Easy-listening music and its maestros never had to worry about screaming teenage fans or long stadium tours. Ridiculed in the 1960s and since as “elevator music,” the gentle genre was marketed then as ...

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 ...

Indepth documentary about the story of easy listening a popular music that is often said to be made to be heard but not listened to The film looks at easy listenings architects and practitioners its ...

Co Tyrone singer Donna Taggart is topping the easy listening charts with the recent release of her video ‘Jealous of the Angels’ on Facebook. The video quickly went viral with 22 million views and ...

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 ...

Things have changed, as Bob Dylan sang, some years before he reached 70. As The Joy of Easy Listening pointed out, now that the passing decades have narrowed the great divide that used to exist ...

Bruno Mars is back with the velvety swooner, "The Romantic," his first solo album in a decade. Here's why it's worth a listen.

"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on instant messenger or the phone with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop culture ...

“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.