Soft rock had such a grip on mainstream music fans in the 1970s. I can see why. Soft rock took all the best elements of rock music and injected vulnerable emotions into them. The following soft rock ...

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...

When One Direction’s Harry Styles performed on “Saturday Night Live” in mid-April, he premiered a brand-new song, “Ever Since New York.” Days prior to the performance, some facets of the 1D fan base ...

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 ...

Is there any more gentle genre of music than soft rock? The guitars were acoustic, their harmonies were pop and all breezes were summery. Soft rock is as inoffensive as it gets, all the better to ...

The mood will be melodic and mellow at Evanston SPACE, 1243 Chicago Ave, this Wednesday as Soft Opening takes the stage for a soothing evening of tunes.

THE BEST soft rock has always had a very hard centre. In its 1970s heyday it wasn’t the music of wine bars and drivetime playlists; it was the music of complicated emotions and adult lives. Think of ...

The gentle rise, fall, and revival of Seventies soft rock rolls along like a boat amongst the waves in the new trailer Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, arriving Nov. 29 on HBO. Directed by Garret Price, ...