Steely Dan

In rock music, there's been occasions where one act provokes another in a rock song, resulting in a retaliatory song by the provoked. Read More

You could call "Haitian Divorce" a love song, but as Steely Dan love songs go, it's not about the bliss so much as it's about the ugly side of romance. Read More

'AJA', the second in a trilogy of releases from Toronto artrockers The Darcys, is available for free download from today. Read More

When an Aja -loving friend heard that Toronto band The Darcys were releasing a track-by-track tribute to the classic Steely Dan record, he e-mailed me, " Aja … cannot be duplicated or reinterpreted…I couldn't think of a band that would be less appreciative of someone covering their material."Read More

"Green Earrings" has such a great, clavinet-laden groove to it, thanks to the Chuck Rainey/Pretty Purdie rhythm machine that keys up nearly every track on The Royal Scam , it doesn't need any close inspection to appreciate. Read More

William Gibson called them the most genuinely subversive" band in late-20th Century pop. Read More

With Levon Helm sidelined by an undisclosed medical procedure, his web site has announced that Donald Fagen of Steely Dan will be a special guest at previously scheduled Midnight Rambles on February 11, 18 and 25. Read More

With Levon Helm sidelined by an undisclosed medical procedure, his web site has announced that Donald Fagen of Steely Dan will be a special guest at previously scheduled Midnight Rambles on February 11, 18 and 25. Read More

Since 1999, Jon Herrington has served as the guitarist, both on tour and in recording, for the groundbreaking rock group Steely Dan. And if being the guitar player for the nigh-perfectionist Steely Dan didn't say enough about his skill, he is also the frontman for his own group, the Jon Herrington Band, where he serves as guitarist as well as singer and songwriter. Read More

The one song where Walter Becker and Donald Fagen shared songwriting credits with somebody else, that being keyboardist Paul Griffin. Read More