This article was first published on All About Jazz on April 20, 2019. The website Really Smooth Music provides the definition of the term Yacht Rock as being "a variation of popular Soft Rock that ...

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has always had his finger on the pulse, and once rated a Steely Dan song, better than ...

David Crosby was a lifelong fan of Steely Dan, so for his last album, 'For Free', he collaborated with his musical hero, ...

Well into his 70s, Steely Dan cofounder Donald Fagen remains a contrarian. Along with the late guitarist and songwriter Walter Becker, Fagen wrote and sang some of the most biting and caustic lyrics ...

Unlike most bands, Steely Dan was never about a fixed lineup—it was an evolving soundscape masterminded by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. With a rotating cast of elite session musicians, meticulous ...

Steely Dan famously challenged their fans with their complex musical structures and occasionally opaque lyrics. “Hey Nineteen,” however, represented one of their more straightforward, catchier efforts ...

Issued 40 years ago this week, Steely Dan’s sixth studio album “Aja” is still a demarcation point for a great divide among rock listeners. The main bone of contention was picked at in Rolling Stone’s ...

Steely Dan are one of those bands you either love or hate. To some, they represent the highest peaks of songwriting and studio craft, with lyrical vignettes about lost souls and strange characters ...

A new book has taught me that I don’t mind a lack of clarity as much as I often suppose. It’s the weird and wondrous “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers and Other Sole Survivors From the Songs ...

Walter Becker, the co-founder of Steely Dan who was known for his acerbic wit and his proficient work with the guitar, has died. He was 67. As one of the key architects of Steely Dan, Becker and ...

Take the body of work of any Classic Rock band—or that of any other genre—and you’d be hard pressed to name a group with more characters of note than in the lyrics of Steely Dan. Dr. Wu. Mr. La Page, ...

Breaking news: The Eagles are a “good band.” This review is brought to you by Steely Dan leader Donald Fagen, who was interviewed by the Steely Dan Substack newsletter Expanding Dan recently. Why is ...