Welcome to the 11th Songs of the Week of 2025. It was quite a week for songs from ’90s artists. As a teenager, in 1995, I once saw Stereolab open for Pulp at the Brixton Academy in London and both ...

A look at what it means to find escape by playing the guitar via Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell and how the instrument helped him escape his surroundings.

As a guitarist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Mike Campbell co-wrote many of the band’s breakthrough songs.

1976: President of the Young Liberals, Peter Hain, is acquitted of robbing a branch of Barclays bank. On the same day, singer-songwriter Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister’s home in Queen’s, New ...

Campbell’s revelation comes in a video Fender has shared as it rolls out two tributes to the Red Dog: the Stories Collection ...

Guitar giant Fender has officially launched the latest addition to their Stories Collection—an ongoing series of instruments that "pays tribute to iconic Fender guitars and basses that have been ...

As the 1970s came to a close, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers enjoyed immense success with their previous album, Damn the Torpedoes. However, the benefits of fame came with hidden costs. Long periods ...

“Yes, Tom [Petty] was not a perfect person. Neither am I. Neither are you, you know,” guitarist Mike Campbell says, a bit ...

Mike Campbell’s new book details long journey from his underprivileged upbringing in Florida through the Heartbreakers' rise ...

Tom Petty was already the scribe behind the greatest heartland rock songs, but he knew there were more people behind every ...

Mike Campbell used the word “rattled” to describe how he and Tom Petty felt when they arrived in Tulsa in 1974. They survived a drive through a tornadic storm while navigating to The Church ...