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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes When We Touch (Paramount+) is a three-episode docu series that explores soft rock, the super seventies genre of pop music that blended sensitive lyrics, feathered hair, and open-collar rayon ...

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 ...

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 records ...