Watch as fan's sing Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" during Florida basketball's 91-67 defeat of Tennessee in Exactech Arena.

These fateful rock auditions appeared to be going south until, suddenly, some of the most iconic bands of all time shaped up in real time.

About 60 Melrose residents protested the proposed Wildflowers Music Park festival, citing traffic, services and neighborhood ...

Mike Campbell shot to fame as Tom Petty’s guitarist in the Heartbreakers. Over the years since the group formed in 1976, ...

Get ready for an epic live show with Free Fallin the Tom Petty Concert Experience!Enjoy this vibrant musical journey remembering the one and only, Tom Petty! Watch as these highly skilled musicians ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Workers from a medical company gave Christmas gifts to more than a hundred children in North Central Florida this week. Employees of Palms Medical Group got a Wishlist for ...

In 1981, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks released duets with one another on their respective albums. Nicks had long wanted Petty to write her a song and, to her delight, he wrote two duets for them. Petty ...

Joe Courter first published the mini-tabloid sized newspaper known as the Gainesville Iguana in 1986. It remains packed with advocacy journalism.

In 1981, Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks collaborated on the song “Insider.” The duet appeared on Petty’s album Hard Promises, which was not either of the artists’ original intent. Petty wrote the song for ...

Tom Cruise received his first Oscar, an honorary award, at the 16th annual Academy Governors Awards. The actor has several connections to Southwest Florida, including visiting his late mother on Marco ...

Last weekend in Gainesville played like a homecoming of sorts at the Heartwood Soundstage — for friends and fans of Tom Petty, for Gainesville’s local-music scene, and for live-music lovers who ...

How much does it cost to live like Tom Petty? In this case, not a song. The Wall Street Journal reports Petty’s longtime Malibu, California home has sold for $11.2 million. That’s a pretty penny, but ...