Steely Dan combined rock, jazz and funk in “Kid Charlemagne,” a single off the band’s 1976 album, The Royal Scam. Written by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, the song alludes to figures in the drug ...

Today is the 10th anniversary of Kanye West’s Graduation. Like just about every Kanye record, his neon-glowing third album is packed with a deliriously diverse set of samples: Can, Elton John, Michael ...

The release of The Royal Scam will bring to a close a reissue campaign that sees the return of Steely Dan’s first seven studio albums to vinyl. The initiative, which has been overseen by frontman ...

I saw hundreds of concert sets in 2011. With respect to Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Eisley at Bamboozle, the Throne, and Freddie Gibbs, the very best of them was Steely Dan at the Beacon Theatre. They ...

It’s been a busy week for Trey Anastasio. On Sunday, the Phish guitarist joined Billy Joel onstage at his penultimate Madison Square Garden residency show. On Thursday, he stopped by another New York ...

Steely Dan is a perfect example of how jazz shapes rock music. From the 1970s onward, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker infused ...

about half the reason nice middle-class white folks shit themselves in the ’60s (the half that was not related to civil rights for African-Americans), it will help you to remember that Augustus Owsley ...