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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following last month's news that Steely Dan's studio catalogue would be treated to new audiophile-grade vinyl and CD reissues, the question should be asked: has the band's present-day cultural revival ...

The first drum solo comes so soon, the entire band isn’t even onstage. For their opening numbers last week, at three “special set list shows” that kicked off an August tenancy at the Beacon Theatre, ...

Issued 40 years ago this week, Steely Dan’s sixth studio album “Aja” is still a demarcation point for a great divide among rock listeners. The main bone of contention was picked at in Rolling Stone’s ...