For Tom Petty, the challenges on Hypnotic Eye were many: To put out an album that reclaimed his rock edge, without resorting to lo-fi hipsterisms. To deal with this world's broader betrayals, while ...
Earlier this year, Tom Petty started telling interviewers, including HitFix, that “Hypnotic Eye,” out Tuesday (29), would be a rock record that harkened back to the early days of the Heartbreakers. He ...
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 ...
Tom Petty really hit on something when he sang “the waiting is the hardest part.” For years, fans of the long-toothed rocker have been cooling their heels, awaiting an album that would recapture the ...
After the looser, freer-form excursions of 2010’s “Mojo,” Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers have tightened the screws considerably on “Hypnotic Eye.” The Gainesville, Fla., outfit’s 16th album (counting ...