How would you like to see Bruce Springsteen's Super Bowl halftime show up close and free? ...more

January 6, 2009

How would you like to see Bruce Springsteen's Super Bowl halftime show up close and free? Producers of the Feb. 1, half time show need about 2,000 "excited fans" to be on the field during the concert by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. ...more

January 5, 2009

It's no longer rumor: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform during the Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa. ...more

September 29, 2008

Mick Jagger turned 65 last month. ...more

July 31, 2008

Photography was always just a hobby for Red Slater. The amateur's photographs, though, have appeared in magazines such as Rolling Stone, on television documentaries and in CD anthologies. In 1969 and 1970, Slater shared a dilapidated farmhouse in north Gainesville with Randall Marsh and Mike Campbell, drummer and guitarist with a local band called Mudcrutch. The bassist was Tom Petty. Slater's photographs - some are on display here and at his Web site, www.redslater.com - capture the young band rehearsing, performing and sometimes just goofing off. ...more

July 10, 2008

Bo Diddley's funeral on Saturday rocked and rolled with as much energy as his music. ...more

June 8, 2008

All praises to whatever provoked Tom Petty to make an album with his pre-Heartbreakers band Mudcrutch, because it is among the best works in a catalog that's not short on excellent work. ...more

May 8, 2008

It's not too early to wonder about possible halftime entertainment. ...more

February 3, 2008

Tom Petty didn't sing a single note. His Heartbreakers didn't strike a single chord. Not so much as a rim shot was heard Thursday from the band that will perform during the halftime show at this year's Super Bowl. ...more

February 1, 2008

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who play the Super Bowl XLII halftime show on Fox this Sunday, will play The Forum in downtown Tampa on July 16. ...more

January 29, 2008