Steely Dan started out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel Naked Lunch. By the time they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are more obsessed with these Seventies jazz-rock cynics than ever these days. As Pappademas writes, "Around 2020 an ongoing ...

If there's one thing Steely Dan fans love, it's trying to figure out the meaning behind Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's lyrics, which aren't always particularly...straightforward. Take, for example, ...

Expectations were high when Steely Dan's fifth album was released May 31, 1976. The Royal Scam featured the band's most cynical lyrics to date in its tales of outlaws, drug dealers and cheaters. While ...

Steely Dan wanted to make more complicated albums at one moment in time, but by the end of their career, they wanted to be ...

Not many bands are as reluctant to talk about their work as Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan, but when they do talk it's often brutal.

Prior to this Dan-sanctioned discovery, “The Second Arrangement” had only been available in low-quality bootlegs of questionable origin. Gary Katz, the band’s producer, told Expanding Dan that he ...

Steely Dan will make it’s classic fourth studio album, Katy Lied, available on vinyl for the first time in more than 40 years. The reissue of the 1975 album is scheduled to be released on January 31, ...

In 1978, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen was asked to develop a rock track for an upcoming comedy-drama directed by John A. Alonzo. Based on the film's storyline, Steely Dan released "FM (No Static at All)" ...

Turns out Aimee Mann didn’t look like a perfect fit to open for Steely Dan on the band’s twice-postponed summer tour — but not for the reason she initially suspected. Mann suggested it was sexism at ...

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and thus, it seems that a bunch of individuals within the rock community have been more open about expressing them lately. For example, renowned producer Steve ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius of ...