The Doobie Brothers Conjure That Old, Smooth Magic on Celebratory New Album. With a new batch of fans discovering classics like “Black Water” and “Listen to the Music,” the Rock & Roll ...

With a new batch of fans discovering classics like “Black Water” and “Listen to the Music,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers tell us about their first LP with Michael McDonald in nearly 40 years ...

YACHT ROCK – A DOCKUMENTARY: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?. The Gist: Back before YouTube, in the days of MySpace and Real Networks ...

Santana’s track featuring Rob Thomas turns 25 this week. Why is it still a rock blockbuster? By Rob Tannenbaum “To really appreciate ‘Smooth,’ you have to embrace how cheesy ‘Smooth ...

Yacht rock is not a real genre of music. It’s a label that was retroactively applied to a certain form of smooth, mellow ’70s and ’80s pop music, and it comes from a series of comedy videos ...

With shades and smooth tunes, yacht rock is about owning an attitude. “It’s more about the vibe than it is owning a yacht,” said Phillip Daniel, frontman of Yächtley Crëw, in a recent ...