Tom Petty

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 5/24/13

If you need even more shows to choose form, be sure to check out our comprehensive and constantly updated New York Concert Calendar. These are the 10 best this weekend.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Beacon Theatre - 5/20/13

Better Than: Having one foot in the grave. Imagine Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers drop a new LP, and it's just killer. Not just "killer" in that Echo or Mojo way, as in a killer document of a killer band doing what it was hatched to do. I mean in that Wildflowers or Full Moon Fever way, that damn ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/20/13

Need plans? Check out any of these 10 shows around the city this week.

Torche Are Happy, Think Nickelback Are Garbage

Miami stoner rock band Torche write music that's something of a paradox. It's definitely heavy, but it's also sunny and pop. Is it metal? Some say yes. Some say no. You can decide for yourself if you see them play Saint Vitus Saturday night. Guitarist Andrew Elstner spoke to us from Florida, where t ... More >>

Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

By Daniel Kohn For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded wo ... More >>

Star-ry Eyed Alexz Johnson Cuts Through the Bull and Regains Her Independence

Alexz Johnson really loves Brooklyn. It shows on her face with the way she lights up whenever her neck of the woods is mentioned. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter/actress relocated to the borough with one goal for herself as an artist: total scene immersion. It's a pretty good goal when you have to ... More >>

The Men Get Out of the Gutter

Brooklyn's post-hardcore noise addicts clean up but won't turn it down

Dave Grohl and Other Rockers Toast L.A.'s Sound City

Kings of the Stone Age

The New 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 >>

Live: Kip Moore Brings A Little Bit Of Country To New York City

Kip Moore Bowery Ballroom Friday, August 3 Better than: Having to take the train to Long Island or bus to New Jersey. Nearly halfway through his set, after opening with Up All Night favorites "Crazy One More Time" and "Beer Money" and throwing in a Ryan Bingham cover for good measure, Kip Moore di ... More >>

'Stones Fest'

20 Albums From 1991 That Can Still Be Thought-Pieced To Death Before The Year Ends

20. Tom Petty, Into The Great Wide Open 19. Skid Row, Slave To The Grind 18. Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque 17. Prince & The New Power Generation, Diamonds & Pearls

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Jarrod Gorbel

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #4: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, "Don't Pull Me Over"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Here is the moment where Jeff Lynne finally captures the hard-earned title of "second worst Wilbury."

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

'CMJ: Mexican Summer Showcase'

Week in Review: Bootcut Shorts

May we all look this relaxed in this situation. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week the words "Kanye West" became synonymous with social media, the rapper performed at Facebook while dissing Twitter, performed at Twitter while dissing his mother's old boyfriends, then joined Twitter, a thing he t ... More >>

Live: Tom Petty Looks Like an Anorexic Monkey, Sounds Like a Champ at Madison Square Garden

Another time at MSG Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Buddy Guy Madison Square Garden July 28, 2010 Tom Petty looks like an anorexic monkey, and his voice is so nasal it makes Bob Dylan sound like a death-metal grunter. But he's a hell of a songwriter, and the Heartbreakers are one of the two or thre ... More >>

Jason Collett+Zeus

Rolling Stone Domain Name Panic a "Glitch," Also Sign of Worldwide Lack of Any Kind of Faith in the Magazine

​Well, that was fun while it lasted. Sometime this morning, the Rolling Stone website disappeared from the Internet, leaving only a goofy placeholder page and the catcalls of thousands of people who were all too ready to believe that the dinosauric old-media mag had either a), let its domain n ... More >>

Evan Dando

An Early Look at Mermaid Oyster Bar in the West Village

Local bivalves: Peconic Bay and Blue Point oysters​ Mermaid Oyster Bar, new sister restaurant to the Mermaid Inns, was described by owner Danny Abrams as being "meant to invoke the feeling of being on vacation at the beach."

CMJ: Surfer Blood at the Cake Shop; Free Energy, the Golden Filter, and Cold Cave at Webster Hall's Studio

You'll never be this young again. Surfer Blood photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​You feel sorry for Surfer Blood, you really do. It's CMJ Tuesday, there's some invisible wheel turning, and when you walk into the basement of Cake Shop at 4:30pm on a sunny afternoon you all of a sudden know where the arr ... More >>

New Free Energy's "Free Energy" Is Making Us Miss All Kinds of Things Right Now

The only time the DFA-signed, cheerfully glam Philly quintet Free Energy has let us down so far was at the Mercury Lounge, where they awkwardly shuffled through a set that was surely affected by the visibly uncomfortable jeans the frontman was wearing. (They'll hopefully avenge themselves on New Y ... More >>

What Paul McCartney on the Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Sounded Like From the Ground

The author's view Paul McCartney Ed Sullivan Theater Marquee Roof Wednesday, July 15 Like everybody else, the helicopters await Paul. First one, chopping ambiently over Broadway, then two more. When the 67-year old ex-Beatle finally comes onto the marquee roof of the David Letterman-occupied Ed Su ... More >>

Risk-Taking with Vampire Weekend, Wells Tower, John Wray, and the Happy Ending Series at Joe's Pub

The official theme of last night's Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub was "taking risks." Host Amanda Stern credited this idea to musical guests Vampire Weekend, claiming that she'd polled disparate subjects (her landlord, a 311 operator, a physicist, novelists John Wray and Arthur ... More >>

Butch Walker

Free Will Astrology: December 24 through 30

Tom Petty's Super Bowl Halftime Show: Thoroughly OK

TABLOIDED: Super Week!

'Oh, Right . . . Hooray!': Weird Election Night

Here Comes Your 14th Breezy Breakdown

Mr. Petty inspires more Full Moon Fever, but not much else

A Running Diary of the Billboard Music Awards

Thousands Left Extremely Tired After CMJ

Triple Whammy

Tsuris-racked Christian spends her own money on Tex-Mex Disney breakup set

Pick Hacks

Punk vets bury a radio anthem in forgettable complaints

Frat Daze, Clambake, Anyways, It's Still Country-Soul to Him

Letters

Nobody Can Touch Him

Lots of heretofore unthinkable cover versions assure first place for the little British guy

Music

Not Hop, Stomp

The Last Hypocrite

Listings

A Trip to Reno

Encore From a Utopia

Lucinda Williams’s Essence Comes Quick and Goes Slow

The Way the Cracker Crumbles

Wayne Check

Swingle White Males

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