Tom Petty

Behind The Song

07.05.25

A Spark of Brilliance: Behind the Unfiltered Tom Petty Classic That He Wrote in Under Four Minutes

By Em Casalena
Behind The Lyrics

06.26.25

Tom Petty Made up This Brilliant Lyric on the Spot

By Jim Beviglia
Features

06.24.25

The Scuffle Between Johnny Rotten and Tom Petty in the 1970s: “There Ain’t No Robin Hoods in Rock, Man”

By Peter Burditt
Features

06.22.25

Before the Fame and the Fortune, a Teenage Don Felder Gave a Young Tom Petty Guitar Lessons

By Peter Burditt
Behind The Song

06.19.25

Tom Petty Wrote a Third Verse to This Heartbreakers Classic Specifically for Grace Jones

By Tina Benitez-Eves
Latest Music News & Stories

06.07.25

Tom Petty Guitarist Mike Campbell’s New Song with Current Band The Dirty Knobs Is a Melodic Homage to Rural America

By Matt Friedlander
Interviews

05.30.25

Ex-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Drummer Stan Lynch Loves Being in a Band Again, Dishes on The Speaker Wars’ Debut Album (Exclusive)

By Matt Friedlander
The List

05.30.25

One Amazing Slow Song From Each of Tom Petty’s New Millennium Albums

By Jim Beviglia
Features

05.29.25

“Nothing Worse”: Tom Petty on the Worst Thing a Musician Could Do, and How He Spent His Entire Career Avoiding It

By Melanie Davis
Features

05.23.25

“I Hated Them That Year”: Why Tom Petty Felt So Strongly About Pink Floyd in 1980

By Melanie Davis
On This Day

05.22.25

On This Day in 1979, Tom Petty Filed for Bankruptcy Ahead of His Double-Platinum Album, ‘Damn the Torpedoes’

By Melanie Davis
On This Day

05.17.25

On This Day in 1987, Tom Petty’s House Was Burned Down by an Unknown Arsonist

By Em Casalena

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