Haylie Duff is 27. Feb. 20: Actor Sidney Poitier is 85. Jazz and soul singer Nancy Wilson is 75. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 71. Actress Sandy Duncan is 66. Guitarist J. Geils of The J. Geils Band is 66. Actress Brenda Blethyn is 66. Actor...

Radiohead’s “Kid A” was pitted against Steely Dan’s comeback, “Two Against Nature” for album of the year, not to mention Eminem’s critically adored “The Marshall Mathers LP.” In the end, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s jazzy licks triumphed over the...

Maybe the Recording Academy was trying to make up for the criminal fact that the elder (you see a pattern?) duo never won the big one in their 70’s prime. Or was it that only one hip-hop artist, the enigmatic Lauryn Hill , had garnered the momentous...

How difficult it is to do justice to Donald Fagen and Walter Becker’s zealous studio perfectionism and heavily layered sinister undertones. Yet that didn’t stop Toronto prog-rockers The Darcys from deciding to try and reinterpret the entirety of Steely...

Blues”, and “Josie”. Aesthetically distant from its source, you say? Not so fast. A strange kinship is afoot. People forget that Steely Dan’s music is fucking dark. “More lyrically subversive than The Clash and The Sex Pistols combined,” wrote Chuck...

Canadian band The Darcys didn’t have a problem making their cover of Steely Dan’s “Josie” interesting, that’s for sure. Their version, which is available for free download on their website right now, darkens the Dan’s original quite a bit. Of course,...