Steely Dan co-leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker cultivate the most sympathetic characters of their career on the ten ...

Jack Black is a very musical actor, having risen to prominence in Tenacious D, and there is one classic 1970s band he is ...

A Steely Dan tribute band is scheduled to take the stage April 5 at the Parish Center for the Arts in Westford.

Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were truly ahead of their time, with a string of classic albums, satirizing 1970s coked-out yacht-rock smoothitude even as they luxuriated in it. And one thing never ...

Today's column is named after a Sheldon Harnick song, as performed by The Kingston Trio. It's a satirical piece about unrest ...

Coxon’s other choices in the feature are certainly interesting. His nomination for ‘best song to play at a party’ is Donald Fagen’s sleek early '80s hit New Frontier: “I have to have it on four times ...

In 2023, ’80s pop star Rick Astley performed with indie rock band Blossoms at the Glastonbury Festival in England with a set list of 18 songs originally written and recorded by The Smiths.  Apparently ...

How does a truly terrible song end up an otherwise flawless album? Blame ego-appeasing band-politics concessions, drug-fueled studio experiments, songwriters working through a few too many ...

Sadly, within that time one half of the Donald Fagen/Walter Becker partnership that created ‘Steely Dan’ as we know it passed away. Martin and I felt that this was the right thing to do to preserve ...

As fresh entries to Bard College in 1967, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen imagined a pulsing jam session on every dorm floor, a confluence of heady creativity enjoined by “those of my kind ...

“I should just call him up and say ‘Let’s party,’ and he might show up,” Mulaney joked at the time. Donald Fagen, how about you? Related ...