Tom Petty

Some of the most honest moments occur in interviews Wharton conducted with Petty’s daughter Adria Petty, who was also an executive producer for the documentary.

Decades after the start of their career, the Goo Goo Dolls have added a first to their extensive discography — a holiday album.

Each unreleased song is beautiful and melodic, ranging from cozy ballads to soft rockers, and there is not a single filler lyric in the entire album.

On Thursday, Amen Dunes, the musical indie rock project of McMahon, played August Hall in San Francisco. The show was the first in his winter 2019 tour in support of his newest record, the critically acclaimed 2018 album Freedom.

I thought I had maybe written a column, but Olivia was the person who convinced me I actually had. She helped me see that what I had written wasn’t just a scrappy collection of silly memories, but something personal and cohesive.

I found out on the train ride home from Lake Tahoe, where I had spent the weekend. In honor of him, I listened to his music on shuffle, old and new, Highway Companion to Damn the Torpedoes, and watched golden fields of fried grass and stark black cows run past my window. “Square One” consoled me as I traced streams into orange forests. “Rebels” scored the train’s trek across a Sacramento bridge. Tom Petty was dead, and I wasn’t crying. I was remembering.

In what is being billed as Petty’s last time in the bay, he and the Heartbreakers gave a give-it-your-all performance of excellent craftsmanship.

What's the Fourth of July without the essentials? Music essentials, that is. These songs are from simpler times in America and remind us all that today we really can have a party in the USA.