According to That ’70s Show, Styx was the Nickelback of the ’70s — walk with me here. In the ninth episode of season seven — entitled “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” à la The Rolling Stones — ...

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 ...