Steely Dan are definitely their own monumental idiosyncratic impossible-to-duplicate entity, but they've also felt important as part of a collective continuum -- a '70s band that reached out to a '50s ...

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 ...

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's Aja represented a defining moment in my young musical development; being a jazz-lover and serious student of music (drums/percussion), I had never imagined that a Rock-and-Roll album ...

It’s a good thing Steely Dan is a real band, because its story is too improbable for fiction. What are the odds that one of the most popular rock bands of the ‘70s would consist of two antisocial, ...

On its Rent Party Tour, Steely Dan has been playing a handful of its classic albums from start to finish. Led by singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker, the jazz-rock band is ...

Over the last several years, artists from Bruce Springsteen to Public Enemy have engaged in the lucrative and crowd-pleasing practice of performing their classic albums in concert, to varying degrees ...

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 ...