As is the case with many of Steely Dan’s songs, one can listen to “Kid Charlemagne” and have enough to focus on without ever paying attention to the lyrics. A listener can zero in on Paul Griffin’s ...
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 their rock songs with complex jazz harmonies, sophisticated chord ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...