easycore

Noun

1. Music that verges toward easy listening, or that is less hardcore than comparable styles.
   • […] the successful easycore DJs James and Martin Karminsky. - 1997, Dylan Jones, Ultra Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy Listening, page 18:
   • The uncanny ability of "easycore" artists to swoon us into special realms, especially ones deep in our hearts, is a major theme of "Ultra Lounge." But as the genre offers a vacation from despair, looming heartache often...
2. A pop punk subgenre that combines elements of metalcore, incorporating use of breakdowns, screams, major key progressions and riffs and synthesizers.
   • We have a forty-five minute slot, and the other bands are more easycore than we usually play with so there's a different crowd. - 2016, Jason Rossiter, March: A Good Man:
   • While a bevy of MySpace bands who used the word "easycore" as a self-descriptor to mark their poppy hardcore tastes, ADTR [A Day to Remember] make the rest of the pile seem like amateurs thanks to their laser-precise...