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The Best Music books of 2023: Britney Spears, the Beatles, Steely Dan, and more

The Globe and Mail’s biggest music fans review their Wrapped playlists and reflect on how surprised, or even shocked they were by their top artists and songs

From turntables to box sets to stocking stuffers, here is our 2023 holiday gift guide for musicians and music lovers alike.

Weird, intelligent, polished, poetic, and hilarious—it’s a worthy companion to the Dan’s jazz-rock canon of bizarro characters.

One really great thing to do every day of the week.

Has any band had a longer tail than Steely Dan? Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon has been a consistent seller for decades, but that’s more a murmur of rock in the steady state background of culture. Floyd were a global nova and their long commercial dissipation will continue.

Indie rockers like Meg Remy and Emm Gryner are finally riding the melodious wave

There’s no perfection in their art—only degrees of graceful failure.

Listen closely, dig deeper. There is far more to Steely Dan than meets the ear. Just like our sacred texts.

To celebrate the release of Quantum Criminals, Paste sat down with its author Alex Pappademas and illustrator Joan LeMay for an interview.