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 ...

Kalapana is finally getting its close-up on PBS Hawaiʻi’s Nā Mele, half a century after the Honolulu band turned soft-rock ...

After Mary J. Blige grew up listening to Elton John on soft-rock radio, she got the Rocket Man to play piano on her 1999 track "Deep Inside." She may be the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, but Mary J. Blige ...

Ahead of the full reveal on Dec. 9 -- after The Billboard 2025 No. 1s Livestream, hosted by Druski -- check out a pair of ...

These four bands helped define hard rock in the 70s. But these songs showed that they could slow it down quite well.

In 1997, Blur, one of Britpop’s giants, released its biggest single, “Song 2”. The irony being that it sounded like an American record. Oasis continued with Britpop on Be Here Now, the same year, and ...

Revivals of long-gone genres are nothing unexpected. Even awkward, pretentious prog rock emerged from its attic hiding place some time Revivals of long-gone genres are nothing unexpected. Even awkward ...

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 ...

Soft Rock 106.5 (WBMW) has announced longtime Connecticut radio personality Joan Dylan joins the station as the new midday ...