Easy listening, hard lives - that seems to be the theme of this latest Top Ten. Every one of these smooth operators turns out to have a dark side and a self-destructive tendency towards midlife ...

The subgenre, Yacht Rock, is a relatively new term given to easy-listening older tunes of the 70s, 80s and 90s. HBO has now released the trailer for a new documentary in their Music Box series.

What we now know as easy listening evolved from the rhythmic syncopation of jazz, combined with the helpful invention of the electric microphone and demographic changes in the United States which ...