Tom Petty

Director Dave Grohl, Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City

Here Are The Rules for Internet Jukeboxes

By John Seaborn Gray Used to be you'd have to hit bar after bar until you found just the right jukebox, which promptly became your own personal lair of alcohol consumption. Folks demanded more freedom of choice, however, so many bars have switched over to Internet jukeboxes, where you can download ... More >>

Ten Favorite Metro Phoenix Jukeboxes

See also: Top 10 Songs for Jukebox Warfare In the hands of a capable coin-popper, an Internet jukebox can be a great thing. A little far out Tropicália? That sounds nice. Some classic funk from Parliament? Yes, please. The deep cuts cost more, but can really set the mood. So we're not putting dow ... More >>

Jose Garces, What Are You Listening To?

​Jose GarcesThe Iron Chef and James Beard award-winning chef is executive chef of Distrito, Old Town Whiskey and Garces Trading Co. To-Go at The Saguaro Hotel. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I have Sirius/XM in my car, and ... More >>

The Maine, What Laura Says, NOFX, and More in This Week's Issue

What happens when a promising young pop band's album gets rejected by the major label they've signed a seven-album contract with? In the case of The Maine's Pioneer, the band says "screw it," and releases it anyway. Of course, the story is more complicated than that, which singer John O'Callaghan ... More >>

Top 5 Shows to Catch This Weekend: Bob Seger, Packrat, Blues Christmas Eve, Z-Trip, Valley Fever (And Jimmy Eat Word)

​You excited to see hometown heroes Jimmy Eat World on the night before the night before Christmas?Well you better have grabbed tickets quick, because the Wooden Blue Records Reunion Show, featuring a classic Phoenix lineup of Haskel, Aquanaut Drinks Coffee, Halema'uma'a, and Jimmy Eat World, is o ... More >>

Five Movies Outshined By Their Soundtracks

​It's impossible to not hate almost everything about Twilight. The books changed what "vampire" means to an entire generation. Now, it's less about being an undead monster than it is about misunderstood hunks with sparkly pale skin. Then, the movies went on to solidify the idea that as long a ... More >>

Jarrod Gorbel

Scottsdale's Ultimate Block Party

Scottsdale's Ultimate Block Party @ Craftsman Court

Best of 2010 Lists from Other Phoenix Music Writers

​This week's issue of New Times has Best of 2010 lists from a slew of contributors to our music section as well as Nothing Not New columnist Jay Bennett and a few other staffers. We compiled 13 writers' lists of the top 25 albums of the year into our own little Pazz & Jop-style top 25 list wh ... More >>

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes Gets Deluxe Edition Treatment

​You can't get more classic rock than Tom Petty and there's no Tom Petty album more classic than 1979's Damn the Torpedoes, which has just been reissued in a two-disc deluxe edition. The very foundation of a career that would lead Petty and his band, The Heartbreakers, into the Rock and Roll ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 10/14 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts.What's up with the Dodge Theatre's new name?Is Kanye West the busiest mofo in America?How were concerts by Jack Jo ... More >>

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Rock It with Pretty Lights at US Airways Center

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers managed to get the crowd at their US Airways Center show last night in a really good mood, with rocking guitar licks and a cool light show. The band was so good, they even convinced non-fans of their rock god status. Catch up on what some of his fans were feeling afte ... More >>

Tom Petty - Girl On LSD

​Song: Tom Petty, "Girl On LSD"Context: Tom Petty's rescheduled show at US Airways Center is tonight. I totally forgot he did this song. It's a great one, wonder if he still plays it anymore? Girl on LSD - Tom Petty

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers @ U.S. Airways Center

BORG, Sharon Jones, 'Chronicles of Sheriff Joe,' Torche, and More in This Week's Issue

Mike R. MeyerBORG: Addressing meth problems and the violence that may come with them.​This week's music feature is on local band Beyond Our Recognitions of God (BORG) taking action within their community. After BORG's drummer, John Landato, was stabbed in the neck by someone they've called a "craz ... More >>

