When I first encountered iTunes, the wildly popular music app that allows fans to compile their own collections and digital library, I was agog. After 20 years of amassing music, I had more than 4,000 ...

WINNETKA — Nobody would mistake Steve Hall for Yanni. In fact, the bespectacled pianist looks a great deal like a banker--which is precisely what he was for 23 years before a midlife career change.

As a one-time disc jockey who played easy-listening music, I appreciate Mike Kerrigan’s “Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time” (op-ed, Feb. 29). He is right: The definition of easy listening has ...

If, like me, you spent an unfortunate amount of your young adult life digging through the record stacks at thrift stores, you probably realized it at some point: Nobody actually listened to Jimi ...

I relish Mike Kerrigan’s contributions (“Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time,” op-ed, Feb. 29). When I first heard the term “easy listening” applied to rock music, I couldn’t believe it. Rock is ...

Jacksonville's public radio station is filling the absence of easy-listening sounds on the radio since the November shift of Jones College Radio's AM and FM frequencies to Christian broadcasting.

NEW YORK — Johnny Mann, who won two Grammy Awards as leader of the clean-cut easy-listening vocal group the Johnny Mann Singers, died Wednesday at his home in Anderson, S.C. He was 85. The cause was ...

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 ...

“Bum bum bum bum-bum-bum bum bum / Bum bum-bum-bum bum bum,” sings 2nd Grade’s Peter Gill onomatopoetically on “Beat of the Drum,” the sixth track off the five-piece band’s new album, Easy Listening.