Jim Seals, the gracious, soft-spoken soft rocker born in Sidney, Texas, died of unknown causes on Monday. He was eighty years old. He is survived by his wife, Ruby; their three kids, Joshua, Juliet, ...

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 ...

After Mary J. Blige grew up listening to Elton John on soft-rock radio, she got the Rocket Man to play piano on her 1999 track "Deep Inside." She may be the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, but Mary J. Blige ...

Soft rock is a little hard to define. In general, one could say it’s simply a form of rock music that focuses more on lyrical content and melody over the “harshness” of hard rock’s instrumentation. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...