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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...