With his long blond hair and high cheekbones, Tom Petty looked like a central-casting rock star. The nasal whine of his voice, propensity to pick fights with the music industry, and loyalty to the ...

Tom Petty thought he was just making another solo album. Instead he ended up performing open-heart surgery on himself, ...

Tom Petty is one of the greatest American songwriters. With a seemingly effortless ability, Petty wrote songs that felt like you knew from birth, yet they were songs you wanted to sing over and over ...

"It was a joy listening to the tapes and discovering all the sonic elements that went into each song, and then presenting them in a new, compelling, and immersive way," says Ulyate. "The goal with ...

Between his solo career and his work with the Heartbreakers, Tom Petty released a lot of albums during his life. But which of them is the greatest? That's what we want to know during this week's ...

And up for auction is a wall of vinyl records, which seems like they were tucked away in a meeting room somewhere — 24 of what the auction site dubbed as “Twitter Essentials,” which evidently includes ...

Some final albums carry the vague air of an impending departure, the sense that an artist is coming to terms with mortality. Not Hypnotic Eye, the last record Tom Petty released with his longtime band ...

Dierks Bentley has released a refreshing rendition of Tom Petty‘s 1976 hit “American Girl.” Bentley’s bluegrass version will appear on the forthcoming tribute album Petty Country: A Country Music ...

Tom Petty’s been gone for seven years, but he seems as ubiquitous as ever in 2024. The concert film Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party, directed by Cameron Crowe and aired on MTV just once in 1983, ...