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 ...

Tom Petty enjoyed incredible success in the 1980s. Even these extremely underrated tracks from that era deserve extreme attention.

Tom Petty would begin an interesting three-pronged career resurgence not long after the 21st Century got underway. He was also incredibly prolific: When he died in 2017, he’d already released three ...

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, ...

If you want to say that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “Live at The Fillmore (1997)” is one of the best live rock albums ever, you could also say that it’s cheating a bit to get there: It’s four ...

"I [used] a pill bottle with a ridge on it — One A Day vitamins, I think," he explained in the same Guitar Player interview. It wasn't exactly what they were looking for though: "We decided that the ...

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 ...

It’s blindingly obvious to say that Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers were one of the all-time great American bands, but that statement is beyond question not only because of Petty’s deeply human and ...