We love a heavy rock song as much as anyone else, but no one can deny the enticing pull of a soft rock hit every now and then. In the ’70s, rockers began to experiment with pop sensibilities. The end ...

If there was ever an oxymoron to rival the famous examples of "jumbo shrimp," "deafening silence," or open secret," it's the term for one of the worst of all music genres: soft rock. I mean, what is ...

Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician “Dash” Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as “Summer Breeze,” “Diamond Girl” and “We May Never Pass This Way (Again),” has died at age 80. His death was ...

Subtitled “The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s,” Greg Prato’s The Yacht Rock Book aims to be the definitive document of a genre that has reemerged in the music public’s ...

DETROIT - One of the most prestigious instrumental ensembles in the country is doing numerous pop culture concerts this summer. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s summer programming will include ...

Some bands become legends in their own time. The Soft Boys are not one of them. In fact, they had to wait 20 years to enjoy the fact that their witty, neo-psychedelic pop has become a vital reference ...

Based on its late-'90s assemblages of samba, lounge jazz and soundtrack music, Thievery Corporation is still known as a "down-tempo" act. But the formerly studio-bound duo's music has intensified as ...