A reductive term, or useful shorthand for the band's polished sound? Donald Fagen refuses the term with prejudice, while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People are more obsessed with these Seventies jazz-rock cynics than ever these days. As Pappademas writes, "Around 2020 an ongoing ...

The Steely Dan song was released in 1976.

Forty-nine years ago, soft rock band Steely Dan released "Deacon Blues"—a song that became a career-defining masterpiece despite never reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Steely Dan are a band who were never afraid to experiment with their music and lyrics, but sometimes this didn't pay off.

Steely Dan fused jazz with rock and soul in a way that influenced many bands that followed in their footsteps. While Walter and Donald parted ways in 1981, they re-formed the Dan in 1993 and returned ...

His friend and fellow comedian John Mulaney described how it all went down while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. As Mulaney describes in the video below, he attended ...

In 1972 or 1973 Steely Dan recorded a jingle for use in a Schlitz Beer commercial. While the band submitted the 110-second song to the advertising company in charge of the campaign, the jingle never ...

Phish's Trey Anastasio paid tribute to Steely Dan on Thursday at the band's Songwriters Hall of Fame induction, taking the lead on a medley of two of their beloved hits. You can watch the performance ...

Little has been heard from Donald Fagen since Steely Dan played its last show to date in March 2024. That concert, at the United Center in Chicago, was part of a run of dates opening for the Eagles.

Steely Dan wasn’t always a studio-only jazz-rock outfit. The band originally had a full lineup. However, core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen ultimately decided to stop performing as a live act ...

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and thus, it seems that a bunch of individuals within the rock community have been more open about expressing them lately. For example, renowned producer Steve ...