We tend to think of Steely Dan as a sophisticated band that played cerebral music, and that’s certainly true. But that didn’t preclude them from being a force on the pop charts in their heyday. Ten ...

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 ...

Steely Dan's 'Barrytown' is named after a small hamlet in New York, that homes just 100 people. But what inspired the band to ...

Since reforming in the early 1990s, the Eagles have landed in New Orleans at least a half-dozen times. The most recent was in November 2022, when they performed the entire “Hotel California” album ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. “Third World Man,” the last song on Steely Dan’s 1980 ...

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 ...

With apologies to The Big Lebowski and the Dude’s disdain for the Eagles, no 1970s American rock band is as polarizing as Steely Dan. Movie dialogue and sitcom quips have expressed the competing ...

During Steely Dan‘s 1979 sessions for Gaucho, what would be the final album of their original run, a song titled “The Second Arrangement” was accidentally erased from the master tapes. These were the ...

Somewhere in the sleepy suburbs of Philadelphia, a 23-year-old jokester is committed to a bit that will either make you laugh, get you to sing along, utterly baffle you, or all three. None of that’s ...