NASA Wants You to Pick Out Music Used to Wake Up Astronauts

They can put a man on the moon, but they can't find a way to inject caffeine into Tang, and they sure as hell can't make a playlist.​NASA has found a way to integrate the general public into their upcoming STS-133 mission.As NME reports, the task at hand is to decide what music should be used to w ... More >>

What's Selling: Hoodlums Music and Movies

​Hoodlums has been the indie-rock home for ASU kids for many years. This week, the kids are branching out a little bit. While there are no great surprises in Hoodlums' top 10 list of bestsellers, classic rocker Tom Petty comes in at number one, and the Rolling Stones, Ozzy Osbourne, and Devo all m ... More >>

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mojo

​Artist: Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersTitle: MojoRelease date: June 15Label: RepriseHow many of you have acts that you'd never call yourself a fan of, would never buy one of their records, or pay money to see in concert, yet recognize that the acts have been around for so long and written songs ... More >>

Hanksgiving at Yucca Tap Room

Hank done it this way.​Undoubtedly, one of the coolest things about the Yucca Tap Room is the community of people that congregates there. Starting last summer, a core group of musicians from that community began putting together special concerts as a tribute to some of their favorite musicians. ... More >>

Kurt Vile

Petty Thieves

Local Acts Play All-Petty Show Wednesday

Not too many local shows sound more fun than this: Some of the Valley's best Americana, country, and rock singers getting together for a full night of Tom Petty songs at Yucca Tap Room. "Petty Thieves" features our old pal Chris Orf, a New Times freelancer, Jim Bachmann, who wowed us with his cover ... More >>

You Asked for It: Prehab

PrehabOne is Too Many (A Thousand Is Never Enough)Self-ReleasedIf Prehab's One is Too Many (A Thousand Is Never Enough) sounds a little too polished to be a debut, there's good reason. The guys spent five years as The Bedspins in the mid-90s, racking up 500 shows and serving as songwriters for the p ... More >>

You Asked For It: Sketching in Stereo

Submissions to our weekly You Asked For It local CD review column come in all kinds of packaging. We've received everything from CDRs with the title scrawled on the disc in barely-legible Sharpie to thoughtful, handwritten notes with handmade custom art. We've never had anything quite as polished as ... More >>

Reel Big Fish

Springsteen at the Super Bowl? Ugh. Why Not Kanye?

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Jobing.com Arena

Can the perfect pop song be calculated?

Letters from the issue of Thursday, February 21, 2008

Snoop and Diddy headline a cast of stars destined to steal the spotlight from Super Bowl XLII

Greyhound Soul

Tonight and Every Night
(re-silence Records)

Smokin'!

Music to inhale by

Tom Petty

Highway Companion
(American)

The Rules

Musical taste reveals more than you think

Plain White T's

A release worth waiting for

Stumbler Party

Slobberbone may just be the best bar band in America. They have the 'hacks' to prove it.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

The Last DJ (Warner Bros.)

Celebrity Skin Peel

A one-stop guide to the latest round of pop-star foolishness and bad behavior

A.C. Cotton

Half Way Down (A.C. Cotton)

Stage Dives

Veteran musicians say what's to like, hate about Valley venues

Molten Wax

Gimme Shelter Again

The Green Room's Altamont 2 takes rock back into the bowels of hell

Repackaged Goods

The boxed-set dilemma: When are four CDs too little and three CDs too much respect?

Recordings

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS, AND JAYHAWKSDESERT SKY PAVILION, JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION THE ROXY, MATTHEW SWEET, AND SONNY LANDRETHTHE ROCKIN' HORSE APRIL 25, 1995

BIG WAX BUILDUP

IS VINYL REALLY THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION OR ARE PEOPLE JUST WAXING NOSTALGIC?

RECORDINGS

RANDOM REVIEWS