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 ...

As far as most traditionalists are concerned, Styx’s Pieces Of Eight represents all that’s most remarkable about the band, their music and their ideology. Their eight album, released in September 1978 ...

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 ...