Archive for Music

What’s the Meaning Behind Lady Gaga’s New Video?

Jun 14, 2010 6 Comments by admin

(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.

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U2 360

Jun 10, 2010 3 Comments by admin

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 [...]

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The Time is Now

Mar 30, 2010 2 Comments by admin

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.

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Anthea Butler on Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson

Jun 26, 2009 No Comments

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, [...]

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R.I.P. K.o.P.

Jun 25, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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21st Century Breakdown: Green Day’s Operatic Follow-up to American Idiot

Jun 08, 2009 2 Comments

The middle-aged boys of Green Day continue they’re singular positions as composers of punk opera, as explained in this review from Richard Lindsay. 

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No Line on the Horizon Review

Apr 03, 2009 1 Comment

Pop Theology contributor Richard Lindsay reviews U2’s latest album, No Line on the Horizon.

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Old Time Rock-n-Roll?

Aug 15, 2008 1 Comment

This just in from occasional, and hopefully more frequent, poptheology contributor, Richard Lindsay.

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All About the Music?

Aug 03, 2007 No Comments

A couple of months ago, Alan Ackridge, a friend and youth minister in North Carolina, shared a brief post on spirituality and contemporary popular music. He gave a list of his favorite spiritual songs, only a few of which were actually performed by specifically Christian artists. I have long been suspect of “Christian [...]

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Happy Easter

Apr 08, 2007 8 Comments

On the way home from Easter service just a moment ago, I heard a second great sermon on the radio. One of San Francisco’s better radio stations, KFOG, sounded as if it were playing some Easter-themed music on their Accoustic Sunrise set. We caught a new song by Sarah McLachlan called “Ordinary Miracle,” [...]

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