Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...

Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were notorious for demanding perfection from their studio musicians, particulalry when it came to guitar solos. With a number of crème de la crème A-list ...

Guitar great Rick Derringer died on Monday, May 26, at age 77. The Ohio-born Derringer, whose real last name was Zehringer, first came to fame as a teenager, when his band The McCoys scored a No. 1 ...

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WESTFORD — A 10-musician group inspired by classic rock band Steely Dan will perform early next month at the Parish Center for the Arts on Lincoln Street. The Nightflies are scheduled to take the ...

A Vulture series in which studio musicians select their best performances. “I used to go all the way to the backroom, find a guitar, smash it against the wall, and go to the manager and say, ‘Hey, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Steely Dan's Katy Lied launches on a trio of charts in the U.K.

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 ...

The Steely Dan catalog contains some of the most exacting and technically difficult music ever to grace the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Hilo Jazz Orchestra, which is connected with the University of ...

Like many artists in the 1970s, Steely Dan rose to prominence while following in the footsteps of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles were a source of ...

Dave Navarro has explained how Steely Dan helped him return to music after he’d stopped playing guitar for over a year. Navarro only recently returned to Jane’s Addiction, with the band having to hire ...