A newsletter about Steely Dan, featuring original interviews, oral histories, audio stories, themed mixtapes, and more transmissions from the Daniverse
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The Dead, the Dan, and ‘Friends of the Devil’
“Quantum Criminals” authors Alex Pappademas and Joan LeMay discuss their kaleidoscopic new Grateful Dead book.
In a Newsday column published in 1974, Robert Christgau dubbed Steely Dan “the Grateful Dead of bad vibes.”
Donald Fagen’s comeback: never-before-seen concert photos
Drummer Gary Gold, who backed Fagen in the Little Big Band, recalls how a series of shows at small New York City clubs brought about the maestro’s revival.
Dam-Funk remembers when “‘Hey Nineteen’ was popular in the hood”
The L.A. musician and crate-digging DJ talks about how the smooth sounds of the ’70s and ’80s transcended racial lines. Plus: his AOR mixtape!
A decade ago, the Los Angeles musician and DJ Damon “Dam-Funk” Riddick found himself collaborati...
Peel slowly and see
“I genuinely believe that Becker and Fagen, for the most part, were just being sarcastic and making fun of certain things simply to amuse themselves,” Klosterman says. “It was not an attempt to persuade people.”
Chuck Klosterman has spent...
Could ‘Kamakiriad’ have been a Steely Dan album?
Donald Fagen answers that question and more in this previously unpublished 1993 interview on Britain’s Virgin 1215 radio.
Upon Kamakiriad’s release in May 1993, Donald Fagen had some explaining to do.
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