Wall Street Journal

The Old ‘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 ...
Wall Street Journal

Rock Isn’t Easy Listening, It’s Hardly Even Music

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 ...
Paste

2nd Grade Marry Fun and Feeling on Easy Listening

“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.
Post-Bulletin

Easy listening for Christmas

The most popular record shop in town this Christmas season might be the one with the smallest inventory. Rochester radio station KNXR, that bastion of easy-listening music for the past 42 years, is ...