BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — John Mellencamp's 14-year-old son has started a social networking campaign on Facebook that he hopes will get his rocker dad...
David Wild | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment
Here's my personal Thanksgiving playlist, designed to help put us all in the proper mindset for Thursday's holiday, and arguably for every other day here on earth too.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.10.2009 | Entertainment
The eternally youthful Jon Bon Jovi and his disciples have built their ministry upon the same New Jersey rock that Bruce Springsteen assembled his flock, and the band used this album as a slight genuflection to their own glory days.
Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.
Don McNay | Posted 10.10.2009 | Impact
It could be that President Obama is a small town guy after all. His early adulthood on the south side of Chicago is where he found a "small town" environment that embraced him.
Posted 10.04.2009 | Impact
For two and a half decades, the Farm Aid concert has raised money for family farms and promoted local, organic food. All of the usual suspects are the...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 10.18.2009 | Entertainment
John Mellencamp says his next album was made in part at Sun Studios. "Everything was set up exactly as Cash and Elvis Presley recorded."
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.13.2009 | Entertainment
The album still kicks its multi-hit, multi-platinum predecessor's ass, alternating between big guitar'd, Creed-inspired grunge-a-longs and country-bred, beer hall breakup ballads across its twelve powerful tracks.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment
You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.
AP | Posted 05.18.2009 | Entertainment
INDIANAPOLIS — The 14-year-old son of rock singer John Mellencamp has won a division title in the Indiana Golden Gloves boxing tournament. Hud ...
Wayne Kramer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media
That the recording industry is in the toilet is no surprise. How is it that artists don't see the solution?
John Mellencamp | Posted 04.22.2009 | Entertainment
Had the music industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians could still create music rather than having to market it as well.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment
Featuring over twenty musicians from four continents who have never met, "Don't Worry" makes its auspicious debut today, on Martin Luther King Day, and is featured here.
Rich Silverstein | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
Our country is all the "real America," from sea to sea. It's one place and in tough times, it's all the more important to remind ourselves of what we share, rather than what divides us.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.28.2008 | Entertainment
The black and white video takes its subject matter beyond the implied anti-war message of Mellencamp's tag line "bring peace to this troubled land."
Bil Browning | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media
Hoosier son John Mellencamp has recorded an ad for Obama's campaign that's playing around Indiana. iPhone users: Click to watch As my partner, Jeram...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.15.2008 | Entertainment
John Mellencamp, one of the first to oppose the war in Iraq, has an interview in the LA Times talking about his new music and his political discontent...
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green
While we're told that big agribusiness will save us, it's a system centralizing their control of our food system that got us here.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
When it was announced that 600 Starbucks outlets were closing, the music business shared the hit: less stores, less counter and display space, less product, less revenue.
The Uptake | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home
At a Hillary rally in Indiana, John Mellencamp played a song. Mary Steenburgen told me that she and Hill are gal pals and that their daughters grew up together and that Hillary brags about Chelsea.
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Madonna, pop music's quick-change artist, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday and paid tribute to people who e...
Rolling Stone | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
At some recent John McCain campaign rallies, John Mellencamp's "Our Country" and "Pink Houses" have been booming out over the speakers. Uplifting hear...
Politico | Anne Schroeder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Last night, another star took to the stage to croon the audience at the Val Air Ballroom, although instead of performing for Mike Huckabee supporters,...
Shelby Highsmith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Between the back row seating and defective WiFi connection, I had a little bit of technical difficulty getting the video stream broadcast out of John ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Madonna was announced as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee on Thursday along with John Mellencamp, The Ventures, Leonard Cohen and The Dave Clark ...
AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | Entertainment