Reuters - Jun 26, 2008
No flashpots, lasers or elaborate stage sets. No grimacing solos or rehearsed rants. So why -- year after year, tour after tour -- does Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers remain one of the best live...
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To follow up a Super Bowl performance that was viewed by more than 90 million people, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are going incognito. Petty and longtime bandmates Mike Campbell and Benmont...
More »AP - Feb 4, 2008
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers surprisingly subdued Super Bowl halftime show was as uncomplicated in person as it looked on television. There were no wardrobe or any...
More »AP - Dec 6, 2007
Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year: Irreplaceable, Beyonce; The Pretender, Foo Fighters; Umbrella, Rihanna featuring Jay-Z; What Goes...
More »E! Online - Dec 4, 2007
They might not know much about running the ball at fourth and goal, but they've got it covered when it comes to runnin' down a dream. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been tapped to headline...
More »Reuters - Dec 2, 2007
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will play the coveted halftime slot at the Super Bowl in Arizona on February 3, organizers of the year's No. 1 television event said on Sunday. This year, nearly 140...
More »AP - Jun 12, 2007
Warren Weitzman is 40 years old, and there s no way he s going to share a portable toilet and camp out with thousands of other people just to see The Police perform at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival...
More »Reuters - May 27, 2007
Choosing a theme song for a political campaign may sound fun but can produce plenty of sour notes. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's online quest for help in picking a campaign song is evoking responses...
More »Reuters - Apr 17, 2007
Australian singer/songwriter Ben Lee has drafted Mandy Moore and Good Charlotte guitarist Benji Madden for his next album. Ripe, the follow-up to 2005's Awake Is the New Asleep, is due out September...
More »AP - Feb 7, 2007
Mary J. Blige has a leading eight Grammy nominations and her triumphant comeback was the feel-good story of the 2006. So it seems as if her coronation on Grammy night is all but assured. But as another...
More »AP - Feb 5, 2007
Rick Rubin is a healthy reminder of the danger in relying on superficial impressions. He s a bearish man with long, flowing hair, a bushy beard and ever-present dark sunglasses. See him at a club and...
More »AP - Jan 5, 2007
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival is negotiating to buy the 500-acre farm where the first five festivals were held to be the event s permanent home, the landowner has said. Bonnaroo officials declined...
More »AP - Dec 31, 2006
Looks like Tom Petty won t back down after all. The veteran rocker says he s not retiring, despite a Rolling Stone article in July that suggested otherwise. Petty said 2006 was one of the most rewarding...
More »E! Online - Dec 15, 2006
He set the stick shift for the high gear of his soul all right, but unfortunately, Trey Anastasio s driving was out of control. The former Phish frontman has been busted in upstate New York for allegedly...
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
More »E! Online - Nov 29, 2006
Nickelback has all the right reasons to be among the top contenders for the 2006 Billboard Music Awards—namely, the Canadian rock outfit outsold virtually everyone else. The band tied with ...
More »Reuters - Aug 29, 2006
The Strokes cover of Marvin Gaye s Mercy Mercy Me, which features Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and Queens Of The Stone Age principal Josh Homme, will be released September 26 as the B-side to the...
More »Reuters - Aug 9, 2006
Kinks frontman/co-founder Ray Davies will be honored with a lifetime achievement award from American performing rights organization BMI in London on October 3 The BMI Icon honor, to be presented during...
More »AP - Jul 24, 2006
For a man who fronts one of the most enduring bands in rock n roll, it s an oddity that two of Tom Petty s finest albums are solo discs 1989 s Full Moon Fever and this one. Highway Companion...
More »Reuters - Jul 22, 2006
It s 9 p.m. at The Gig in Hollywood and a crowd of L.A. hipsters is trickling in to catch the evening s act. The bar itself is just one of several live music venues scattered throughout the city that...
More »Yahoo! Music - Jul 5, 2006
Tom Petty will not be suing the Red Hot Chili Peppers for plagiarism, according to an interview in Rolling Stone magazine. Commentators had speculated that a legal battle was on the cards after the New...
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