Steely Dan’s smooth grooves often helped to mask acerbic lyrical sentiments. In the case of their 1978 single “FM (No Static at All),” they managed to take some subtle jabs at the radio format that ...

There’s no story anywhere in music like Steely Dan. The Seventies jazz-rock masterminds have gone in and out of style over the years, but they’ve never been more popular, more influential, more of a ...

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 ...

This interview originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. Steely Dan is a paradox. As writer Alex Pappademas puts it, it's a "cult band whose catalog ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co-founder ...