Styx Launch ‘The Mission,’ First Studio Album in 14 Years, and It’s a Career Milestone in Sonics & in Content

BY MIKE METTLER — JUNE 16, 2017
“We can do this.” This was the mantra undertaken by Styx as the band spent almost 2 years on and off behind closed doors working on the music that ultimately became known as The Mission, its sonically sweet 16th studio album and most ambitious, most challenging, and most rewarding […]

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Giles Martin on Remixing The Beatles’ 1967 Masterpiece, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”

BY MIKE METTLER – JUNE 1, 2017

Believe it or not, the most important date in popular music history is Sunday, June 1, 1947. That’s the exact date Paul McCartney refers to in the title track of The Beatles’ seminal 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when he sings its opening line: “It […]

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