There’s something about Steely Dan that rubs certain musicians the wrong way. Maybe it’s the pristine, almost clinical perfection of their recordings, each note meticulously engineered within an inch ...

Steely Dan have been making music for nearly 55 years - but many of the band's fans have been left scratching their heads over the meaning of their stage name. The American rock band, formed by ...

Of course, this being Steely Dan, there’s still the twist of it being a love song to a prostitute. In “Quarter” Time Steely Dan was still very much a confined unit in 1973 when they released ...

It looked for quite some time the legacy of Steely Dan would be confined to the ‘70s, a decade their music helped define. Who could ever have expected that they’d make a grand return ...

The Steely Damned is a Steely Dan tribute band (duh) originally featuring Rockola's Bob Tedde, Four Eyes guitarist Marc Decerbo, and several other local players. Guitarist Hank Easton frequently ...

I knew Steely Dan was going to do this song and I was just finishing building a Stratocaster. No dressings on it. It weighed about, I don’t know, ten pounds. It was a very heavy instrument.

Often, the talent seems nonchalant. Doctor Wu starts modestly and then pulls out a splendid chorus from nowhere that entertains well. By 1975, Steely Dan had the capacity to be both inscrutable and ...

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Dan Diamond is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He was previously a national health reporter covering politics, policy and public health. He joined The Post in 2021 after covering ...

She was steely and her patience seemed to be in short supply at points. She betrayed no fear and little ambivalence and she seemed quite confident speaking on her boss’s behalf. Which was not ...

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute. This resolves a lawsuit filed 15 years ago over events in the 1940s. Senate Republicans are ...

THE dumping and smuggling of steel in Malaysia has been getting plenty of attention of late, as it could potentially have widespread repercussions on several industries, and some parties say it ...