Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Archives

News: The Wallflowers announce first-ever Australian tour celebrating 30 years of ‘Bringing Down the Horse’

Thirty years after Bringing Down the Horse turned The Wallflowers into one of the defining American rock bands of the ’90s, Jakob Dylan and company are finally heading to Australia.…

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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 & the Heartbreakers – Hard Promises

For reasons that have never been explained to my satisfaction, the majority of rock fans this side of the pond never embraced Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers in the same…

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