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...
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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...
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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...
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Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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It's not often a rock star opens up his bedroom closet to the world.
Tom Petty did and the results are on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which is...
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Everclear's new studio album,
"Welcome to the Drama Club," pays tribute to rock and blues
greats.
On the self-produced effort -- due September 12 via Eleven
Seven Music --...
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The fifth annual Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival grossed $15 million, according to a report on Billboard.com.
About 80,000 fans attended the sold-out, four-day festival...
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As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates.
He also had a...
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Tom Petty is running down a deal.
The "Amerian
Girl" singer has signed a new recording contract with renowned producer
Rick Rubin's American Recordings.
The...
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Get ready, Tennessee; here come Radiohead, Tom Petty and 70,000
tour wookiees.
Now in its fifth year, Bonnaroo Music and Arts
Festival will be welcoming fans back to...
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By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press Writer
As fans head to the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this weekend, the show is moving from hippie to hipper in its fifth...
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Tom Petty is considering launching legal action against the Red Hot Chili Peppers over a song on their new album, according to reports.
Petty is said to be aware of the...
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The Dixie Chicks appear to be more popular than the president these days. President Bush's approval rating has plummeted, but the Chicks are on top of the pop and country...
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Each week, Tom Petty selects some musical gems that have fallen into obscurity and beams them out on his satellite radio show, hoping to expose fans to some classic music...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are running down a few
thousand Hells Angels.
The Rock and Roll Hall of
Famers are revving up to headline the inaugural Rock'n the...
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One of the most influential
American-spawned bands will be celebrated with the five-disc
box set, "The Byrds: There is a Season."
Due August 29 via Sony BMG's Legacy...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are slated to join Keith Urban, the Black Crowes, Big & Rich and Nickelback at Rock 'n the Valley, a five-day music festival to be held this...
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Peter Bogdanovich will tag along with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to film their upcoming concert tour for a documentary.
Bogdanovich, who directed "The Last Picture...
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Gene Pitney memorably sang "Only Love Can Break a Heart," but
word of his death is proving equally saddening.
The
melodramatic crooner, who earned a spot in the Rock...
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Willie Nile, "Streets of New York," (00:02:59)
Maybe it's true that every good idea in rock 'n' roll has already been taken. That doesn't mean an old guitar slinger can't...
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Willie Nile, "Streets of New York," (00:02:59)
Maybe it's true that every good idea in rock 'n' roll has already been taken. That doesn't mean an old guitar slinger can't...
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Every year, one of the most
heavily debated Grammy Award categories is that of best new
artist.
While all of the candidates vying for the coveted statuette
on February 8...
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Dedicated concertgoers, rejoice! The lineups for this year's
Coachella and Bonnaroo festivals were officially revealed this week, and
both of the eclectic rosters offer a...
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Mick and the boys will surely get some satisfaction out of this.
The Rolling Stones raked in $162 million in concert ticket
sales in 2005, becoming the top-grossing tour...
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Powerhouse tours by the Rolling Stones, U2 and Paul McCartney helped drive concert ticket revenues in North America to a record $3.1 billion in 2005, even as the number of...
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One of country's hardest rock bands will open for one of rock's hardest country bands. Brooks & Dunn will warm up for the Rolling Stones in Omaha, Neb., Jan. 29.
"We've...
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Apparently not satisfied with having recorded scads of classic
albums, scored a raft of Grammys, elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, written a bestselling memoir or...
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Green Day had quite a night at the 2005 Billboard Music
Awards, taking home six trophies in all--a feat matched only by 50 Cent,
who also racked up a half-dozen trophies,...
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It's late morning and the guys from Cross Canadian Ragweed are beat.
Cody Canada drifts into the coffee shop a few minutes late and plops down beside bandmates Grady Cross...
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Singer-songwriter Chris Whitley,
who emerged from obscurity in 1991 with his debut album "Living
with the Law," has died of lung cancer, his label said on
Tuesday. He was...
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Cameron Crowe was on tour with his
wife, musician Nancy Wilson. He gazed out the bus window at the
Kentucky landscape and thought of his father; he had not been
back to...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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Melissa Etheridge has beaten breast cancer.
In an
interview that aired Wednesday night on the syndicated TV show
Extra, the "Lucky" crooner announced that she has made...
