When the 1970s rolled around, music fans craved something smoother than the hard-hitting rock dominating the airwaves. Soft ...

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 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 ...

In 1997, Blur, one of Britpop’s giants, released its biggest single, “Song 2”. The irony being that it sounded like an American record. Oasis continued with Britpop on Be Here Now, the same year, and ...

Eric Carmen, the Cleveland rocker who pioneered power pop as the lead singer of the Raspberries and later found solo success with such soft-rock standards as “All By Myself” and “Hungry Eyes,” has ...

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 ...

Soft rock songs can’t rock hard, can they? I mean, the name says they can’t. But if soft rock has taught us anything, it’s that you don’t always need volume to be impactful. Rock’s lighter side often ...