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 ...

Revisit three songs from 1969 that set the precedent for soft rock. These songs, more or less, built an entire sub-genre.

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 ...

It was the era of free love and flower power. It was the 1960s in America and folk music, sit-ins, bell-bottoms, long hair and two-finger peace signs were all the rage. In the decade prior, Elvis ...

Led Zeppelin rose as perhaps the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their mix of blues, psychedelic rock, and folk gave the world one of its first great heavy bands ...

A study suggested that music interacts with the brain and body. Soft music, for example, might calm the nervous system. By ...

K-pop girl groups are known to ace a number of concepts and music genres. Every now and then, they take listeners completely by surprise with the most feminine and adorable songs to drastically ...

Another year has come and gone and that includes The FADER's annual lists of our favorite albums and songs. While compiling our 2024 selections, we suddenly had the thought of wanting to know what our ...

Rihanna’s first album, Music of the Sun, was a success. It included two popular singles: “Pon de Replay” and “If It’s Lovin’ that You Want.” These singles both drew influence from Caribbean music, ...