NEW YORKNEW YORK — Music played softly, almost imperceptibly, in the background of a hotel lounge where Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello talked about their songwriting collaboration, “Painted From ...

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 ...

So IDC how cynical or single you are—you’ve gotta admit that great love songs slap no matter what. A happy love ballad is like a rom-com for your ears, and even if you’re v much not about ~luv~ rn, ...