Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #popandrock, aggregated by home.social.
Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
By Alexis Petridis
Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogue
#FontainesDC #Culture #Music #Popandrock #Indie #Punk #TheGuardian #AlexisPetridis
Freddie Jackson, romantic US singer with 10 R&B chart-toppers, dies aged 70
By Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Celebrated for his earnest, dextrous voice, Jackson crossed into the pop charts with the hits Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake) and You Are My Lady
#Music #Popandrock #RB #Culture #USnews #Soul #Worldnews #TheGuardian #BenBeaumontThomas
Freddie Jackson, romantic US singer with 10 R&B chart-toppers, dies aged 70 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/07/freddie-jackson-romantic-us-singer-with-10-r-and-b-chart-toppers-dies-aged-70 #Music #PopAndRock #Rb #Culture #UsNews #Soul #WorldNews
‘Men are a scam!’ The trials of Danielle Ponder, the lawyer turned singer rooting for a better world
By Iman Amrani
After representing society’s dispossessed, Ponder started a music career in her 40s – then faced miscarriage, anxiety and more. She explains her survival instinct
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/07/danielle-ponder-lawyer-turned-singer-interview
#Music #Popandrock #Soul #Culture #Miscarriage #Women #TheGuardian #ImanAmrani
The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/06/african-music-afrobeats-tyla #PopAndRock #Music #Africa #Culture
The west has a blinkered view of African music – and it’s hurting the whole continent’s culture
By Chibuzo Emmanuel
The term Afrobeats is applied to all sorts of genres, flattening them into one. Artists, media and the music industry must do better at showing off the richness of African pop
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/06/african-music-afrobeats-tyla
#Popandrock #Music #Africa #Culture #TheGuardian #ChibuzoEmmanuel
Olivia Dean review – a powerful, affirming night with a pop star at the height of her powers
By Brodie Lancaster
Rod Laver Arena, MelbourneThe singer’s first stop on her Australian and NZ tour is a fun but sincere demonstration of the power of pop to get at what love’s all about
#OliviaDean #Music #Culture #Melbourne #Popandrock #TheGuardian #BrodieLancaster