Tom Petty

The Best Concerts to See in Los Angeles This Week

For any show in town see our regularly-updated concert calendar. Monday, May 13 Torches THE ECHO Torches are an L.A. band (the band that was once Torches in Trees, if your indie rock database needs an update) who've submerged themselves completely in the same kind of anthemic, happy-sad music that ... More >>

What Happened to the Reseda Country Club?

The San Fernando Valley doesn't come to mind when you think "iconic clubs," but in the 1980s the West Valley was the place to see acts like Tom Petty, Merle Haggard, Metallica and U2. See also: What Makes the Hollywood Bowl So Perfect? The Reseda Country Club, located on Sherman Way near Reseda B ... More >>

Jeff Lynne Sits At Home, Re-Recording ELO's Biggest Hits (We Visit Him There)

There's one stipulation that comes with our invitation to visit Jeff Lynne at his house: Don't tell anyone where he lives. This is mentioned more than once. You see, Lynne is a bit of a homebody. Kind of private. In the opening scene of the new documentary chronicling Lynne's life and work, Mr Blue ... More >>

Listen Up: Here Are 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 >>

Rock 'n' Roll Tailor Glen Palmer On The Time Gregg Allman Passed Out In His Store

Jennie Warren​By Justin Bolois See also: Glen Palmer Makes Clothes for Rock Gods: Living on Tom Petty's Malibu Estate, He's Tailored Duds for Everyone From Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac In this week's music feature, we profile rock n' roll tailor Glen Palmer and his helter-skelter journey desig ... More >>

Glen Palmer Makes Clothes for Rock Gods

Living on Tom Petty's Malibu Estate, He's Tailored Duds for Everyone From Bob Dylan to Fleetwood Mac

The Last DJ: The Legendary Jim Ladd Gets The Ax

​They fired Jim Ladd on a Tuesday. Ladd had been the nighttime DJ on L.A. classic rock station KLOS, in various incarnations, since 1969. He's a rare DJ with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and inspired Tom Petty's song "The Last DJ." Cumulus Media, having absorbed bankrupt former KLOS ow ... More >>

Music Picks: Amanda Palmer & Jason Webley, Tinariwen, Mastodon

Also: Wadada Leo Smith's Ten Freedom Summers, Danzig and others

There's Three Of Us, But We're Not The Beatles: The Ten Most Illogical Rap Lyrics In History

Wait, where's Ringo?​By Chaz Kangas "No one ever climbs a ladder alone," said Bill Clinton at his Hollywood Bowl fete on Saturday. This makes not a lick of sense. But perhaps he was just taking cues from the world of hip-hop, which is famous for its wildly inaccurate and illogical statements. ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: The Big Lebrewski, Whole Beast Feast, Septemberfest, Pesto Madness, Social Sundays

The Big Lebowski, where the White Russians never stop flowing.​We've already mentioned the three-day Precious Cheese Feast of San Gennaro (think: Jimmy Kimmel, Adam Carolla, food and carnival games), and in case we forget, Jar is also celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special dinner bene ... More >>

The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

Not HIS "American Girl": Tom Petty Beefs With Michele Bachmann?

​Apple pie and baseball? Nah, what's more American is good ol' fashioned political beef. We'd rather splash around in the we-know-why-it's-tepid kiddie than that cesspool, but Tom Petty supposedly issuing a cease and desist letter to Republican candidate Michele Bachmann over her use of "Ameri ... More >>

Top 10 Totally Awesome Artists Inspired by the Valley, plus She Wants Revenge's Valleyheart

​ She Wants Revenge releases Valleyheart today, the band's third full length release, which sees them submerging themselves in blissful nostalgia. Not for dark '80s sounds as they are unremittingly accused of (though, yes there is still some of that), but for the breeding grounds that made the ... More >>

Dive Bar Report: Hank's Bar

​ The Place: Hank's Bar, Stillwell Hotel, 840 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles; 213-623-7718. The Hours: 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. Sunday - Thursday; 11 p.m. - 2 a.m. Friday - Saturday. The Digs: Hank's is a little hole on the first floor of a residence hotel with gummy black booths in the back. The bar ... More >>

Countdown to Record Store Day: An Interview with RSD Co-Founder Michael Kurtz

​We've been looking forward to Record Store Day (or RSD) for awhile now. For one, it provides a welcome diversion for those of us not going to Coachella. Also, we are looking forward to all of the limited-edition vinyl releases, in-stores, and sales that come along with RSD. We keep hearing a ... More >>

