In the 25 years since Lawrence Gowan took over on keyboards for Styx in 1999, the progressive rock band has played 20 shows in and around Pittsburgh. And that total doesn’t even include the various ...

You can calm down, because the new Styx album, Circling From Above, isn't a concept record about birds -- at least not in the way that you might expect. But in conversation, the band's guitarist and ...

For more than 50 years, Styx has been filling seats with their brand of rock, ranging from electronic experimentation to power ballads to straight-up guitar rock anthems. Tuesday night, the band ...

It’s been a little under two months since Katania Williams last saw her son, Robert “RJ.” A picture of his smiling face dangles along her neck.

He tells UCR’s Matt Wardlaw that the band has hit upon a successful new songwriting process amid busy touring commitments. “I guess we just stumbled upon a way of doing it. Just writing, you don't ...

After spending a year mostly trapped inside his Tennessee home during the pandemic, Tommy Shaw needed to sharpen his guitar chops and do a little singing before Styx headed out on the road following ...

Dennis DeYoung had landed some important songs in his early days writing for Styx. But when he wrote “The Grand Illusion,” he knew something felt different. “I kept looking at those lyrics and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maybe it's just a grand illusion or something that connects people to great times from the past. Either way, attending a rock ...