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Nine months after doctors found a
malignant tumor in her breast, rock singer Melissa Etheridge
says she is cancer free and thinking about having a baby with
her partner,...
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Over his 35-year career, singer-songwriter John Prine has been called a keen commentator, a wry humorist and a master storyteller. The one thing he's never been called, it's...
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Veteran pop/metal outfit Def Leppard
is showing no signs of slowing down, as evidenced by its
jam-packed summer/fall schedule.
First up is a double-disc career overview,...
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Rock 'n' roll reunion tours come in
many shapes, whether it's the classic rock band cashing in on
decades-old nostalgia, or indie-rock darlings tromping though
the clubs...
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It's mid-afternoon and Sara Quin is on the Bowery Ballroom stage in New York City, squinting up at a black cloth. The backdrop is festooned with what may be a tipped blood...
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The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is...
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U2, the Pretenders, Buddy Guy, Percy
Sledge, and the O'Jays will be inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame at its 20th annual induction ceremony, to be held
March 14...
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Usher won Hip-Hop Artist of the Year and Hip-Hop Song of the Year at the Radio Music Awards Monday night. Linkin Park grabbed the Alternative Rock Song of the Year and Rock...
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Songwriter to Tom Petty : Don't do me like that!
A
California songwriter has filed a $4.5 million breach of oral contract
lawsuit against Tom Petty and Los...
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After his run on the ongoing Vote
for Change tour, John Fogerty will launch his own headlining
tour Nov. 8 at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
At deadline, 11 stops were...
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Capitol Records on Tuesday said it
will soon release a new DVD with performances by George
Harrison as well as archival footage featuring the ex-Beatle
talking about his...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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Radio giant Clear Channel Communications will raise money for Hurricane Charley victims by auctioning guitars autographed by musical stars, among them Britney Spears , Tom...
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Radio giant Clear Channel Communications Inc. will raise money for Hurricane Charley victims by auctioning off guitars autographed by musicians, including Britney Spears ,...
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No bride is immune to pre-wedding jitters and singer Melissa Etheridge says she was no exception.
Last fall she married actress Tammy Lynn Michaels and worried about the...
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Although they are not planning to
tour this year, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will instead be
working on various projects, including a studio release, a live
album and...
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Prince was crowned as musical royalty
on Monday as he joined the late George Harrison among eight
inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Also honored at the 19th...
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The forecast called for purple rain at the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Monday, where inductee Prince's
electrifying performance was a highlight of the ceremony that...
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Eminem 's "The Marshall Mathers LP"
and OutKast's "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" have each been
certified for U.S. shipments of 9 million copies.
The sets are fast...
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Beyonc
Knowles, multiplatinum sweetheart of the music award show circuit
this year, was exhausted. She'd just appeared on the Vibe
Awards and breathlessly arrived across...
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Jimmy Iovine, head of
the West Coast operations of Universal Music Group, has signed
on for another six years, sources confirmed Thursday.
Iovine, the chairman of...
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The quiet Beatle's voice hasn't been forgotten.
Two years after his death,
George
Harrison will become the third Beatle enshrined in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame as a...
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Tom Petty has postponed his upcoming European tour with the Heartbreakers. The dates were supposed to get underway July 3 in the U.K., but the plans were pushed back after...
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Tom Petty is mourning the death of former Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein. Petty released the following statement on behalf of the group. "We are deeply saddened at the...
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Howie Epstein, former bassist with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, died Monday (February 24) at age 47. Details were unavailable at press time, but Epstein was known to have...
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This year's Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction class could have a decidedly rock-and-roll edge to it. The organization has asked voters to choose from a pool that includes...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are getting ready for the George Harrison tribute concert that takes place Friday (November 29) at the Royal Albert Hall in London. However,...
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Tom Petty is getting ready to honor his friend, the late George Harrison. Petty and the Heartbreakers are on the bill for Friday's (November 29) George Harrison tribute...
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Tom Petty was among the many rock 'n' roll guest voices to appear on the season premiere of The Simpsons on Sunday (November 10). Petty joined Rolling Stones Mick Jagger and...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers marked the arrival of their latest album, The Last DJ, by performing the effort in its entirety Tuesday (October 15) for a nationwide audience....
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have announced a short U.S. tour for the fall and early winter, with Jackson Browne as an opening act. The jaunt will take the group to 17...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers take the stage Tuesday and Wednesday (October 15 and 16) at Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles for a pair of shows celebrating their new album,...
