Elvis Costello's Sundance Channel show really is a perfectly packaged hour for music nerds. EC is an adept interviewer, and never shy about joining in the jam during his guest's performance segments. As at the wrap party, last night's Spectacle... CONTINUE READING ELVIS COSTELLO FLESHES OUT HIS SPECTACLE WITH SHE & HIM & JENNY LEWIS »
Posted on February 12, 2009 in (21 comments)
Tags: Elvis Costello | Future Of The Left | Jenny Lewis | M. Ward | Melvins | She And Him | Steely Dan | Zooey Deschanel
We don't mean to dwell on Coachella, but when our plane touched down at LaGuardia late Monday night, they were playing Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen." We notice things like this because we like Steely Dan ... and that song could... CONTINUE READING CRYPTACIZE COVER STEELY DAN»
Posted on May 1, 2008 in , (25 comments)
Tags: Cryptacize | Steely Dan
Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like. A hirsute James Taylor gets the Leibovitz cover treatment for RS #255, alongside... CONTINUE READING OLDSTAND: ROLLING STONE, DECEMBER 1977»
Posted on January 7, 2008 in (6 comments)
Tags: Cameron Crowe | James Taylor | Linda Rondstadt | Pat Metheny | Rod Stewart | Steely Dan | Talking Heads
It's back to school time, but Graduation's in the air (okay, stop the groaning, we'll stop the puns). You know hip-hop non-listeners haven't paid this much attention to a rapper since, well, Kanye himself dissed George W. during that Hurricane... CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: KANYE WEST - GRADUATION»
Posted on August 31, 2007 in (60 comments)
Tags: 50 Cent | Coldplay | Daft Punk | Kanye West | Steely Dan
Epistles of love for the Dan are nothing new to these parts, so quite obviously the Becker/Fagan freaks 'n' geeks in us perked up upon hearing Kanye had plans to appropriate the Steely ones on his recent quest to sample... CONTINUE READING KANYE AND JENS LEKMAN LEARN TO LOVE THE DAN»
Posted on August 20, 2007 in (4 comments)
Tags: Jens Lekman | Kanye West | Steely Dan
Becker and Fagen are at it again:Maestro, we give to you this Message: there was a time when Giants walked among us. And, damn, if you, Wes Anderson, might not be the one to restore their racial dominance on this,... CONTINUE READING STEELY DAN VS. WES ANDERSON»
Posted on August 15, 2006 in (31 comments)
Tags: Steely Dan | Wes Anderson
I think Steely Dan has gotten more press for their cheeky letter to Luke Wilson than they did for Two Against Nature. I saw it last week while Stereogum was down, and figured I missed my window to blog about... CONTINUE READING SIX DEGREES OF JEFF "SKUNK" BAXTER»
Posted on July 26, 2006 (18 comments)
Tags: American Idol | Doobie Brothers | Kelly Clarkson | Steely Dan | Taylor Hicks
No more Yacht Rock?! Sad news via Channel 101:Yacht Rock enjoyed success on levels and in ways previously unattained by 101 shows, its title becoming a household phrase at radio stations, a bin at your local record store and a... CONTINUE READING "TAKE 537"»
Posted on June 27, 2006 in (9 comments)
Tags: Steely Dan | Yacht Rock
Last week, we excerpted Rolling Stone scribe Mark Binelli's sad profile of a heroin-snorting Pete Doherty. (The full article's online now. Am I the only one who didn't know it was pronounced Dockerty?) In the same issue, Austin Scaggs plays... CONTINUE READING "AJA" ON ACID»
Posted on March 29, 2006 in (60 comments)
Tags: Steely Dan
Norwegian songwriter/guitarist Sondre Lerche looks back to greats like Steely Dan and Elvis Costello. Stream his new disc.... CONTINUE READING TWO WAY MONOLOGUE»
Posted on March 2, 2004 (1 comments)
Tags: Elvis Costello | Steely Dan
