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Chicago's top cultural moments of the decade took root in city's 'front lawn'
Original at Chicago Tribune
• Sun, Dec 27
lakefront theater has hosted Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Beastie Boys, the International House Music Festival and many others. ... and more »
The decade in music: Indie acts take control of the mic
Original at The Journal News / Lohud.com
• Sun, Dec 27
Famed rock producer Rick Rubin brought in Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell to give the sound more backbone. ...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live Anthology (Warner Music Canada)
Original at Times & Transcript
• Thu, Dec 24
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live Anthology (Warner Music Canada) With some tracks dating back to 1980 and others as recent as 2007, essential Petty tracks like I Won't Back Down, Free Fallin', American Girl, ...
Cat shelter to remain open
Original at Daytona Beach News-Journal
• Tue, Dec 22
On the hardest and darkest days along the way, Grant said she turned to the Tom Petty song, "I Won't Back Down," for comfort. "I knew I was right," Grant ...
Holiday Gift-Guide Alert! Best Box Sets of 2009
Original at Gibson
• Tue, Dec 22
Until this year there was just one live album – 1986's Pack Up the Plantation – in the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' canon. No worries, however, as this ...
Wrap up shopping with gift of music
Original at California Chronicle
• Fri, Dec 18
Guests also include members of Bright Eyes, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The finished project comes off like what it is, ...
Tom Petty Says The Heartbreakers Were Angered By First Solo Album
Original at CJBK
• Wed, Dec 16
Over 20 years after releasing his first solo album, Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty recalls the Heartbreakers responding to the project with both confusion and ...
The 'Alice In Wonderland' Trailer: Not As Good As Gwen Stefani
Original at newsroom.mtv.com
• Wed, Dec 16
When the first trailer premiered, we were reminded of the classic video for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' "Don't Come Around Here No More," which cast ... and more »
Disc 1 of Tom Petty's new live anthology. The business.
Original at OnMilwaukee.com
• Tue, Dec 15
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers understand the concept. Their recent release "Live Anthology" is a monstrous project that captures the Rock and Roll Hall of ...
Gift guide: cds for giving
Original at DetNews.com
• Mon, Dec 14
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "The Live Anthology" (Reprise): This four-CD set covers Petty and the Heartbreakers' best work from nearly 30 years of live ... and more »
Best of the box sets
Original at Gary Post Tribune
• Sun, Dec 13
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: "Live Anthology" (Reprise) -- Anyone who has seen Petty and the Heartbreakers in concert knows this is one of rock's best ...
Best cds for gift giving in a year rich with new music releases
Original at Grand Junction Sentinel
• Fri, Dec 11
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “The Live Anthology” — This is one terrific set of songs! It is four cds of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers live for less ...
Tom Petty Live Anthology Radio Special (audio)
Original at RockStar Weekly
• Tue, Dec 8
To celebrate the worldwide release of the The Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Live Anthology box set this week (North America was end of November), ...
How To: Guitar Tutorials: Free Fallin' - Tom PettyOriginal at YouTube
• Tue, Dec 8
By rss@youtube.com (guitartutorials4you) Author: guitartutorials4you Keywords: Free Fallin' Tom Petty How-To Guitar Tutorial Acoustic Electric Classic Rock Guitar Tutorials Added: December 8, 2009
Brad Wheeler picks music by the box
Original at Globe and Mail
• Fri, Dec 4
In a review of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' self-titled debut in 1976, a rock critic predicted that if the band could do live what they did on record, ...
Chart Watch Canada: December 3, 2009
Original at MOG
• Fri, Dec 4
Premiers farther down the list are Glitter and Doom Live by Tom Waits at 60 and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Live Anthology at 97. ...
Opinion: Tom Petty's Live Anthology Disc Set
Original at BeatCrave.com
• Mon, Nov 30
Legendary rocker Tom Petty is out promoting his latest album entitled, The Live Anthology from which he's comprised hours of music from his career as a solo ... Tom Petty releases `Live Anthology' disc setThe Associated Press Florida rocker's 48 live tracks full of heartChicago Tribune
10 Best Tom Petty Lyrics
Original at Spinner
• Mon, Nov 30
With the recent release of the multi-disc set 'The Live Anthology' from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, we at Spinner thought we'd offer up a top 10 list ...
Retailers push few music deals on Black Friday, Cyber Monday
Original at HitFix
• Sun, Nov 29
The only Black Friday special from Best Buy was Tom Petty's mega boxed set, “Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live Anthology,” for a whopping $99. ... and more »
Review: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' 'The Live Anthology'
Original at Los Angeles Times
• Wed, Nov 25
JamBase Review: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' 'The Live Anthology' Tom Petty, another classic rocker, has assembled an impressive collection of his live work with his band the Heartbreakers that's similar in spirit to ... Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Live WiresJamBase
Sir Elton gives Brandi Carlile a hand - QS
Original at QueerSighted
• Mon, Nov 23
Sir Elton gives Brandi Carlile a hand QS (blog) Give Up The Ghost' also features appearances from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers multi-instrumentalist Benmont Tench, drummer Chad Smith and Amy Ray of The ... and more »
Dates set for 2010 Bonnaroo Arts and Music Festival
Original at Examiner.com
• Sat, Nov 21
and Radiohead and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (2006). The concert lineup for the 2010 Bonnaroo will be announced late in January/early February. ... and more »
Verse Chorus Verse: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" - Blogcritics.org
Original at blogcritics.org
• Mon, Nov 9
Verse Chorus Verse: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" Blogcritics.org (blog) Well, unless it becomes one like "Mary Jane's Last Dance" did for Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. It's one of the biggest hits of his entire career, ...
