The term “yacht rock” didn’t exist in the 1970s and early ’80s. Retroactively given to the music of The Doobie Brothers, Toto ...

Today’s playlist is one such opportunity. It features some of the aforementioned yacht rock luminaries alongside a few of the ...

Enter Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary. The new HBO film looks at the breezy musical stylings of bands that ruled the airwaves of ...

The web series Yacht Rock brought the style back in the public consciousness. It has never really left, as evidenced by the ...

As the ’70s progressed, a collection of studio musicians unknowingly created a new sound by combining high-level musicianship with pop songwriting. This new sound—with its polished production and ...

Was there really ever a genre called yacht rock? Prior to the 2005 online comedy series of the same name, what we now know of as yacht rock was simply soft rock, largely of the 1970s variety ...

A Dockumentary," now out on Max, explores the sub genre of jazz and R&B-inflected 1970s and early 1980s rock that was named decades after the fact.

The Doobie Brothers were a kickass rock and roll band, then Michael McDonald rolled in with his easy listening voice and ...

The HBO doc 'Yacht Rock' takes a fond, ironic look at how 1970s bands like Steely Dan, Toto and Christopher Cross found a new ...

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 Steely Dan, Michael McDonald and Christopher ...

“What a Fool Believes” was co-written by McDonald and Loggins, the latter of whom calls it “the quintessential yacht rock song of the era, for some reason. Still trying to figure that out.