These days, a whole lot of American bands have their own takes on shoegaze, and Oakland’s Softie are among their number. Softie’s version of the genre is loose and hazy, with some of the shrugging ...

Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia double over laughing on separate Zoom screens when Sbragia lifts Frog Baby, the unofficial mascot of the Softies, to the camera. A doe-eyed Kewpie doll head fixed to the ...

Great news for fans of the Nineties school of intimate indie rock: The Softies are back, with their first album in 24 years. The legendary guitar duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia will release The ...

Sometimes you just need a hug, and that's exactly what The Softies' music feels like. Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia formed the band in the mid-'90s in Portland, Ore., and they released an EP and three ...

The Softies, the duo of Tiger Trap’s Rose Melberg and Pretty Face’s Jen Sbragia, started in 1994, when they released their Loveseat 7″. Over the years, the Softies developed their own hushed, ...

For the Softies, even 1994—the year of Frog Baby’s inception—doesn’t feel as long ago as it should. That’s when Melberg put her band Tiger Trap on pause, embarked on a solo tour with Elliott Smith, ...