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 ...

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 ...

Styx has made Las Vegas shows an annual outing. The band's Tommy Shaw tells us about why they're playing "Pieces of Eight" this time.

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 ...

As the only continuous original member of Styx, vocalist-guitarist James “JY” Young is living the baby boomer rock ’n’ roll dream. And he’ll continue to do that when the classic rock act, which is ...

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.

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 ...

Singer and keyboardist Lawrence Gowan has been a mainstay in Styx’s lineup since joining in 1999. Still, the rocker recognizes that another late ‘90s influence may have impacted the band even more. In ...

Styx might be one of the biggest classic rock bands that are still active. The band was massive throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s, releasing four consecutive multi-Platinum albums, selling tens of millions ...