Issued 40 years ago this week, Steely Dan’s sixth studio album “Aja” is still a demarcation point for a great divide among rock listeners. The main bone of contention was picked at in Rolling Stone’s ...

Steely Dan are definitely their own monumental idiosyncratic impossible-to-duplicate entity, but they've also felt important as part of a collective continuum -- a '70s band that reached out to a '50s ...

Steely Dan started out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel Naked Lunch. By the time they ...

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 ...

It’s a good thing Steely Dan is a real band, because its story is too improbable for fiction. What are the odds that one of the most popular rock bands of the ‘70s would consist of two antisocial, ...

The Darcys are an art rock band from Toronto whom I’ve just discovered thanks to a message from someone on Twitter mentioning that the band had just covered Steely Dan’s 1977 masterpiece, Aja. Now ...

On its Rent Party Tour, Steely Dan has been playing a handful of its classic albums from start to finish. Led by singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker, the jazz-rock band is ...

Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but throughout their catalog, seem to be ...