The new HBO film Yacht Rock: a Dockumentary looks at the sometimes mocked, often misunderstood genre of music called yacht rock, focusing on a prominent group of white musicians who borrowed from ...

What is Yacht Rock? After watching the feature-length Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (Sky Documentaries), I still couldn’t tell you exactly. But I thoroughly enjoyed the programme anyway. We’re ...

A comedic web series about the fictionalized highs and lows of McDonald (and his pop musical peers from the late 1970s and early ’80s) gave the music a name: yacht rock. HBO’s “Yacht Rock ...

If you’ve ever plumbed the placid seas of yacht rock — that distinct style of jazz-influenced soft pop and rock that surfaced in Southern California in the late Seventies — you know it’s ...

“Beatles ‘64″ has the higher profile, but “Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary” has the funnier subtitle. That would be true even if the Beatles documentary actually had a subtitle. “Beatles ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ask any two music fans what qualifies as yacht rock, and an argument is sure to ensue. Does Steely Dan count? (Absolutely.) What about Hall & Oates? (No, too East Coast.) In the late 1970s and ...

People responded to Cross' tale of an alleged murderer's hopeful escape, possibly because of its smooth-driving sound with iconic background vocals by yacht rock legend Michael McDonald.

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 ...