The mood will be melodic and mellow at Evanston SPACE, 1243 Chicago Ave, this Wednesday as Soft Opening takes the stage for a soothing evening of tunes.

Building on the folk-singer-songwriter phase of the ’60s, the 1970s rock scene began to take on a softer edge. This would, rather uninventively, become known as “soft rock.” The ’70s would be rife ...

Soft rock was much more common in the 1970s than it is today, and that’s a shame. There’s something so soothing, relaxed, and musically interesting about soft rock from the latter half of the 20th ...

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 ...