Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but throughout their catalog, seem to be ...
While reading the many fine tributes written over the weekend for Steely Dan’s Walter Becker — who died Sunday at age 67 — I noticed two common threads. The first is that people have been eulogizing ...
Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter was always looking for ways that he could improve his music, even if that meant tweaking with songs that ...
20 years ago today, Steely Dan—the godfathers of yacht rock and ancestors of sleaze—released Everything Must Go, a project that would become their ninth and final album. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker ...
A previously unreleased Steely Dan cover of Joni Mitchell’s Blue song “Carey” has been unearthed. As The Dan Vault‘s YouTube channel points out, the radio host Steve Acri played the track on ...
That most notoriously unsentimental of bands, Steely Dan, are coming back to North Texas. (Well, the North Texas area. Kind of.) Comprised essentially of two men, singer Donald Fagen and guitarist ...
Take, for instance, New York-based soft rock group Infinity Song, who perform at Music Box on Nov. 15. With a sound that’s ...
Glance at the credits of any Steely Dan album, and you’ll see the names of some of the best musicians of the last six decades. You’ll also see numerous musicians who became famous outside of their ...
Steely Dan were aways getting great artists in the studio with them, and some of them can be heard providing backing vocals ...
To prepare for their current tour, Steely Dan had to relearn their own music. The band will perform one of three albums "Aja," "Gaucho" or "The Royal Scam" in its entirety on select dates of their ...
Somewhere in the sleepy suburbs of Philadelphia, a 23-year-old jokester is committed to a bit that will either make you laugh, get you to sing along, utterly baffle you, or all three. None of that’s ...