Exclusive: The Rootsy 'Los Angeles' by Leslie & the Badgers, Forthcoming on Thirty Tigers

Leslie and a coupl'a Badgers​We've always loved L.A.'s Leslie Stevens and her Badgers. So naturally we were pleased as punch to learn that Nashville-based Americana label Thirty Tigers is going to be re-releasing the indie country band's quite stunning 2009 album, Roomful of Smoke, on August ... More >>

Annakim Violette: American Girl

Not "High School Musical": Free Staging of "New." Attracts Michel Gondry, Michael Cera and Sebastien Tellier

The free staging of the musical New. last weekend pulled a win for the avant-garde social scene. While experimental theater has long been a place for innovative social commentary by crafty bohemians like Beckett and Shakespeare, the emerging twentysomething generation hasn't much bothered to make th ... More >>

Screw Coco! We're With Jesus, Lou Reed, the Blind Boys of Alabama, and David Letterman!

As we continue to be amazed by the bizarre spectacle of thousands of college-age simpletons (who are all facing underemployment and debt) rallying around a multimillionaire Ivy Leaguer (and a known ginger, to boot) and helping him get the goldenest parachute in the entire history of failing upwards, ... More >>

BEER HERE!

Septemberfest: Like 4th of July, But With More Emphasis on Beer And Cover Bands

Photo Credit: Soap BeardNothing says America like beer. (Note: it also says Germany.)​Another weekend, another chance for culinary excesses and tribute bands. Almost an answer to the ethnic feasting at the Greek and Little Ethiopian festivals last weekend, Saturday's Septemberfest (America's v ... More >>

Tuesday Night in LA: Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs (MP3), Delta Spirit's Matt Vasquez, Counting Crows at the Greek

Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet On Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs' new Under the Covers 2, the pair tackle classic 1970s rock tunes by, among others, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead, Carly Simon and, in a daring maneuver, prog rock band Yes ("I've Seen All Good People"). The pair gig the Gra ... More >>

ROCK PICKS: CEU, GIRL IN A COMA, COLDPLAY, GRAVEYARD

Also, Amadou & Mariam,The Pains of Being Pure, Jason Collett, The Smithereens, and others.

A Conversation with Posdnuos of De La Soul: On Nike Run Mixes, The Current State of Hip-Hop and Oodles of O's

De La Soul, back in the day Only a handful of rap groups can be bandied about as G.O.A.T: Wu-Tang, Outkast, EPMD, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, UGK, The Geto Boys, and De La Soul. If you need an introduction to the De La -- Posdnuos, Dave/Trugoy the Dove, and Maseo -- you obviously hav ... More >>

Katy Perry Unpeeled — and Other Signs of Life in the Dead of the Grammys PressRoom

Including the buzz over Rihanna and Chris Brown, and revelations from Natalie Cole on heroin addiction

Hank You Very Much: King of the Hill Celebrates Last Episode

Nightranger: Thriller Nights Before, During and After Halloween

Steel Wheels, Darling Stilettos and the Boo-Over

Outside Lands Day 2-When Dinosaurs Attack

The crowd was older and tamer yesterday. No wholesale destruction of chain link fences, no claustrophobic clusterfucks trying to get across the endless expanse of festival ground, no scofflaws streaming into the VIP section to taunt the fools that squandered $700 a ticket for nicer bathrooms and a ... More >>

Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

If you lived there, you'd be home by then

Petty Concerns, Cloverfield Complaints

Our readers write

Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists

It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers announce two area shows

Hot on the heels of LA Weekly's map of Tom Petty's Los Angeles, and a few days prior to their appearance at the Super Bowl, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers today announced two summer shows in the L.A. area. The first will be on Wednesday, June 25 at the Hollywood Bowl; the second will be a month later ... More >>

Tom Petty's Los Angeles

Big Noise From Little Radio

Spoon at Little Radio, July 16

Pearl Jam, as Hot as the Devil’s Asshole

All in the Jamily

Rock Picks

For September 21–28

Bong Hits, Bluegrass, Pervy Puppets, and Tom Petty As Hipster

Dom Pablo and the Housebreakers

Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away

I, Songwriter

Rivers Cuomo and the search for the perfect hook

Hank Hill Rules!

For Those About to Rock

Seven nights at the Whisky, where dreams still die hard

The Contemporaries

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

When It Blows Its Stacks

Neuralgia nostalgia at the Queen Mary

A Fan's Notes

Letters

Be Hair Now

Heart Beats

Kid Loco's love song

For a New Love Song

Walter Clevenger in the heart of pop