Steely Dan’s sophisticated jazz pop fourth album, 1975’s Katy Lied, with such standouts as “Black Friday,” “Bad Sneakers” and “Doctor Wu,” will return to vinyl for the first time in more than forty ...

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen met as teenagers at Bard College in upstate New York in 1967, and their shared enthusiasm for ...

Steely Dane will return to Thrasher Opera House at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25. The Madison-based tribute band performs music ...

Steely Dan were never a conventional rock band with a stable lineup and predictable formula. Led by Donald Fagen and Walter ...

A fan-voted ranking crowned one of Steely Dan’s smoothest cuts, “Hey Nineteen,” among the greatest yacht rock songs of the ...

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 ...

Expectations were high when Steely Dan's fifth album was released May 31, 1976. The Royal Scam featured the band's most cynical lyrics to date in its tales of outlaws, drug dealers and cheaters. While ...

In this semi-regular column, Steven Hyden follows up on his book and podcast to discuss rivalries involving musical artists both historic and contemporary. This weekend, I will do something I swore I ...

Prior to this Dan-sanctioned discovery, “The Second Arrangement” had only been available in low-quality bootlegs of questionable origin. Gary Katz, the band’s producer, told Expanding Dan that he ...

It’s been almost 40 years since Rolling Stone dubbed Steely Dan “the perfect musical antiheroes of the Seventies” in assessing the band’s sixth album Aja. But while the Walter Becker and Donald ...

Steely Dan - that band's debut album in 1972 fused together jazz, rock guitar, drums, keys. And they just created this sound. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DO IT AGAIN") STEELY DAN: (Singing) In the morning, ...