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

Steely Dan only released nine albums during their fantastic run. Remember there was a 20-year break in there that slowed them ...

Steely Dan's Walter Becker declared this one artist the greatest songwriter of all time, with the entire lineup of the rock ...

Steely Dan's 1976 song "Haitian Divorce," which appears on the classic album The Royal Scam, features a plot worthy of ...

The "yacht rock" label helped a new generation of listeners rediscover overlooked gems. But the music shouldn't be treated as ...

Steely Dan were misanthropic masters, but some songs overstepped the mark. Together, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen wrote ...

Apparently inspired by their ex-drummer Dijon Carruthers’ dalliances in the occult, Megadeth’s Black Friday nonetheless ...

The undeniable winner here is the minor pentatonic scale, proving its versatility by forming the backbone of solos in both ...

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 ...

The label “yacht rock” came much later thanks to a comedy series of short films by J.D. Ryznar and Steve Huey, who currently ...

Dino Perrucci Over the holiday weekend, The Capitol Theatre gave thanks to the jam community with a pair of co-headline ...