For Tom Petty fans, the 'R' in NPR now stands for 'rock': Petty and the Heartbreakers' upcoming new album, 'Hypnotic Eye,' is currently streaming in full at the public radio network's website. Ready ...

We still have a few weeks of waiting standing between us and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' new 'Hypnotic Eye' LP -- but as he's explained in the past, Petty understands that the waiting is the ...

As early as November 2012, Tom Petty knew he and The Heartbreakers were already onto something special in the studio as they worked on the follow-up to 2010’s muscular Mojo. “This band is so efficient ...

“Hypnotic Eye,” only the second Heartbreakers album in 12 years, closes the argument. Opening with a basic statement of purpose – “I’m gonna make my way through this world some day / I don’t care what ...

MALIBU, Calif. — Four years after the bluesy Mojo, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are roaring back with swagger and spleen on 13th studio album Hypnotic Eye, pugnacious rock 'n' roll that recalls ...

A new era is born.

When it comes to heartland rock, Tom Petty has always been overshadowed by Bruce Springsteen’s considerable shadow. And while the Boss has been looked at as the gold standard, Petty and his ...

Hypnotic Eye finds the band in similar territory, in what often feels like an homage to Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere-era Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Hypnotic Eye provides the usual solid, ...

When Tom Petty emerged in the mid-Seventies, he was the perfect down-to-earth rock star for the times: a hungry Southern boy playing tight rock & roll in mellow Southern California, kicking against ...