“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.

As a one-time disc jockey who played easy-listening music, I appreciate Mike Kerrigan’s “Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time” (op-ed, Feb. 29). He is right: The definition of easy listening has ...

Quickly, Quickly has announced a new EP; Easy Listening arrives May 26 via Ghostly International. The record from Portland, Oregon, artist Graham Jonson includes lead single “Satellite,” which you can ...

I relish Mike Kerrigan’s contributions (“Easy Listening = Alternative Music + Time,” op-ed, Feb. 29). When I first heard the term “easy listening” applied to rock music, I couldn’t believe it. Rock is ...

Easy listening, a popular music genre of soothing vocal and instrumental sounds that first appeared in the 1940s, or also sometimes called "elevator music," hit the K-pop scene this year. In a ...

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 ...

Jacksonville's public radio station is filling the absence of easy-listening sounds on the radio since the November shift of Jones College Radio's AM and FM frequencies to Christian broadcasting.

K-pop is constantly evolving, shifting from heavily conceptual themes to more accessible, easy-listening songs that resonate with the new generation. The easy-listening era kicked off with the arrival ...

Short-form content and everyday relatability drive generational shift in music market; physical album sales decline by 17 percent Easy listening music has surged in popularity among Korean music ...