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  • As worshippers take their seats, a full choir and band perform contemporary jazz and soft-rock Christian music, including such songs as “Trading My Sorrows” and “Only a God like You.”

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Rafferty, born in Glasgow, played with Billy Connolly's folk group The Humblebums before co-founding the soft-rock group Stealer's Wheel.

    "Baker Street" Singer Gerry Rafferty Dies at 63 2011

  • Gayngs: "No Scrubs" (P.O.S. Regrind) The soft-rock titans (and Bon Iver compatriots) turn the hip-hop collective Doomtree loose on their "Relayted" disc, re-imagined as "Affiliyated."

    Singles file: Britney Spears, Rico Love, Gayngs 2011

  • The soft-rock titans and Bon Iver compatriots turn the hip-hop collective Doomtree loose on their "Relayted" disc, re-imagined as "Affiliyated."

    Singles file: Britney Spears, Rico Love, Gayngs 2011

  • Hayley picks up Bill's limp soft-rock locks and lets them fall against his slightly greasy scalp.

    Grace Dent's TV OD: The Fairy Jobmother 2011

  • The show's songs range from the Bat Mitzvah party staple " Hava Nagila " to the Bette Midler soft-rock hit "From a Distance."

    The Language of Inspiration Lizzie Simon 2011

  • The scene culminates in Remillard's touching rendition of the soft-rock "Where Do I Go," an articulation of Claude's ambivalence toward overt defiance of the establishment.

    The wonderfully unruly 'Hair' is still a blowout 42 years after its Broadway debut Peter Marks 2010

  • Goodbye, slashing guitars, nasal chirps and any hint of traditional indie rock; hello, languid saxophone, tranquil cooing and soft-rock beats.

    Album review: Destroyer, "Kaputt" David Malitz 2011

  • In among all the Newsround Special-isms, it's easy to forget that the appeal of Glee in the first place wasn't just soft-rock anthems sung by improbably middle-aged teenagers but the barbed villainy of Sue Sylvester, who brought the acid with lines like, "I just prefer to think of the homeless as 'outdoorsy'."

    It's a good week for … Ryan Murphy 2011

  • Goodbye, slashing guitars, nasal chirps and any hint of traditional indie rock; hello, languid saxophone, tranquil cooing and soft-rock beats.

    Music review of Destroyer's 'Kaputt' album Post 2011

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