Steely Dan’s ‘Gaucho’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

November 15, 2025 Libby Cudmore

The duo’s seventh LP comprises seven tracks of high-class pulp, sex workers and johns, dope addicts and coke dealers, and spoiled love affairs, elevated with elaborate horns and impossible chords.

Steely Dan’s ‘Pretzel Logic’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

February 18, 2024 Libby Cudmore

Becker, Fagen & crew’s third LP is not their best album, but it’s a perfect introduction, a bridge of what Steely Dan was and what they would become.

Donald Fagen’s ‘Kamakiriad’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

May 21, 2023 Libby Cudmore

Fagen’s second solo foray ‘Kamakiriad’ is an examination of aging, heartache, writer’s block and redemption via a sci-fi roadtrip in the steam-powered Kamakiri.

Steely Dan’s Debut Album ‘Can’t Buy a Thrill’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

November 1, 2022 Libby Cudmore

Steely Dan Debut Album Can’t Buy a Thrill

Steely Dan’s dynamic 1972 debut LP signaled the arrival of the pair’s burgeoning musical vision and penchant for sonic innovation.

Walter Becker: Remembered & Revered

September 8, 2017 Libby Cudmore

Though the Steely Dan co-founder's song was cut far too short, he has left us with a body of music that will outlive us all.

Bob Dylan’s ‘Love And Theft’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Where ‘Time Out Of Mind’ was drenched in murky, reverb-heavy production, ‘Love And Theft’ was something else entirely: dry, warm, well-written and self-produced under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

Jay-Z’s ‘The Blueprint’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

Jay-Z made damn good albums before ‘The Blueprint,’ as well as some afterwards. But his sixth studio affair remains the album where everything came together.

P.O.D.’s ‘Satellite’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

P.O.D. have enjoyed a prosperous and influential career to date, but their most successful project to date remains their breakthrough fourth album.