Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mid-70s was the era for rock groups “doing too many things at once”. Yet Steely Dan stood apart from all of them. The musical ...

This essay is adapted from Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay’s “Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan. A few months after Steely Dan co-founder ...

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This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has noticed that there are a number of significant albums that are celebrating their 50th anniversary. And he's decided to devote a summer series to ...

This interview originally appeared in NPR Music's weekly newsletter. Subscribe to the newsletter here. Steely Dan is a paradox. As writer Alex Pappademas puts it, it's a "cult band whose catalog ...