Tom Petty

'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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Live: Todd Snider Takes Us All For A Beer Run At Joe's Pub

​Todd Snider Joe's Pub Wednesday, February 4 Better Than: Any stand-up comedian you could've seen tonight Todd Snider never says "I wrote this song"; it's always "I made this up." Crucial distinction. He takes his craft too seriously to use so formal a word as "write" to describe the genesis ... More >>

Jarrod Gorbel

​Todd Snider Joe's Pub Wednesday, February 4 Better Than: Any stand-up comedian you could've seen tonight Todd Snider never says "I wrote this song"; it's always "I made this up." Crucial distinction. He takes his craft too seriously to use so formal a word as "write" to describe the genesis ... More >>

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'

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

​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 >>

Live: St. Vincent and Bon Iver Sing Your (Dad's) Favorites at BrooklynVegan's Haiti Benefit

St. Vincent, Britt Daniel, Bon Iver, Zach Galifianakis, Janeane Garofalo, and more Haiti Benefit @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg Saturday, January 23 BrooklynVegan might best be known for having the most obnoxious commenters in the entire music blogosphere (which, in fairness, is certainly no small ... More >>

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

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 >>

Free Will Astrology: December 24 through 30

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 >>

Howlin Rain and the Mythic Power of Chooglin'

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 >>

SXSW: R.E.M., D.O.A.

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 >>

Tom Petty's Super Bowl Halftime Show: Thoroughly OK

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 >>

TABLOIDED: Super Week!

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 >>

Live: Tegan and Sara at Webster Hall

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 >>

It Is What It Is

Yes (I'm Not There !), NYFF 45 (Blade Runner?) plays to its base (Don Rickles!), but what's so bad about that? (Redacted.)

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

Yes (I'm Not There !), NYFF 45 (Blade Runner?) plays to its base (Don Rickles!), but what's so bad about that? (Redacted.)

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

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

Thousands Left Extremely Tired After CMJ

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

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

Punk vets bury a radio anthem in forgettable complaints

Music

Punk vets bury a radio anthem in forgettable complaints

Letters

Punk vets bury a radio anthem in forgettable complaints

Nobody Can Touch Him

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

Music

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

Not Hop, Stomp

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

The Last Hypocrite

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

Listings

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

A Trip to Reno

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

Encore From a Utopia

Lucinda Williams’s Essence Comes Quick and Goes Slow

Dope Whites on Non-Punk

Lucinda Williams’s Essence Comes Quick and Goes Slow

The Way the Cracker Crumbles

Lucinda Williams’s Essence Comes Quick and Goes Slow

Cheap Thrills

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3

Wayne Check

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3

Swingle White Males

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3

Take This

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3

If She Makes You Happy

Freedom's Just Another Word for MP3