Former Steely Dan guitarist Denny Dias has looked back on the making of his iconic Do It Again electric sitar solo – and revealed it was recorded using a “piece of crap” rental guitar. Dias ...

In a recent Not a Blog post, Martin announced that auditions for the series are nearly complete, with key roles such as Tanselle, Steely Pate, Baelor Breakspear, the Laughing Storm, and others ...

Steely Dan's songs of monied decadence, druggy disconnection and self-destructive escapism seemed satirically extreme way back when. Now they just seem prophetic.

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 ...

In 1979, a studio technician accidentally erased a new Steely Dan song called “The Second Arrangement.” Attempts to rescue the recording were futile, and everyone assumed the tune was lost to ...

A long-lost Steely Dan track has once again resurfaced thanks to Steely Dan's longtime engineer Roger Nichols ...

Jim Beard, a jazz keyboardist who played with the band Steely Dan, has died at 63 years old. The musician had most recently been playing with the band on the Eagles "Long Goodbye" tour.

Unlike most bands, Steely Dan was never about a fixed lineup—it was an evolving soundscape masterminded by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. With a rotating cast of elite session musicians ...

The new book, Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and other Sole Survivors From the Songs of Steely Dan, is the delightful result of an author not only understanding their subject, but ...

Jim Beard played with Steely Dan for 16 years, but also had a career as a renowned jazz keyboardist. Beard died March 2 at age 63.

No other Steely Dan album feels quite so eager to be liked. Steely Dan’s success defied rock-and-roll logic at every turn, starting with the fact that it wasn’t really a band.

Photo via Steely Dan's Official Facebook Steely Dan will reissue their 1973 LP, Countdown to Ecstasy, on vinyl next month. The group’s co-founder Donald ...