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Now that the new Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers album, The Last DJ, is out, fans can hear Petty's rants about the music and entertainment industries. Some would consider it a...
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Out Tuesday (October 8) is The Last DJ, the new album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers.
Much has already been said and written about the lyrical content of many of the...
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The new single from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "The Last DJ," has been seen as an attack on the current radio business. In addition, several of the other songs on The...
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Tom Petty is currently stirring things up with "The Last DJ," the title track to his forthcoming album with his band the Heartbreakers. In the song, Petty seems to be...
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When Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers made a tour stop in San Bernardino, California, on Saturday (August 24), they may have played corporate monolith the Blockbuster Pavilion,...
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Tom Petty's "You Don't Know How It Feels" has already been a hit, reaching Number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1994. Now the song is getting a second life as part...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers kick off a summer tour on Thursday (June 27) at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It's Petty's second consecutive summer outing...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers will launch a North American tour on June 27 in Grand Rapids, Michigan--and the band's original bassist Ron Blair, who left the band in 1982,...
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From the beginning of his career, Tom Petty has proven himself to be a master songwriter. In fact, he was so good so early that he was tagged as "the new Dylan."
While...
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An A-list of rock and roll celebrities was on hand for the induction of the class of 2002 into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York last...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the band with the nasal-twanged leader who created such classic rock anthems as "Breakdown," "Refugee," "American Girl," and "I Won't Back...
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For Tom Petty, one of the special things about Monday's (March 18) Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction is that he's going in with his band, the Heartbreakers. Other...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, and the Ramones lead the latest class of inductees for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The group, which was announced Thursday...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are just one of the acts set to perform tonight (September 21) on America: A Tribute To Heroes, the multi-network telethon that airs from 9-11...
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Tom Petty wraps up his 31-date 2001 tour with the Heartbreakers Saturday (July 21) at the Verizon Wireless Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana. Petty, who married...
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The bassist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and his girlfriend might face drug-possession charges after they were arrested earlier this week in Albuquerque, New Mexico....
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Tom Petty has new reason to sing "Viva Las Vegas"--that's where he quietly married his longtime girlfriend Dana York on June 3, following the Heartbreakers' sold-out,...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers helped celebrate the 60th birthday of Bob Dylan on stage in Santa Barbara, California Thursday night (May 24) by performing a version of...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have announced the second leg of their U.S. summer tour. The group was only going to play a 15-date run through the Western U.S., after which...
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Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have scheduled a 15-show run of dates west of the Mississippi for May and early June. The gigs are a warm-up of sorts, as plans are for the...
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How do a presidential candidate and his family cheer up after losing an extremely tight race? If you're Vice President Al Gore, you invite Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers...
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As they work on their next album, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' past will be celebrated with the October 31 release of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Anthology: Through The...
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Jayhawks vocalist/guitarist Gary Louris and Wallflowers guitarist Michael Ward have lent their six-string skills to Long Play 33 & 1/3, the debut effort by Atlanta...
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Santana
leads the list of classic-rock artists nominated for Grammys this year -- after all, those 10 nominations lead the list of all nominees (LAUNCH, 1/4/00) -- but...
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Out tomorrow (Nov. 9) is High Grass Dogs--Live From The Fillmore, a new home video and DVD by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that was filmed during their March concerts at...
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A Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers gig at Indiana University in Bloomington scheduled for Wednesday night (Oct. 6) was canceled due to staging difficulties.
Although Petty's...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno - Tom Petty is the musical guest.
PBS:
In Performance At The White House--The Singer And The...
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The big news on this week's sales chart, released today by SoundScan, isn't necessarily the fact that Nas's I Am... managed to retain the top spot for the second...
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"We've been trying to get Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers to play this show since the beginning," said Bill Flanagan, producer of VH1's Storytellers, and it was certainly...
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In the continuing follies surrounding the delivery of music on the Internet, Warner Bros., who initially had no comment about MP3.com posting an MP3 file of "Free Girl...
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With "Free Girl Now," a track from Tom Petty's forthcoming Warner Bros. album Echo, available for free download on www.mp3.com--bearing the apparent blessing of Warner...
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In anticipation of the April 13 release of Echo, the first new album from Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers since 1996's Songs And Music From She's The One, the quintet will...
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