When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their 2002 album, The Last DJ, radio was still alive and well. Television and personal music devices had become primary sources for musical consumption.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released Long After Dark, their fifth studio album, in Nov. 1982. Barely two weeks after the record was out, the band was in the studio taking calls from fans to ...

Two new versions of Tom Petty classics—Eddie Vedder’s “Room at the Top” and Larkin Poe’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream”—are available to stream now. The covers, which premiered on SiriusXM’s Tom Petty radio ...

TOM PETTY: Everything. You know, I still see it as this really magical thing, and it was wonderful. I didn't have the money to have a vast record collection. So I learned everything, really, from the ...

Jim Ladd, a celebrated free-form radio DJ who is widely considered the inspiration for Tom Petty’s 2002 album and single “The Last DJ,” died Dec. 17 of a heart attack. He was 75. Since 2012, Ladd ...

Tom Petty was always going to lead with honesty and integrity, even if that meant biting the hand that fed him. He often displayed this trait when it came to battles with his record companies over ...

For nearly 50 years, Mike Campbell shared the spotlight with a legend he refers to as “my brother” — the late Tom Petty, whose death in 2017 changed everything for Campbell, a brilliant guitarist who ...

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were eligible, in 2002. As a member of the band the Traveling Wilburys, from '88 to '90, Petty ...