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 ...

The groovy, immensely catchy tune has become one of Steely Dan’s trademark tunes and has influenced multiple generations of artists through the decades. Let’s dive into the meaning behind “Reelin’ In ...

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 ...

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

Another long-lost Steely Dan track has finally been brought to light — this time, an early-'70s jingle written for the Milwaukee-based Schlitz Beer. You can listen to the track below. The Schlitz Beer ...

During an otherwise inconsequential scene from Breaking Bad, methamphetamine entrepreneur Walter White sits around his family's dining room table and marvels at his son's lack of jazz-rock knowledge. ...

A previously unreleased Steely Dan cover of Joni Mitchell’s Blue song “Carey” has been unearthed. As The Dan Vault‘s YouTube channel points out, the radio host Steve Acri played the track on ...

Steely Dan co-founder, guitarist and bassist Walter Becker died Sunday at the age of 67, leaving an extensive catalog of memorable hits. Here are a few of the band's most notable songs to remember him ...

For reasons I can no longer recall — but which probably had at least something to do with my stubborn resistance to taking any sort of extra-curricular instruction in anything that I wasn’t already ...

An adventurous Hammond organist opened the evening. Singer-pianist Donald Fagen and guitarist Walter Becker took the stage as their band played "Dizzy’s Bidness," a jazz standard associated with ...