Dylan, Mellencamp, and Nelson team up for ballpark tour
Original at Boston Music Spotlight
• Wed, Jun 10
MA On the album, Dylan is backed by his regular touring band, as well as Mike Campbell of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. Mellencamp is backing his 2008 release, Life, Death, Love and Freedom, a folk-rock album produced by ...
Can't Get It Out of My Head: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
Original at blogs.houstonpress.com
• Tue, May 26
TX Instead, this gives Rocks Off a chance to write a few lines about one of our favorite Nicks songs, her duet with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around." The lead single from Nicks' 1981 solo debut Bella Donna, it rose to No. ...
How To: SixsPiece - Running Down A Dream TutorialOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Apr 17
By rss@youtube.com (SixsPiece) Author: SixsPiece Keywords: SixsPiece Helpsy Tom Helps Tom Petty Lesson Tom Petty Tutorial Added: April 17, 2009
How To: American Girl By Tom Petty Guitar LessonOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Apr 16
By rss@youtube.com (sshik123) Author: sshik123 Keywords: sshik123 how to play american girl by tom petty Added: April 16, 2009
MUSIC: BOB DYLAN AND TOM PETTY
Original at NYT > Tom Petty
• Thu, Mar 19
By By JON PARELES BOB DYLAN and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers gave an oddly paced, willful concert Tuesday at Madison Square Garden. The joint tour, in which Mr. Petty and his band accompany Mr. Dylan and play two 20-minute segments on their own, opened its three-night stand in New York with a set that ran nea...
Tom Petty: Runnin' Down a DreamOriginal at newrockstarphilosophy.com
• Sat, Dec 20
By The New Rockstar Philosophy After watching the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers documentary/biography, Running Down a Dream, I found myself digging through a lot of his material…on YouTube. Subscribe to The New Rockstar Philosophy by Email After watching the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers documentary/bio...
Silent Night
Original at MetaFilter
• Thu, Dec 11
By twoleftfeet Additional performances by Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver & the Muppets, Elvis, Andy Williams, The White Stripes, Britney Spears, Frank Sinatra, The Three Tenors, Olivia Newton John, Bing Crosby, Tom Waits, Jewel, Stevie Nicks, Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty, Mariah Carey, Na...
Music Review: Roy Orbison - The Best Of The Soul Of Rock and Roll
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Nov 26
OH - Nov 26, 2008 His late 1980’s work as a member of The Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty, brought him a new generation of fans. ...
Opinion: We Interview: Kathleen EdwardsOriginal at Seattlest
• Mon, Nov 17
By Jack Kathleen Edwards is a Canadian singer-songwriter who claims her primary influences are Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty. She spent some of her youth in Korea and Switzerland and she studied classical violin for twelve years. Do you have a favorite song from the new album?
How Keith Urban Ended Up With Tim McGraw’s “Shirt”
Original at CMT
• Fri, Nov 7
By Whitney Self As the story goes, back in 2002, Tim McGraw was looking for a song with a Tom Petty kind of feel. Hearing the news, well-known songwriters Tony Martin, Mark Nesler and Tom Shapiro went to work and created the song, “You Look Good in My Shirt.” However, McGraw decided to pass on the song, and it w...
Tom Petty Opens Up About George Harrison, Mudcrutch and Keeping Out of Politics
Original at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Nov 5
By Daniel Kreps • Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Add Heat To Memorable Super Bowl Photo: Walter/Getty In an exclusive interview posted on his Website (conducted by fellow rocker Warren Zanes), Tom Petty talks about his Super Bowl performance, Mudcrutch and Barack Obama. On the Traveling Wilburys,...
Roy Orbison The Soul Of Rock And Roll; long-awaited 4 CD box set (+ watch video)!Original at Band Weblogs » Albums
• Tue, Sep 23
By bandweblogs On October 13, 2008 (UK), Sony BMG & Orbison Records are proud to release The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the long-awaited definitive 4 CD box set of 107 seminal recordings including demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning the entire career of the profoundly inf...
Workin' On A Mystery: Tom Petty Is This Week's Stealth Chart Star
Original at Idolator
• Fri, Feb 15
By Chris Molanphy Over on the digital sales chart—where old tracks are allowed to appear alongside currents—the highest Petty charter is "Free Fallin'," which ends the week at No. 9. But if you combine its 63,000 downloads with the sales for "I Won't Back Down" (No. 34, 28,000), "American Girl" (No. 45, 25,000...
