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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 ...
Soft rock is a creature of the 1970s, often derided as insipid, saccharine, and soul-killing. Yet, many of us secretly sing along to songs like “Tiny Dancer,” “All Out of Love,” and “Baby Come Back.” ...
The Grammy-nominated Los Angeles imprint Omnivore couldn’t have foreseen the coming COVID-19 coronavirus when it commissioned a trio of soft-ish rock releases by America, Andrew Gold and the ...
The DSO is also doing concerts featuring music from the 1989 "Batman" film and Disney's animated "The Lion King." ...
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+ has set a January premiere date for a three-part documentary series on the subgenre known as "soft rock." Soft-Rock Doc, ‘Sometimes When We Touch,’ Is Coming to Paramount+ ...
Soft rock was never the right description, though. “Soft” implies insubstantial. But the music goes hard in it’s own way, and maybe what it really needed was the kind of rebrand that ...
Country music’s love affair with rock music has been an open secret for a long time, but now that lyrics sport influences like concert T-shirts, the honky-tonk has gone heavy.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube. 3. Steely Dan: “Peg” The documentary touches on one of the more hotly debated philosophical questions of this genre: Is Steely Dan yacht rock?