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 ...

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 ...

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 ...