“TOM PETTY’S BURIED TREASURE” KICKS OFF NEW SEASON SEPTEMBER 24 ON XM

It was announced today that Tom Petty will be returning for another season of his celebrated XM show, “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure.” With the first installment premiering Monday, September 24, “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure” will continue to blend favorite tracks from Petty’s personal collection, forgotten masterworks from the garages and used record bins of the world, and live-in-concert classics recorded by rock and roll’s most inspired practitioners. At the heart of the hour long show will be Tom Petty himself, providing informed, often hilarious, and always passionate commentary on the music that he loves best.

Among the very first artist-presented XM shows, “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure” has helped to usher in a new wave of inventive radio programming: shows based on the core idea that even the legends of popular music are, at the end of the day, listeners and fans themselves. Petty’s show reveals the simple but striking truth that the best way to understand a musician is to let them spin some records. The intimacy of the format remains the show’s hallmark.

Petty will treat fans to song such as Lee Dorsey’s “Ride Your Pony,” The Searchers’ “He’s Got No Love,” and The Pyramids’ “Penetration,” among others, when the season premiere of “Buried Treasure” airs Monday, September 24 at 10 a.m. ET on XM’s deep classic rock channel, “Deep Tracks” (XM 40). Beginning in October, “Buried Treasure” will move to Thursdays on XM 40.

New for this season, “Tom Petty’s Buried Treasure” will also be available all day every Thursday on “XMX” (XM 2), a recently launched channel that provides fans with XM’s most popular and critically-acclaimed original music shows all in one place. The XMX schedule is built around a ‘program of the day’ format designed to provide more opportunities to tune in anytime and listen to episode premieres or catch up on episodes from previous weeks or seasons.