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 has called it Yacht Rock.

HBO has unveiled the new trailer for an upcoming documentary — or rather, dockumentary — about the emergence, popularity, and impact of the yacht rock sub-genre. Officially titled Music Box: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, the film will sail home on November 29th. Watch the trailer below.

A Dockumentary” (not a typo there — though we don’t love the dual colons), directed by Garret Price (“Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage”) and executive produced by Bill Simmons ( “Andre The Giant” ),

The rise, fall, and resurgence of Seventies soft rock is chronicled in the new trailer for the upcoming film, 'Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary.'

Take a peek into the upcoming HBO Documentary Films production, “Yacht Rock,” which chronicles the rise of West Coast soft rock in pop culture, highlighting artists like Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan and more.