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Track: Verge Collection – Feelin’ Old plus album and tour news

Western Australian band, Verge Collection‘s new single, ‘Feelin’ Old’ has an instantly engaging indie rock jangle that takes residence in your head like a virus. A very enjoyable one. There…

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Classic Compilation: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Anthology: Through the Years

Tom Petty – a Dylan disciple, a Byrds with harder-wearing tunes, a Bruce Springsteen for the rest of us. Few artists have defined approachable Middle-American rock and roll radio quite…

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Obituary: Tom Petty

Of all the luminaries of pop music that we have lost in the last couple of years, it is the music of Tom Petty which I have had the longest…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

The first thing that strikes you about Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers ’ debut album is how rough it sounds compared to the slick and streamlined made-for American roadtrips that…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are one of the great rock and roll bands of the American Heartland. Every bit as accessible as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,…

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Not Forgotten: Tom Petty – Wildflowers

For his second ‘solo’ album Tom Petty did the smart thing and recruited Rick Rubin as the producer. Rubin’s organic and raw production methods were in sharp contrast to the…

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