AP - Aug 6, 2009
To prepare for their current tour, Steely Dan had to relearn their own music. The band will perform one of three albums — Aja, Gaucho or The Royal Scam — in its entirety on select dates of...
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Steely Dan principal Walter Becker plans to release his first solo album in 14 years by early June, and says he may hit the road to promote it later in the year. Circus Money, the follow-up to 1994&#...
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Bossa nova has been in Luciana Souza's blood since she was a child growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the early '60s as the daughter of two of its innovators, Walter Santos and Tereza Sousa....
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The soulful songs, the floppy mop of premature gray, the bluesy baritone: American Idol winner Taylor Hicks can hardly avoid comparisons to former Doobie Brothers singer Michael McDonald. Not that he...
More »AP - Jul 25, 2006
Paging Owen Wilson. Steely Dan wants an apology. The veteran group behind such jazz-rock hits as Rikki Don t Lose that Number says Wilson ripped off its Grammy-winning tune Cousin Dupree for his title...
More »AP - Nov 9, 2003
Rock music played lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their communist state, says one of those reformers who today is a government official. Andras Simonyi, Hungary s ambassador...
More »Reuters - Nov 6, 2003
Adding another cover to its film soundtrack resume, Smash Mouth is contributing a version of the Beatles Getting Better to The Cat in the Hat. Due Nov. 18 from Decca, the set largely comprises David...
More »USRN - Jun 19, 2003
(6/19/03, 5 p.m. ET) -- Steely Dan had a good first week with their new album, Everything Must Go. The CD sold a little less than 91,000 copies, putting it at Number Nine on the Billboard 200 chart. That...
More »USRN - Jan 27, 2003
(1/27/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- Steely Dan has announced a release date for its new studio album. Everything Must Go, the band s first effort since 2000 s Two Against Nature, is due May 6 from Reprise Records...
More »USRN - May 14, 2001
(5/14/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Steely Dan singer-guitarist Walter Becker and singer-keyboardist Donald Fagen were awarded honorary doctorates Saturday (May 12) by Boston s Berklee College of Music, where Fagen...
More »USRN - Apr 6, 2001
(4/6/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Steely Dan has been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, don t think for a minute that the group s longtime tweaking of the organization is going to end any time soon....
More »USRN - Mar 20, 2001
(3/20/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Moby ushered in Steely Dan into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Monday night (March 19) in New York City. The New York resident was asked how he was chosen to induct the jazz-rock...
More »USRN - Mar 19, 2001
Michael Jackson, Paul Simon, And Rock Pioneers Also Honored (3/20/01, 2 a.m. ET) - Aerosmith, Queen, and Steely Dan officially joined the ranks of rock royalty Monday (March 19) when they were inducted...
More »USRN - Feb 23, 2001
(2/23/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- Steely Dan s three wins at Wednesday night s (February 21) Grammy Awards came as something of a shock to many, but even more surprising is that two of the awards were in pop categories...
More »USRN - Feb 22, 2001
(2/22/01, 2 p.m. ET) -- Steely Dan was the big winner for the old guard at last night s Grammy Awards. The band took home three awards--album of the year and best pop vocal album for Two Against Nature...
More »USRN - Feb 21, 2001
(2/22/01, 12:30 a.m. ET) - Eminem swept all three rap categories but lost the coveted album of the year award to Steely Dan, and U2 took both the record and song of the year honors as both controversial...
More »USRN - Dec 13, 2000
(12/13/00, 10 a.m. ET) - The founding members of Steely Dan will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on March 19, 2001. Twenty-eight years after releasing their first album, Can t Buy A Thrill...
More »USRN - Oct 9, 2000
(10/9/00, 4 p.m. ET) - After releasing its first new album in two decades earlier this year, Steely Dan will be feted with a new anthology on November 14 when MCA releases Show Biz Kids: The Steely Dan...
More »USRN - Jun 19, 2000
(6/19/00, 6 p.m. ET) - Stray Cats frontman turned swing bandleader Brian Setzer has just finished his new album, Vavoom!, which is set for an August 1 release, but fans can hear his latest music on the...
More »USRN - May 31, 2000
(6/1/00, 1 p.m. ET) - Steely Dan kicks off the North American leg of its Two Against Nature tour tonight (June 1) at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. It s been a long and often strange trip for the...
More »USRN - May 23, 2000
(5/24/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Michael McDonald saluted his old friends Walter Fagen and Donald Becker by performing two Steely Dan songs -- Peg and Pretzel Logic -- at the 17th annual American Society of Composers...
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