Subject: John Mellencamp

• St. Louis Concert Calendar: September 18, 2007

  September 18, 2007

• Chew Tube

  October 17, 2006

• Bryan Adams Acoustic at the Sheldon, Monday, August 4

  June 24, 2008

• Second Spin: W.A.S.P., W.A.S.P.

  July 1, 2008

• Beat Stealing Beef: Black Spade vs. Charles Hamilton

  http://media.phoenixnewtimes.comThere aren't enough beefs in hip-hop anymore. I seriously miss the golden era-- back in the days of East Coast/West Coast feuding and Pac/Biggie rivalry-- when there was a new beef starting up damn near every week. Not only did that era inspire the best diss track of all-time, Tupac's "Hit 'Em Up," it was a real-life soap opera turned tragedy that gave people something to talk about.Maybe that kind of nostalgia explains why the hip-hop blogosphere can't seem to ge

  April 6, 2009

• Same Ol' Song: Club owners owe royalties for music played on their premises

  March 12, 2008

• Ryan Bingham

  Mescalito

  November 14, 2007

• John Mellencamp

  November 14, 2007

• To Market!

  August 29, 2007

• The Whole Truth

  October 4, 2006

• John Mellencamp

  April 4, 2007

• The Elms

  December 27, 2006

• Get in the Van

  August 2, 2006

• Hot Time, Music in the City

  A feast of sweet summer sounds awaits you

  May 25, 2005

• Dullsville

  The town of Madison deserves more than this sports-movie cliché

  April 20, 2005

• Swinging State

  Kerry may have given up on Missouri, but musicians haven't

  October 6, 2004

• Best Evidence that Hoosiers Exist on the North Side

  Broadway Bistro

  September 29, 2004

• Letters

  Week of September 15, 2004

  September 15, 2004

• The Ten Most Hated Men in Rock

  (Besides Sting)

  September 1, 2004

• Soul Doubt

  Louis Schwartzberg aims for America's Heart, but mostly sticks to the surface

  June 30, 2004

• Sounds Around Town

  Week of March 24, 2004

  March 24, 2004

• Maximized

  Look for local knockout Katina Mitchell at the newsstand (and up on roofs); plus, we're feeling the Joe-mentum and want to see how John Edwards measures up, and Sanford-Brown coach John Campbell gets the kudos he deserves

  February 4, 2004

• Jack Ingram

  Saturday, November 1; Off Broadway

  October 29, 2003

• Boyd Tinsley

  True Reflections (RCA/Bama Rags)

  July 23, 2003

• Lisa Germano

  April 16, 2003

• Labor of Love

  Erstwhile St. Louis singer/songwriter Emory Joseph specializes in funky country

  April 16, 2003

• War on War Songs

  Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  March 26, 2003

• Money Shot

  9/11 was supposed to sound the death knell for irony -- so what's gonna happen to Money Mark?

  September 11, 2002

• John Mellencamp with the Wallflowers

  August 15, 2001

• Sun Dance

  May 19, 1999

• Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp

  July 1, 2009

• St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Thursday, July 2 to Sunday, July 5

  Happy July 4, everyone. Have fun, be safe and rock out. Thursday, July 2 *Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Cougar Mellencamp, GCS Ballpark (Sauget) *Brooke Waggoner, Off Broadway *Dr. Manhattan, Cicero's *Hip-Hop Showcase, Atomic Cowboy *Bridgeton Air Defense/Tenement Ruth, Mangia *Peter J Woods/ Instinct Control/ Kingston Family Singers/ Mavis Concave, Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center

  July 2, 2009

• Review Setlists: Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson at GCS Ballpark, Thursday, July 2

  Everything looked bad but the weather. I crawled through traffic in parts of Cahokia and Sauget that will never make a John Mellencamp small town video. I stared at the lines snaking around the GCS Ballpark half an hour before show time. I forked out $10 for the pleasure of later waiting an hour to get out of the parking lot. And I felt certain the hippie gyro-dudes would have more fun slinging lamb for the tailgaters than I would watching the Bob Dylan Show (featuring The Wiyos, Willie Nelson a

  July 3, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Bob Dylan on the East Side, DJ Richie Hawton at Koken Art Factory, Counting Crows Under the Arch

  The long weekend behind us, here's what you might have missed.Bob Dylan at GCS BallparkPhoto: Roy KastenBob Dylan and Donnie Herron at the end of the nightOn Thursday night, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson performed at GCS Ballpark (home to the Gateway Grizzlies minor league team) in Sauget. Roy Kasten was there and brought back a review, photos and set lists.

