https://www.spin.com Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:23:49 +0000 en-US https://assets.spin.com/wp-content/themes/spin/assets/images/spin-logo_feed.png https://www.spin.com 125 40 Music News, Album Reviews, Concert Photos, MP3s, Videos and More hourly 1 https://www.spin.com/2018/10/queens-officially-names-street-after-steely-dan-walter-becker/ https://www.spin.com/2018/10/queens-officially-names-street-after-steely-dan-walter-becker/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2018 20:47:24 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=308790 Steely Dan guitarist and vocalist Walter Becker died last year after a longtime battle with esophageal cancer. In the wake of his passing, the New York City Council announced that it would rename the street of Becker's childhood home in honor of the Forest Hills, Queens native. After having the plan approved over the summer,… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/10/queens-officially-names-street-after-steely-dan-walter-becker/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/07/steely-dan-walter-becker-street-queens-new-york-city/ https://www.spin.com/2018/07/steely-dan-walter-becker-street-queens-new-york-city/#respond Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:12:24 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=296940 Walter Becker, one of the masterminds behind the legendary Steely Dan unit, passed away in September after a long struggle with esophageal cancer. Becker, a New York City native, is now getting a street in his home neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens named after him. Late last month, the New York City Council approved the… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/07/steely-dan-walter-becker-street-queens-new-york-city/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/03/steely-dan-residency-new-york-city-dates/ https://www.spin.com/2018/03/steely-dan-residency-new-york-city-dates/#respond Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:26:48 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=283479 Steely Dan, the band will be undertaking a residency at New York City's Beacon Theater this fall, with different nights including performances of different full albums by the band: Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam, Gaucho, and their beloved 1977 masterwork Aja. Excluded from the lineup are three other albums from the band's classic… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/03/steely-dan-residency-new-york-city-dates/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2018/02/walter-becker-steely-dan-motion-dismiss-fagen/ https://www.spin.com/2018/02/walter-becker-steely-dan-motion-dismiss-fagen/#respond Tue, 06 Feb 2018 23:51:16 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=277733 Steely Dan singer and songwriter Donald Fagen sued the estate of his late band member, guitarist and songwriter Walter Becker, who passed away in September, for full ownership of Steely Dan Inc. based on a Buy/Sell agreement drawn up between Becker and Fagen in 1972 that stated that if a member of Steely Dan… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2018/02/walter-becker-steely-dan-motion-dismiss-fagen/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/12/donald-fagen-interview-steely-dan-walter-becker/ https://www.spin.com/2017/12/donald-fagen-interview-steely-dan-walter-becker/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:23:54 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=271308 Donald Fagen appeared on yesterday’s installment of Rolling Stone’s Music Now podcast. The discussion is the Steely Dan co-founder’s lengthy and open interview since Walter Becker’s death in September. Fagen spoke about Becker’s death and how, given that he "had been ill for quite a while," it didn’t come as a complete surprise. He said… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/12/donald-fagen-interview-steely-dan-walter-becker/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-lawsuit-donald-fagen-walter-becker/ https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-lawsuit-donald-fagen-walter-becker/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:03:37 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=267285 Steely Dan fans, the band's lead singer and songwriter, Donald Fagen, sued the estate of his late co-conspirator, guitarist and songwriter Walter Becker, for sole ownership of the Steely Dan name and all rights associated with it. Central to the case is a Buy/Sell argument drawn… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-lawsuit-donald-fagen-walter-becker/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-singer-sues-bandmates-estate/ https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-singer-sues-bandmates-estate/#respond Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:21:49 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=267084 Steely Dan lead singer Donald Fagen is suing the estate of his longtime bandmate Walter Becker in an effort to keep the band's name and music alive. Fagen and Becker's decadeslong partnership is detailed in the filing, which notes the two continued playing together even when the late guitarist's health began to decline.]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/11/steely-dan-singer-sues-bandmates-estate/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/11/walter-beckers-widow-esophageal-cancer/ https://www.spin.com/2017/11/walter-beckers-widow-esophageal-cancer/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2017 17:16:32 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=266374 Rolling Stone published a letter written by late Steely Dan guitarist and co-founder Walter Becker's widow Delia today. The heartfelt note thanks his fans for their condolences and tributes, but also provides new details about Becker's struggle with cancer at the end of his life. Delia Becker explains in the latter that Becker had… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/11/walter-beckers-widow-esophageal-cancer/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/2017/10/steely-dan-walter-becker-tribute/ https://www.spin.com/2017/10/steely-dan-walter-becker-tribute/#respond Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:48:30 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?p=263062 Steely Dan has always been a unit that worked in the larger service of their complex, technically demanding tunes. So the band is on the road again, despite the death of Donald Fagen's better half Walter Becker in early September. In a statement following Becker's death, Fagen seemed to justify this decision: "I intend to keep the… ]]> https://www.spin.com/2017/10/steely-dan-walter-becker-tribute/feed/ 0 https://www.spin.com/featured/steely-dan-aja-40-year-anniversary-essay/ https://www.spin.com/featured/steely-dan-aja-40-year-anniversary-essay/#respond Wed, 27 Sep 2017 19:33:00 +0000 https://www.spin.com/?post_type=featured&p=259250 "These people are too fancy, they’re too sophisticated," William S. Burroughs said of Steely Dan in 1977. "They’re doing too many things at once in a song." Burroughs, who had no personal connection to the band, had been asked to comment on Aja, Steely Dan’s new record, because co-founder Walter Becker and Donald Fagen had named themselves after… ]]> https://www.spin.com/featured/steely-dan-aja-40-year-anniversary-essay/feed/ 0