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 ...

Another long-lost Steely Dan track has finally been brought to light — this time, an early-'70s jingle written for the Milwaukee-based Schlitz Beer. You can listen to the track below. The Schlitz Beer ...

Steely Dan became unlikely hitmakers with their debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill, but they refused to retread familiar ground on their sophomore LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, released in July 1973.

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, ...

This essay originally appeared in Issue #4 of Paste Magazine in the fall of 2003, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. I must have been the summer of 1989 when my uncle foisted a ...

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 ...

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. Music obsessive that ...