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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prior to this Dan-sanctioned discovery, “The Second Arrangement” had only been available in low-quality bootlegs of questionable origin. Gary Katz, the band’s producer, told Expanding Dan that he ...

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 ...

Steely Dan started out from a pretty intellectual place. After all, they memorably named themselves after an obscure sexual aid from William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel Naked Lunch. By the time they ...

Donald Fagen performs onstage at the Second Annual LOVE ROCKS NYC! at Beacon Theatre on March 15, 2018 in New York City CREDIT: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for God's Love We Deliver Steely Dan have hit ...

Steely Dan have shared live versions of “Hey Nineteen” and “Reelin’ in the Years,” off their upcoming live album Northeast Corridor. “Hey Nineteen,” which you can hear above, was recorded at the Met ...

Steely Dan’s Gaucho turned 40 last week. Forty is the perfect anniversary for a Steely Dan album, since so many of their narrators, on that album in particular but ...

David Crosby has shared “Rodriguez for a Night,” a new song co-written with Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen. The track appears on Crosby’s forthcoming album For Free, which arrives July 23, just before ...

There’s no band out there quite like Steely Dan. This jazz rock fusion outfit was called “musical antiheroes of the seventies” for good reason. That being said, choosing their very best songs is no ...