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DEBUT THEATRICAL SCREENINGS OF 'CHEAP TRICK LIVE AT BUDOKAN 1978'
Original at legacyrecordings.com
• Tue, Nov 25
more- THUR, DEC 4th: Phoenix AZ San Diego CA San Diego CA San Diego CA Chula Vista, CA Los Angeles CA The Echoplex Chicago IL Niles ShowPlace Chicago IL Chicago IL Chicago IL Chicago IL Succasunna, NJ Succasunna Santa Fe, NM New York City, NY
The Imaginary Review: An Eargasm Interlude
Original at The Imaginary Review
• Tue, Nov 25
By The Imaginary Reviewer Southern Accents – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Eargasm moment: 2:20 My favourite song by my favourite band of all time. The eargasm moment is really for the lyrics, which always seem to get me. I could listen to this song forever. ...
Comcast Center named Amphitheatre of the Year
Original at Boston Music Spotlight
• Tue, Nov 25
MA - Among the sold out shows this summer were: Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Jonas Bros., as well as radio station sponsored day ...
Three acts treat fans to country
Original at Bangor Daily News
• Tue, Nov 25
ME - Lady A?,” the fellow Georgian went into overdrive with the high-energy “Johnny Cash,” “Relentless,” “Hick Town” and Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down. ...
Ira Kaufman's Power Rankings
Original at TBO Sports
• Mon, Nov 24
Move over Tom Petty - Norv Turner is joining the Heartbreakers Tour. 21. Broncos. Best of an awful division. 22. Texans. See what happens when your defense shows up? 23. Eagles. Big changes are in the air. 24. Jaguars. ...
The Traveling Wilburys: 80s Supergroup Features Dylan, Petty ...
Original at classicrockmusic70s90s.suite101.com
• Mon, Nov 24
The Traveling Wilburys formed in 1988 after a chance recording session and a meeting of some of the most prominent rock musicians of the previous two decades. The rock group united George Harrison of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty of ...
The Popdose 100: Our Favorite Singles of the Last 50 Years | Popdose
Original at Popdose
• Sun, Nov 23
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, “The Waiting” (download) In a hundred years, when some snot-nosed kid wants to know what stadium rock was all about, the Heartbreakers’ 1981 single will be the answer: anthemic lyrics, air-guitar-worthy ...
The Waiting is the Hardest Part.
Original at lvyankeefanclub.com
• Sun, Nov 23
As the Hot Stove League progresses, and we wonder who will wind up where, we find out the truth in the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song. After all, the Waiting is the Hardest Part. K-Rod to Mets? C.C. to Yanks? ...
Experienced players are the talent for change - PoliticalGroove Forums
Original at PoliticalGroove Forums
• Sat, Nov 22
I'm very pleased Obama is looking like a pragmatist. Traveling Wilburys (l to r) Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison. CosmicRocker is online now, Top. Old Today, 07:44 PM. Heretic. Master of Quill-Fu ...
News Radio 1420 Lubbock, Texas
Original at Radio 1420 KJDL Lubbock
• Sat, Nov 22
New releases included Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' album "Damn The Torpedoes." In 1983 Badfinger's Tom Evans committed suicide by hanging. In 1991 Queen singer Freddie Mercury announced that he had ...
ickmusic » Ickmusic’s (late) Friday Five, November 21st, 2008
Original at ickmusic
• Fri, Nov 21
4) Counting on Your by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Echo — my wife once saw Tom, Benmont, Howie, and Mike in an airport and told me that she has never seen any body as cool as them. 5) Do You Really Want to Hurt Me by ...
Stills gives back to musical roots | Gainesville.com | The ...
Original at Gainesville Sun
• Fri, Nov 21
He recently played a song by Mudcrutch - the Gainesville band Tom Petty led in the '70s and recently reformed - in one of his solo performances. "I saw them at the Troubadour (in Los Angeles in April), and I went 'They're exactly like ...
The Santa Barbara Independent Mike Campbell’s The Dirty Knobs at SOhO
Original at The Santa Barbara Independent
• Thu, Nov 20
The very public reunion came in the form of Mudcrutch, the original forerunner to Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Just over a year ago, Petty invited the band’s entire original cast—including Campbell, Randall Marsh, Tom Leadon, ...
Carlene Carter did it all on 'Stronger' CD - The Republican
Original at The Republican
• Wed, Nov 19
Carlene Carter did it all on 'Stronger' CD MassLive.com, MA - her sister Rosey Carter, and her former boyfriend, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' bassist Howie Epstein, all died within months of each other). ...
Gainesville is a music town
Original at Gainesville Sun
• Wed, Nov 19
FL - and when the scene is examined by the eye of the music media, I want more to hang my hat on than Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers or Less Than Jake. ...
AN ANGRY DAKOTA DEMOCRAT: Midweek Music Videos - Tom Petty Edition
Original at AN ANGRY DAKOTA DEMOCRAT
• Wed, Nov 19
By Brent Midweek Music Videos - Tom Petty Edition. "Saving Grace". "A Face In The Crowd". "Jammin' Me". "The Last DJ". "Walls". Posted by Brent at 12:04. Labels: music, Video Wednesday. 0 comments:. Post a Comment · Older Post Home ...
PINK STUNS CLUB CROWD WITH TRIBUTE SHOW
Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
• Tue, Nov 18
By PR-inside Entertainment News PINK stunned music fans at Los Angeles nightspot the Key Club on Monday night (17Nov08) when she took to the stage to belt out a cover of TOM PETTY’s FREE FALLIN’ with the house tribute band. The hitmaker joined pal Todd Morse, who fronts covers act Petty Cash, for a special performance. The ap...
