HBO’s “Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary” sets sail on the high seas of easy listening, covering a catalog of pop records produced in the ‘70s and ‘80s. The impossible-to-escape easy-listening soft rock ...

What is Yacht Rock? After watching the feature-length Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (Sky Documentaries), I still couldn’t tell you exactly. But I thoroughly enjoyed the programme anyway. We’re talking ...

Back in the 1960s pop climate, bubblegum hit pioneer Tommy Roe inadvertently dreamed up soft rock, for better or worse. Read ...

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The pop culture world can be an endless churn of regurgitated trends. This time around it’s the easy listening, soft rock by Kenny Loggins, Chris Cross, Steely Dan, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Phil ...

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 ...

Many of us love the music played by Sandy Davis Sunday mornings from 7 a.m. to noon on WOMT. Now there is similar music 24/7 on WEMP 98.9 FM. It is easy listening/soft rock and the station comes in ...

Sometimes When We Touch (Paramount+) is a three-episode docu series that explores soft rock, the super seventies genre of pop music that blended sensitive lyrics, feathered hair, and open-collar rayon ...