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 ...

Soft rock often transcends its designated genre. Like the best popular music, soft rock encompasses a range of styles within its parameters, including pop, jazz, soul and more. As outlined in the list ...

If you're in a rotten mood or just yearn for the era of chill rock music, these rock songs from the 1970s will soothe your soul.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jim Seals, one half of 1970s soft-rock duo Seals and Crofts, has died at the age of 80, according to his family. Seals, together with musical partner Darrell “Dash” Crofts, was best known for hits ...

The thing about soft rock is that it was never an exclusive genre. Cross-pollinating among pop, rock, country rock and, especially, adult contemporary music of the day, the best soft rock records ...