A newsletter about Steely Dan, featuring original interviews, oral histories, audio stories, themed mixtapes, and more transmissions from the Daniverse
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Steely Dan’s ‘Aja’ remains endlessly fascinating
When Steely Dan’s Aja was released on September 23, 1977, Rolling Stone reporter Cameron Crowe happened to be interviewing Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Here’s how the young scribe took in the scene at Becker’s Malibu home that fateful da...
When Columbia House meant an album in every mailbox
Filmmaker Chris Wilcha discusses ‘The Target Shoots First,’ his documentary about working at the mail-order record club in the 1990s.
Late last month Chris Wilcha’s phone began buzzing with text messages. A long-dormant group thread shared...
Elliott Randall on searching for the lost chord with Steve Hiett
The “Reelin’ in the Years” guitarist recalls making a dreamy 1983 album in Japan with the late British fashion photographer. (Plus: a Hiett tribute mixtape!)
When discussing his storied career as a guitarist, Elliott Randall often makes re...
The ‘lost Steely Dan film’ has been found
‘You’ve Got to Walk It’ had been thought missing for decades. After a years-long search, a third of the film recently surfaced on a bootleg VHS tape.
Earlier this month, I published an in-depth oral history of You’ve Got to Walk It Like Yo...
Hippies, cocaine, and 'dog meat': the oral history of 'You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It'
The sordid tale of how a lost counterculture film gave Walter Becker and Donald Fagen the chance to make their first album
Neither of them wanted to discuss it. They seemed embarrassed to even acknowledge its existence, as if it were a you...
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