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 ...

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 ...

Steely Dan is a perfect example of how jazz shapes rock music. From the 1970s onward, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker infused ...

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 ...

Steely Dan co-founder, guitarist and bassist Walter Becker died Sunday at the age of 67, leaving an extensive catalog of memorable hits. Here are a few of the band's most notable songs to remember him ...

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 ...

Interviewing Steely Dan is no easy task. Walter Becker and Donald Fagen turned messing with journalists into an art form back in the Seventies. Rolling Stone checked in with Becker and Fagen during ...

Donald Fagen led a crack band through Steely Dan's greatest hits Friday night at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Credit: Photo by David Clements Steely Dan was, and remains, an anomaly. More on ...

Even when they were earnest, they could be biting. Steely Dan's "Any Major Dude Will Tell You" is both snide and supportive.

When eagerly trying to break it in the music industry, Steely Dan's Donald Fagen and Walter Becker owed their luck to one ...

WILMINGTON — Steely Dead, a Colorado-based band fusing Steely Dan with the Grateful Dead, landed at LaGuardia Airport in Queens on Tuesday ahead of the Mad Hatter's Ball at Memorial Hall this weekend.

“Dirty Work” was the Steely Dan song that came to my mind when the band’s Donald Fagen announced that he planned to tour this year, mere months after the death last September of his longtime creative ...