Sponsor Message In the new book Quantum Criminals, Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay give a roadmap to the Steely Dan extended universe through the lens of the characters at the heart of the band's ...

Ray Charles was among the most important artists America has ever witnessed, and he always had an incredible impact on Steely ...

You could fill a book with all the shady characters you meet in Steely Dan songs. Quantum Criminals is that book. Journalist Alex Pappademas and artist Joan LeMay take a deep dive into the genius ...

Steely Dan’s songs of monied decadence ... Each chapter is accompanied by deadpan paintings from the artist Joan LeMay, character sketches to go with the character sketches.

Steely Dan painted so many darkly satirical pictures ... There’s no perfection in art, only degrees of graceful failure. Like every work of art, Katy Lied is a tombstone for a different work ...

Though the book dips in and out of biographical episodes of Steely Dan’s creative team and only ... synching R&B duo Milli Vanilli won Best New Artist, as far as Grammy outrages go.

With a rotating cast of elite session musicians, meticulous studio production, and lyrics steeped in irony and edge, Steely Dan blurred the line between band and art project. Their pursuit of ...

But even if nothing about Steely Dan was hip-hop, everything about them ... Like Donald and Walter, he was an artist whose work drew on memories of formative schlock, referencing the Marvel ...