands next year. But for now, our poll is limited to bands reviewed by Parklife DC in the last year. As this is our inaugural year for the Thrushie Awards, we sought to keep this list short.

Snapshots: Religious Figures @ Black Cat — 4/4/18

Posted on 04/09/2018 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged Black Cat, Gideon Jaguar, Katie Greer, Ought, post-punk, Priests, punk, surf rock.

Katie Alice Greer fronts Priests at Black Cat on April 4, 2018. (Photo by Mickey McCarter)

What’s a band to do when their friends Ought are in town from Montreal? Why perform with them of course. But if you are DC’s own Priests, you may not want to steal any thunder, so you might perform under a pseudonym.

So Priests performed incognito as “Religious Figures,” opening Ought at Black Cat on Wednesday. (See our Parklife DC review of Ought!)

Music Park: Top 10 Concerts of 2017 by David

Posted on 12/26/2017 by David LaMason in Live Review and tagged A Giant Dog, Algiers, Beach Slang, Black Cat, DC9, folk, Future Islands, Guided by Voices, Japandroids, Lee Ranaldo, new wave, of Montreal, Ottobar, Priests, punk, Rainer Maria, Rams Head Live, Rock and Roll Hotel, Steve Gunn, top 10.

Lee Ranaldo kicks off a year of great music at the Rock and Roll Hotel on Jan. 20, 2017. (Photo by David LaMason)

The year 2017 has been full of contradictions. For many, myself included, it was a year filled with uncertainty and frustration, but to a certain degree it also woke people up. And the music that was created was some of the best in years.

Music Park: Priests @ 9:30 Club — 12/1/17

Posted on 12/04/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Ben Eisendrath, Daniele Daniele, Gideon Jaguar, Katie Greer, post-punk, Priests, punk, surf rock.

Katie Alice Greer fronts Priests at 9:30 Club on Dec. 1, 2017. (Photo by Ben Eisendrath /Instagram+Twitter: Insomnigraphic/GrillworksBen)

From the opening moments of “Appropriate” by Priests at 9:30 Club on Friday, the very full house could tell this was a different sort of Priests show.

Ticket Giveaway: Priests @ 9:30 Club, 12/1/17

Posted on 11/22/2017 by Mickey McCarter in Live Review and tagged 9:30 Club, Daniele Daniele, free tickets, Gideon Jaguar, Katie Greer, post-punk, Priests, punk, surf rock, Taylor Mulitz, ticket giveaway.

Priests (Photo courtesy Pitch Perfect PR)

DC quartet Priests have been winning the world in recent years. And so now it’s only fitting the DC punk darlings will play their first headlining show at mecca 9:30 Club on Friday, Dec. 1 after a world tour celebrating their first full-length album, Nothing Feels Natural, via their own Sister Polygon Records. You can win tickets to see Priests with Parklife DC.