If there’s an article about music on Pop Theology, you know Richard Lindsay has written it.  Check out his review of an interesting project by singer/songwriter Bryan McFarland, a musician who is singing to combat hunger.

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay offers a review of Eminem’s new album, Recovery.  It’s the first review of a rap album here at Pop Theology.  Let’s see how it goes after the jump.

(Hint: There is none.) Frequent Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay offers his take on the music video for Lady Gaga’s new song, “Alejandro,” after the jump.  You can view the video here on the Pop Theology home page.

If any of you, like me, had tickets to U2′s second leg of their American 360 tour, then you were sorely disappointed to hear about the cancellation due to Bono’s surgery.  Yet, last week’s release of their DVD, U2 360 at the Rose Bowl, the recording of last Fall’s record-setting concert, should help ameliorate that [...]

Recent Pop Theology contributor and self-proclaimed Bare Naked Ladies addict (seriously, we need to conduct an intervention), Jessica Margrave Schirm, reviews their latest album, All in Good Time, which releases today.

Religion Dispatches has an interesting article up this morning entitled “When the Gods Die:  Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett Take the 70s With Them” by Anthea Butler.  Butler is Assistant Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester and teaches in the areas of African American religious history, American religious history, and women and gender [...]

Unless you’re working the night shift and have just woken up for work, you probably already know that Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed King of Pop, died earlier this afternoon of a heart attack.  Since his passing, the cable news networks have been debating his place in music history:  who is greater Elvis, The Beatles, or [...]