Occasionally, many feel country music deviates too far from the core of its pop-ready roots. Whenever that occurs, Tom Petty's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-level catalog emerges to re-root the genre — ...

What is dad rock? You know it when you hear it, so listen to 10 songs from Wilco, the Grateful Dead, Steely Dan and more. By Lindsay Zoladz Tom Petty, Patrice Rushen, Billie Eilish and more. By ...

Country music is in the DNA of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' catalog. Decades ago, before the Heartbreakers even existed in their full form, Petty was playing country songs in what he would later ...

I think about Tom Petty a lot. But in October, I think about him a little bit more. This month marks two important Tom Petty milestones— it’s the seventh anniversary of his death (Oct. 2), and the ...

A 1982 profile helmed by music journalist-turned-filmmaker Cameron Crowe about Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers has in 2025 resurfaced from obscurity to stream on Paramount+. Well, maybe not obscurity: ...