  July 6, 2009

• Farm Aid at Verizon Ampitheater in October

  farmaid.orgFor the past several days it has not been a matter of if Farm Aid would play in St. Louis this year. The question has been where in town organizers planned to stage the concert. That's because the organization has been dropping hints like crazy this month on its Twitter account pointing to St. Louis. Then, this week, Farm Aid began sending out press releases inviting the media to attend a major announcement at 11 a.m. this morning at the Soulard Farmers' Market. Thanks to this morning

  July 16, 2009

• Farm Aid Announced for Sunday, October 4 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, center, with St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley, left, Missouri farmer Rhonda Perry, far right, and Farm Aid Executive Director Carolyn Mugar, near right, on Thursday at Soulard Farmer's Market.My colleague Chad Garrison (via the P-D) reported this morning that Farm Aid will be held Sunday, October 4, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. On the event's website, it says that Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Dave Matthews are already confirmed f

  July 16, 2009

• Columbia Farmer Walker Claridge Featured at Farm Aid Press Conference

  Walker Claridge, center, with St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley, far left, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay, near left, and fellow Missouri farmer, Rhonda Perry, right.A rural Missouri farmer who provides produce to some of St. Louis' critically praised restaurants was a featured speaker at today's Farm Aid press conference at Soulard Farmers' Market.Walker Claridge, a 34-year-old first-generation farmer from Hatton, Missouri, said his farms in Calloway County provide food to The Crossing, L

  July 16, 2009

• An Under Cover Weekend Bands Being Revealed. Slowly.

  The third-annual An Under Cover Weekend is taking place in September at the Firebird. Like last year, the event spans two weekends: Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5, and Saturday, September 12. Unlike the past few years, however, a few of the acts have already announced who they're covering/becoming for the night. ​

  August 19, 2009

• Covering the Bases: Mike Tomko hosts his third Under Cover Weekend

  September 2, 2009

• Farm Aid

  September 30, 2009

• Show Review Setlist: Willie Nelson at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

  As he took the stage for the festival-closing set, Willie Nelson was introduced over the loudspeaker as the "President of Farm Aid." Sure enough, he is the president of the board of directors. But if Farm Aid (either the concert or the non-profit) were run like a Willie Nelson concert, we wouldn't be celebrating the show's 24th anniversary. The wheels would have come off long ago. A Willie Nelson show is loose, shambling and, at times, barely coherent. Luckily, it's also a tour of American musi

  October 5, 2009

• Review Setlist Videos: Neil Young at Farm Aid, Sunday, October 4

  John Mellencamp's introduction -- directed toward what still-sizable crowd remained after Dave Matthews had left the building -- reminded that Neil Young has been with Farm Aid since the start. He remains the cantankerous old crank the event needs. The death-by-progress of American agriculture is no joke. In a straw fedora, flannel shirt and red "Stop Factory Farms" tee, he looked ready for a desperate protest. "We need our farms back!" he shouted, and then launched into an initially lurching, t

  October 5, 2009

• Show Review Setlist: John Mellencamp at Farm Aid, October 4

  John Mellencamp and his crack band may have stolen the show at Farm Aid. The Seymour, Indiana, native opened his nine-song set with slower versions of "Pink Houses" and "Paper in Fire." The youthful intensity Mellencamp exuded when he called himself Johnny Cougar has smoldered into a slower-burning passion, as exemplified in the latter song during the chorus. Multiple members of his band lined up near the front of the stage like a marching-band squad, their voices swelling in a riotous call to a

  October 5, 2009

• Local Harvest: For the first time ever, Farm Aid comes to St. Louis.

  October 7, 2009