10 Perfect Soft Rock Music Albums Of The '80s Masterclasses in a lighter sound from the decade of greed.

REO Speedwagon were a staple of super-squishy soft rock in the 80s, and I guess they were among the pioneers of high-concept music videos. But yeesh. I had never fully realized how skin-crawling ...

Yacht Rock is so popular that one of the genre's top bands, Yachtley Crew, will play three days of Bourbon & Beyond 2025.

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 ...

Tracking the unlikely trajectory of the soft rock genre, "Sometimes When We Touch" examines the meteoric rise of the pop subsection in the '70s, its crash in the '80s, and eventual unlikely comeback.

For all the ground-breaking power pop Cheap Trick delivered during the 1970s, the band got into full 80s mode with "The Flame," a cheesy soft rock anthem that went all the way to No. 1. 71.

“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad. And we had a great one”: How a soft rock classic was created advertisement MusicRadar ...

John Mayer winks through his tears in the '80s-style pastiche 'Sob Rock,' finding the soft spot between MTV-era parody and pure earnestness.

You can rock. Even without a yacht. For folks who follow it, yacht rock brings back that breezy, soft-rock feeling epitomized by groups like Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins, the Doobie Brothers, Toto and ...

Jim Seals, who helped shaped 1970s soft rock as half of the duo Seals and Crofts, has died. He formed the outfit with Dash Crofts in the late 1960s, and the two toured and made breezy pop-rock ...

Jim Seals, who teamed with musician 'Dash' Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as 'Summer Breeze' and 'Diamond Girl,' has died at age 80.