Podcast: Lefty's Lounge 28
Original at Dopefiend.co.uk
• Thu, Jan 3
By lefty@dopefiend.co.uk Pat Traverse - Black Betty; Rush - Best that I can; Frank Caliendo - Superfriends; Steve Miller - The Joker; The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches; Tom Rhodes - The Lonliest Joint; El Pus - Monday Morning; Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song; Pepper - Your Face; Hen...
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show
Original at Rolling Stone
• Sun, Dec 2
By Andy Greene “America Thanks” with Florida A&M University. IV V Florida A&M Band. VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI U2 XXXVII XXXIX XL XLI Prince XLII Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
BNB: Contra Costa Times BSB concert review
Original at bad
• Mon, Oct 29
By bh founding fathers of rock 'n' roll (Jerry Lee Lewis) and arguably the most get used to seeing such names as Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Phish, R.E.M., be remembered as fondly as, say, 1988 (Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia), 1998 (Phish, highlighted by a fine cover of Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'."
A good night for insider information
Original at Star-Telegram.com
• Sat, Oct 27
Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: I doubt director Peter Bogdanovich is going to make any converts with this four-hour-long documentary about Petty's three-decades-plus of rock 'n' roll. But if you're a Petty fan, it's a must, and if you've fallen away from Petty as I...
Music Review: The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
Original at Blogcritics
• Thu, Jun 28
By Josh Hathaway The Traveling Wilburys is such a preposterously huge idea that it would have to be real because no one would ever really imagine it. Think about it just for a second: a Beatle, Dylan, Orbison, and Petty? That's four guys in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for work they did on their own, and I've no...
Music Review: Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, Jun 25
By El Bicho In October 1990, the band returned as a quartet with Vol. 3. Vol 2 is considered to be Tom Petty’s solo album, Full Moon Fever, which featured everyone in the band except for Dylan. Possibly in acknowledgment of the new dynamic they would have, new Wilbury names were chosen to signify they were...
Music Review: Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Jun 20
By Glen Boyd When The Traveling Wilburys' debut album came around the first time in the eighties, I all but ignored it. Not that the idea of people like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty getting together for an all-star dream jam wasn't one to salivate over, but for me, the spoiler fa...
Music review: The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Jun 12
By Nik Dirga The combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne made for one of the finest "supergroups" of all time. Their first album, The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, and to a lesser extent, their second, teasingly labeled Vol. 3, represent a shining high point in each o...
Opinion: Overlooked Alternatives: the Afghan Whigs, the Jesus Lizard, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, the Police, Shellac, Tesla
Original at Blogcritics
• Wed, Jun 6
By Tom Johnson Tom Petty - Highway Companion Deluxe Edition: Speaking of "deluxe editions" ... Oh, Tom, there was a time when you threw a fit at the record label wanting to make 1981's Hard Promises the first record to be priced at a new, higher price point (of $9.98 - can you imagine?) and so you threatened to re...
The Traveling Wulburys CDs to be ReissuedOriginal at Wizbang
• Tue, Jun 5
By Kim Priestap Over late-night beers and joints, they dubbed themselves the Traveling Wilburys and released the fruits of their labors on a 1988 album titled "Traveling Wilburys Volume 1." Over late-night beers and joints, they dubbed themselves the Traveling Wilburys and released the fruits of the...
Opinion: The Listening Room April 2, 2007: R.E.M., Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Springsteen, Dylan, Rush, Cut Chemist, and Whitesnake?
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, Apr 2
By Josh Hathaway With this week's surprise announcement that Bob Dylan will be a guest judge on next week's "all-folk music edition" of American Idol, I thought it might be a good time to bone up on my Dylan in preparation for that certain to be fun episode. Patti Smith does a really good cover of this song on he...
Opinion: The Listening Room April 2, 2007: R.E.M., Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Springsteen, Dylan, Rush, Cut Chemist, and Whitesnake?
Original at Blogcritics
• Mon, Apr 2
By Josh Hathaway The big news for this week? That idiot DJRadiohead has stopped running this feature and has turned it over to me. There are a few of you who will get that joke. The rest of you would do best to keep reading forward, as there are some great entries in this week's Listening Room.Speaking of great ent...
Pink Floyd Snags Our Cover, Justin Likes The F Word, Hates Pop Affiliation, And MoreOriginal at Rolling Stone
• Wed, Mar 21
Check it out: Pink Floyd is our new cover story! The piece, written by longtime Rolling Stone scribe Mikal Gilmore, shows how a history of madness and excess helped destroy the legendary band. Judge for yourself tomorrow, when we’ll post choice details about psychedelic rock founders Sy...
Opinion: The Listening Room February 12, 2007: The Byrds, The Rhythm Syndicate, Tom Petty, Phil Lesh & Friends, My Chemical Romance, Phil Keaggy
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Feb 11
By Josh Hathaway Ken Edwards (Gaming Editor): "The Golden Rose" from Highway Companion by Tom Petty Highway Companion as a whole reminds me of older Petty, and that is just fine with me. The instrumentation is so warm and rich, a stark contrast to his last record with The Hearbreakers - which makes this albu...