“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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

I have a confession to make. I am a fan of yacht rock, that form of music often derided as soft rock or the province of yuppies and wimpy guys. And I especially love those kinds of songs that mix R&B, ...

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 ...