A No. 1 single the first time out is no small feat. That Player wasn’t able to follow up the success of “Baby Come Back” with another hit of that ilk is beside the point. That smash still looms large ...

“Don’t you hear that?” you might demand of a friend about a song you love. “That…feeling.” “Um, no,” they may well say. ”This song sucks.” Listening to music is a subjective experience. The fertilizer ...

Yacht rock was not a genre. In the '70s and '80s, nobody used that term. It's a retrospective thing -- a mid-'00s web comedy series that went viral enough to reclassify an entire era of American pop ...

We owe a debt to the women who dumped some of these soft rocking men, for t'was in the crucible of such heartache that these men, as brothers in Player, spawned the poignant but catchy "Baby Come Back ...