A nonfiction music film based on a web series that was based on a joke, “Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary” isn’t really about a genre of music as much as it is a bunch of highly skilled musicians who helped ...

The smooth, sax-laden sounds of Michael McDonald and The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins, Christopher Cross and more are the subject of a new HBO documentary, Yacht Rock, which will hit the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Doobie Brothers were a kickass rock and roll band, then Michael McDonald rolled in with his easy listening voice and ruined ...

Only a fool believes that yacht rock is bad music. Trim up the outboard engines and just drift around for a bit — you’ve charted a course to the calm waters of yacht rock. HBO’s original documentary ...

NEW YORK — The stress of Thanksgiving is over. Now it’s time to heat up leftovers, relax on the couch and enjoy the smooth sounds of a wrongly mocked music genre: yacht rock. The late-’70s songs of ...

Jess Besack, who launched the Yacht Rock channel on SiriusXM, takes us through the classics ...

The film profiles the history of yacht rock, which first enjoyed popularity from the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. It featured jazz, R&B, and light-rock influences associated with, but not limited ...

One of rock’s most easygoing, gleefully teased and retrospectively celebrated subgenres will receive the feature-length treatment in HBO’s upcoming Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary. Although ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As with most irritants in life, I blame Lionel Richie. Of course, I am talking about the soft-rock genre of music labeled as Yacht ...

Garret Price reached out to the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to interview him about the genre for 'Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary' Ben Gabbe/Getty Donald Fagen in 2017. Some things are better left unsaid.

Language is a living and breathing organism. It ebbs and flows as generations come and go — holding up certain linguistic rules while discarding others as fresh slang and world events reshape our ...

“The Doobie Brothers were a kickass rock and roll band, then Michael McDonald rolled in with his easy listening voice and ruined everything.” That comment appears on a community page for guitar ...