Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers News

Imagine Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers drop a new LP, and it's just killer. Not "killer" in that Echo or Mojo way, but as in a killer document of a killer band doing what it was hatched to do.

All eyes were on the South this weekend as musicians and music lovers descended on Gulf Shores, Alabama, for the 4th annual Hangout Music Festival.

Day two of the Hangout Festival kicked off much like day one - with beautiful blue skies, white-sand beaches and a bill loaded with can't miss sets.

Every great festival needs a great headliner to help close things out. And on Sunday night , the Hangout Festival snagged one of music's biggest icons for its finale: Stevie Wonder .

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been making theater runs in Los Angeles and New York, so their rehearsals for their Saturday performance at Hangout Fest were likely unusual.

GULF SHORES, Alabama - About ten minutes before headliners Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were scheduled to close Saturday's Hangout Fest , former Miss Alabama Katherine Webb came on stage.

It's a big weekend for live music on the Alabama coast, with the third annual Hangout Festival opening Friday on the public beach in Gulf Shores.

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers kicked off a 21-show tour last night at the Ford Center in Evansville, IN.

The Sugarland vocalist announced Friday that she is currently in the studio with producer Rick Rubin ,working on her debut album as a solo artist, due out this fall.

Karen O, lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, at the 2006 Coachella Valley Music Festival in Indio, Calif.

Time really flies, and it's been another year. Festival season is upon us. Interested locals will be counting down the days to Riverbend, but this weekend is Hangout Festival, in .

GULF SHORES, Alabama--Need some help picking which musicians to check out at this weekend's jam-packed Hangout Fest ? Only one of Hangout's headliners, Stevie Wonder, is mentioned in the piece.

In just two short months, Charles and David Koch's dreams of purchasing the L.A. Times have gone from a well-sourced rumor, first reported on this blog , to the catalyst for outraged essays in newspapers across the country to a protest song by none less than Ry Cooder.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers are preparing for the Thursday kick-off of their national tour that includes festival performances and theater shows.

We're a little more than a month away from the second edition of Firefly Music Festival and the music gurus over at Firefly have just released their handiwork: the hour-by-hour 2013 schedule.

Some musicians approach festivals purely as performers. Some even approach them as competitors.

SirusXM is rocking out with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. The network is kicking off the rock 'n' roll Hall of Famer's summer tour by launching two channels: "Tom Petty Radio," a limited-run channel tied to the tour, and a separate channel dedicated solely to Tom Petty SiriusXM music show, " Tom Petty 's Buried Treasure." "Tom Petty Radio" ... (more)

A splashy new event, Music City Eats: Nashville Food, Wine & Spirits Festival, was announced today.

With our concerts, festivals and benefit shows, Nashville sure knows how to put on a star-studded affair.

In just four short years, the Hangout Music Festival has become a must for music fans everywhere.