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 ...

Less than two months after IndyCar drivers started their engines for the first time in 2026 on the streets of St. Petersburg, the momentum is matching the race pace.

Styx is feeling helpless when it comes to being considered for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, according to co-lead singer Tommy Shaw. Shaw confessed in a recent interview with Billboard that the band ...

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 been writing songs for decades. While it's not unusual to sometimes realize part of a composition sounds like an existing song, singer and guitarist Tommy Shaw was still concerned. That's one ...

Shaw went to Nashville at 19 and joined Smoke Ring, which would rebrand itself as MS Funk, a big rock band with horns. Shaw ...

Career boosts can come from the most unexpected places, as Styx vocalist and keyboardist Lawrence Gowan found out in real-time after a raunchy Comedy Central cartoon provided them with a new, younger ...

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 ...