When the 1970s rolled around, music fans craved something smoother than the hard-hitting rock dominating the airwaves. Soft ...

Soft rock is a subgenre that by its very name is easy to make fun of. It’s goopy. It’s sappy. It’s full of pianos and emotional longing. Now it’s gotten the documentary treatment on Paramount+. The ...

Air Supply emitting its natural soft-rock glow. As often happens when there’s absolutely nothing on TV, I recently found myself, inexplicably but not unhappily, trapped on a channel showing a ...

How does one describe yacht rock? The folks at MasterClass did a pretty good job. Essentially, it's a component of soft rock, adult contemporary, and Album-oriented rock (AOR) all rolled into one.

The radio station that once delivered the "beautiful music" is now delivering the hit music. WMEZ-FM 94.1, known for decades as Soft Rock 94.1 and beloved for its blend of soothing adult contemporary ...

When One Direction’s Harry Styles performed on “Saturday Night Live” in mid-April, he premiered a brand-new song, “Ever Since New York.” Days prior to the performance, some facets of the 1D fan base ...

Everybody’s a softie — well, almost everyone — when it comes to a fondness for the not-so-hard-hitting heyday of “soft rock,” which has a strong overlap with what’s come to be known and celebrated as ...

Lindsay Lou masterfully combines progressive Americana and folk with bluegrass roots. Celebrated singer-songwriter Lindsay Lou masterfully combines progressive Americana and folk with bluegrass roots.

Is there any more gentle genre of music than soft rock? The guitars were acoustic, their harmonies were pop and all breezes were summery. Soft rock is as inoffensive as it gets, all the better to ...

The Yacht Rock Revue is setting sail for the Jersey Shore. This weekend, they hit a hotspot that singer and guitarist Nick Niespodziani described as "the yachtiest setting" — the Stone Pony Summer ...