Whilst Steely Dan have made a career out of confusing people, one of their most misunderstood cuts is 'Bodhisattva' from 1973 ...

This interview originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. Steely Dan is a paradox. As writer Alex Pappademas puts it, it's a "cult band whose catalog ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mid-70s was the era for rock groups “doing too many things at once”. Yet Steely Dan stood apart from all of them. The musical ...

In the beginning, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker didn’t have much intention of being recording artists. They wanted to be songwriters. But none of the covering artists could do justice to their quirky ...

Whenever I see Steely Dan referenced anywhere, I experience a nonsensical jolt of recognition and identification, and never forget it. “Any Steely Dan come in?” the receptionists at a radio station ...