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

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 ...

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 ...

From left: Jim Hodder, Walter Becker, Denny Dias, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan in 1973. Alex Pappademas' incisive new book, "Quantum Criminals," deconstructs the band, its lyrics ...

Ask any two music fans what qualifies as yacht rock, and an argument is sure to ensue. Does Steely Dan count? (Absolutely.) ...

Steely Dan’s long lost song "The Second Arrangement" has surfaced online. The track, recorded in December 1979 while the band was laying down material for their 1980 album Gaucho, has long held a kind ...

On their third album, Steely Dan got a little weirder, funnier, and more obscure. Pretzel Logic, released in 1974, is way out there much of the time, making the moments when Donald Fagen and Walter ...

Like many artists in the 1970s, Steely Dan rose to prominence while following in the footsteps of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles were a source of ...

With apologies to The Big Lebowski and the Dude’s disdain for the Eagles, no 1970s American rock band is as polarizing as Steely Dan. Movie dialogue and sitcom quips have expressed the competing ...