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 ...

Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter was always looking for ways that he could improve his music, even if that meant tweaking with songs that ...

Any Steely Dan guitarist needs to reach a certain level of musicianship, and Donald Fagen knew this guitarist had the sonic magic.

In pop music, Steely Dan’s hybrid of pop, jazz and R&B represents an artistic standard few can match. Steely Dan — the musical enterprise of songwriting team Walter Becker and Donald Fagen — hit its ...

Glance at the credits of any Steely Dan album, and you’ll see the names of some of the best musicians of the last six decades. You’ll also see numerous musicians who became famous outside of their ...

On their third album, Steely Dan got a little weirder, funnier, and more obscure. Pretzel Logic, released in 1974, is way out there much of the time, making the moments when Donald Fagen and Walter ...