An uncertain tone and off-key performances undermine "Easy Listening," a half-baked indie effort that makes the least of a potentially nifty romantic-comedy concept. Writer-director Pamela Corkey ...

Easy-listening music and its maestros never had to worry about screaming teenage fans or long stadium tours. Ridiculed in the 1960s and since as “elevator music,” the gentle genre was marketed then as ...

“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.

If, like me, you spent an unfortunate amount of your young adult life digging through the record stacks at thrift stores, you probably realized it at some point: Nobody actually listened to Jimi ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first encountered iTunes, the wildly popular music app that allows fans to compile their own collections and digital library, I was agog. After 20 years of amassing music, I had more than 4,000 ...