Steely Dan’s fifth studio album, The Royal Scam, known for classic cuts like “Kid Charlemagne,” “The Fez,” “The Caves of Altamira,” and the gripping title track, is slated to return to vinyl format ...
This essay originally appeared in Issue #4 of Paste Magazine in the fall of 2003, republished in celebration of Paste’s 20th Anniversary. I must have been the summer of 1989 when my uncle foisted a ...