This article was first published on All About Jazz on April 20, 2019. The website Really Smooth Music provides the definition of the term Yacht Rock as being "a variation of popular Soft Rock that ...

The song comes from the archive of Steely Dan's longtime engineer Roger Nichols Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co-founder ...

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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 ...

On September 3rd, 2017, the world lost another musical legend - Walter Becker, one-half of the duo that named themselves after a metallic sex toy from a William S. Burroughs novel, Steely Dan. Becker ...

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 ...

This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has noticed that there are a number of significant albums that are celebrating their 50th anniversary. And he's decided to devote a summer series to ...

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