Steely Dan's sixth studio album arrived in September 1977 as the artistic pinnacle of the '70s jazz-rock movement. Their 1976 album Royal Scam had been a solid, guitar-centric album which nonetheless ...

Steely Dan's Aja represented a defining moment in my young musical development; being a jazz-lover and serious student of music (drums/percussion), I had never imagined that a Rock-and-Roll album ...

"These people are too fancy, they’re too sophisticated," William S. Burroughs said of Steely Dan in 1977. "They’re doing too many things at once in a song." Burroughs, who had no personal connection ...

The acclaimed 1977 album will be pressed on Ultra High-Quality Vinyl (UHQR) at 45 RPM. In addition to being available on vinyl, the remastered album will also be available to purchase as a Super Audio ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Aja’ at 40: Why Steely Dan’s Audiophile Masterpiece Is Also Kind of Punk Issued 40 years ago this week, Steely Dan’s sixth studio ...

Steely Dan are one of those bands you either love or hate. To some, they represent the highest peaks of songwriting and studio craft, with lyrical vignettes about lost souls and strange characters ...

Steely Dan fans are in for a treat, as the band’s classic 1977 album, Aja, is getting a vinyl reissue and has been “remastered from analog,” according to a new press release. This version of Aja will ...

It’s a good thing Steely Dan is a real band, because its story is too improbable for fiction. What are the odds that one of the most popular rock bands of the ‘70s would consist of two antisocial, ...

Even though they were known for perfection, Walter Becker and Donald Fagan took it to another level for a track on the Steely ...

It sounds like the happiest possible Steely Dan song. But "Peg" has more than a little bitterness in its lyrical DNA.