Last night, for reasons entirely too convoluted to explain, I was standing around in a Palm Springs casino showroom that was empty except for myself, my traveling companions, a tight-knit and highly ...

People might forget today, but there was a time in the late 1970s and early 1980s when Midwestern rockers were heavyweights on the pop charts. Specifically, rock bands from my home state of Illinois.

"Concept albums are tricky," Dennis DeYoung tells UCR. "Sometimes I think it's just a horse-shit excuse to get people to think you're smarter than you are. [But] it gave us a focus, if we chose, to ...

Styx is best known for such hits as “Come Sail Away,” “Mr. Roboto,” “Too Much Time on My Hands” and “Rockin’ the Paradise.” ...

Styx has been around since 1972, meaning they know a thing or two about crafting a set list. "We're fans ourselves," Tommy Shaw explained to AXS TV in 2024. "It's like, what would we want to hear? Or ...