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 ...

The release of The Royal Scam will bring to a close a reissue campaign that sees the return of Steely Dan’s first seven studio albums to vinyl. The initiative, which has been overseen by frontman ...

Steely Dan didn't often put a foot wrong during their career, but there was one early song that Donald Fagen was reluctant to have in their discography.

Donald Fagen’s band for this includes Jon Herington (guitar), Keith Carlock (drums), Freddie Washington (bass), Jim Beard (keyboards), a four-piece horn section and three backup vocalists. You may ...

Fagen got on the phone with Variety to discuss the impetus behind releasing the two records, how he feels about continuing to tour as Steely Dan after Becker’s death, when he expects to return to the ...

Steely Dan announced today they will be going on tour this fall up the East Coast of the United States for their Absolutely Normal Tour 2021. The tour will kick off in Miami and make its way up ...

Older pop music fans who cut their teeth in the 1970s and '80s received two presents recently as veteran acts delivered the goods with gusto. Annie Lennox, former lead singer of The Eurythmics, ...

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 ...

Yet Steely Dan stood apart from all of them. The musical alter-ego of bookish New Yorkers Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, with their broad musical palette, didn’t really fit in anywhere.

Steely Dan nominally kept that lineup intact for Pretzel Logic, but their 1974 album began the shift from a five-piece band to a band in name only. From Pretzel Logic on forward, Steely Dan was a ...