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?
MEMORIES COME FLOODING BACK FOR PETTY
Original at PR Inside (Pressemitteilung)
• Wed, Nov 12
PR-inside.com) TOM PETTY credits MUDCRUTCH bandmate TOM LEADON for helping him claw back lost memories from the 60s. The rocker had feared that age had robbed him of recollections from the beginning of his music career - when he was a member of Mudcrutch. The swamp-rock act disbanded when Pe...
Individual by design
Original at New Zealand Herald
• Wed, Nov 12
New Zealand - Nov 12, 2008 The label is an exact replica of the first record I ever owned, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes. This cushion really does rock! ...
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,...
<b>Mudcrutch</b> releases live four-song EP
Original at Gainesville Sun
• Wed, Nov 5
Mudcrutch, from left, Benmont Tench, Randall Marsh, Mike Campbell, Tom Petty and Tom Leadon, releases a live EP on Tuesday. Mudcrutch, the Gainesville band led by Tom Petty in the '70s, released their first album earlier this year ...
President Barack Obama's Inaugural Playlist!Original at Spin
• Tue, Nov 4
By Matt Kiser 1. “Yes We Can,” Boy George 2. “Can We,” Brandy 3. "Problems," Sex Pistols 6. "Don't Blame Me," The Everly Brothers 7. “Over My Head,” A Flock of Seagulls 8. "In Too Deep," Genesis 9. "Drowning Man," The Cure 11. "Cry Cry Cry," Johnny Cash 13. "Free Fallin'," Tom Petty 14. "Help!" The Beatles
Celebrity Birthdays, October 20
Original at Starpulse.com
• Mon, Oct 20
Happy Birthday to rapper Snoop Dogg (1971), pop singer and supermodel Dannii Minogue (1971), Cleveland Indians outfielder Juan Gonzalez (1969), Lord of the Rings actor Viggo Mortensen (1958), singer/songwriter Tom Petty (1950),
Sprint Center: It's been a good first year
Original at Back to Rockville
• Mon, Oct 13
By BacktoRockville Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers with Steve Winwood: Just solid from start to finish. Brucevz 3b.) Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band; The band gets an A-plus, despite the late start. It delivered 3 hours and 10 minutes of music with ...
MUSIC: BOB DYLAN AND TOM PETTY
Original at New York Times
• Wed, Oct 8
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...
A Rock Rebel Who'll Never Give In
Original at New York Times
• Wed, Oct 8
By By KELEFA SANNEH One of rock 'n' roll's great skeptics, Tom Petty sang a bit of protest-pop with the Heartbreakers at Madison Square Garden on Friday.
Boss Tracks; Goin' Back, the Byrds
Original at Boss Tracks
• Wed, Oct 8
By SoulBoogieAlex(noreply@blogger.com) Jim McGuinn, better known as Roger was one of the big guest stars during this tour. But I'll wager that when he stepped on stage in Orlando more than a few eyebrows were raised. As Roger once confided to Tom Petty, when he was helping him produce one of his solo albums "Back from Rio," McGuinn reg...
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...
Concert Review and Photo Gallery: Tom Petty and Steve Winwood at ...
Original at Pegasus News
• Tue, Aug 26
By Susan Kandell Not some long-lost relative or friend coming to pay us a visit, but Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are headed our way. And judging from my extensive t-shirt collection, he’s been here many times. The concert at the American Airlines ...
REVIEW: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS AT SADDLEDOME - On the Scene
Original at The Province - Canada.com
• Tue, Aug 12
By HMcCoy Over and above everything else, you can chalk that enduring appeal up to the consistent quality of Petty’s songs, which was on great display when he and his band The Heartbreakers performed at the ‘Dome Monday. ...
CrossFade - Miami - Throwback Tuesdays: Tom Petty--"I Won't Back Down"
Original at The Miami New Times Blog
• Tue, Jul 8
By Jonathan Cunningham And for whatever reason, "I Won't Back Down" is one of my favorite songs from his long list of hits. What's funny about the song is that it was released on Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever album from 1989. It wasn't a Heartbreakers record... ...
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...
Is Tom Petty A Big Enough Draw For Super Bowl Audiences?Original at Idolator
• Wed, Jan 30
By Maura Johnston There are a few things that are looking wobbly in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLII—cough cough, Tom Brady's ankle, cough cough—and programmers on cable networks are betting that the ratings power of Tom Petty is one of them. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that networks are in a "coun...
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 XXIX XXX XXXI XXXII XXXIV XXXV XXXVI U2 XXXVII XXXIX Paul McCartney 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: Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys CollectionOriginal at Blogcritics
• Wed, Jun 13
By Chris Beaumont For those of you who may not be familiar with them, the band is comprised of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. A formidable line-up by any measure, even if they all weren't on their A games during the period twenty years ago that gave rise to the Wilburys.
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...
The Tuesday Morning Purchase: June 05, 2007: Springsteen, Chris Cornell, Muddy Waters, Los Lobos, Marilyn Manson, Paul McCartney
Original at Blogcritics
• Tue, Jun 5
By Mark Saleski Another huge week. Springsteen. McCartney. Muddy Waters. Los Lobos. Tom Petty. A hip-top tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The concept is just so wrong that I just can't help myself. Highway Companion (Deluxe Edition) - Tom Petty - (Warner Bros.)/Rock
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...