Dave "Koko" Lyons, center, and Hunter "Messina" Stair regale some young women with tales of smooth-music adventures in 'Yacht Rock.' The viral Internet series celebrates its 10th anniversary. In the ...
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 early ...
This special episode of Yacht Rock had it's west coast premiere at Channel 101's January 2008 Screening. Jimmy Buffet and the story of "Footloose." Enjoy!
It’s hard to believe that the online series “Yacht Rock” is now 10 years old. But Rolling Stone’s (deliriously overlong, yet still somehow incomplete) “oral history” of the show recently made me aware ...
As music critic and writer Steve Huey once explained, “from 1976 to 1984, the radio airwaves were dominated by really smooth music.” Once known as soft rock, since the mid-2000s pretty much everyone ...
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 ...
In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.
Yacht rock isn’t about flaunting a fancy boat. 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 ...