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, ...

During Steely Dan‘s 1979 sessions for Gaucho, what would be the final album of their original run, a song titled “The Second Arrangement” was accidentally erased from the master tapes. These were the ...

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.

Pretzel Logic is also the album that established Steely Dan as serial hitmakers in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. Can’t Buy a Thrill produced two popular singles in “Do It Again” (No. 6 on the Billboard Hot ...

Steely Dan produced seven albums during their classic run in the 1970s, but critics disagree about the goodness of 1976's 'The Royal Scam.' ...

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 ...

Watch a producer discover Aja by Steely Dan for the first time and break down its incredible musicianship and production.

There’s no band out there quite like Steely Dan. This jazz rock fusion outfit was called “musical antiheroes of the seventies” for good reason. That being said, choosing their very best songs is no ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

At the start of the pandemic, Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen joked to Rolling Stone that he was spending quarantine “hangin’ tight in the Apple, baby, gargling Clorox under a sunlamp.” Luckily it turns out ...