John Mellencamp

You Have One More Day to Submit Your Band for An Under Cover Weekend Six

The annual hero-halloween for St. Louis bands known as An Under Cover Weekend* is scheduled for September 7 and 8 at the Firebird. Want to show everyone your excellent Spice Girls impression (someone please do this)? Now's your chance. The event is taking submissions for another 31 hours as of this ... More >>

Arlo Guthrie, Roseanne Cash, the Flaming Lips and More at the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert

Arlo Guthrie | Old Crow Medicine Show | Tim O'Brien | Jimmy LaFave | Roseanne Cash | Hanson | Del McCoury Band | Jackson Browne | The Flaming Lips | John Mellencamp This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert Brady Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma March 10, 2012 After decades of neglecting the ... More >>

The 10 Most WTF Crimes Committed by Musicians

​Surely you have heard the charges made against Coheed and Cambria's bassist, Michael Todd, alleging that he robbed a Walgreens pharmacy before a performance, leaving with multiple bottles of oxycodone and hailing a taxi to the band's performance in Massachusetts. Hilariously baffling? Of cour ... More >>

Mumford and Sons at the Pageant, 6/5/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Todd Owyoung​Mumford and Sons | The Low Anthem | Matthew and the Atlas The Pageant June 5, 2011 For all of you who weren't among the lucky clickers who obtained tickets to last night's Mumford and Sons show at the Pageant, this is how it went down: At 4:30 p.m., a line forms. Not anxious adol ... More >>

Mumford and Sons, Ke$ha, the Avett Brothers, Wilco and Tornado Warnings: Beale Street Diary

Katie Moulton​Ed: Last weekend, the Beale Street Music Festival welcomed one of the stranger lineups of the season to Memphis: Cee-Lo Green, Ke$ha, Mumford & Sons, Jon Mellencamp, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Gregg Allman and more. We sent Katie Moulton on a last minute road-trip and she brought ... More >>

Bob Dylan's Five Least Receptive Audiences

Image via​Bob Dylan played his first ever show in Vietnam over the weekend as part of a brief tour of Asia. There was some amount of fanfare associated with this tour, and this stop in particular, given that so much of Dylan's most vibrant work was written as a response to military action in p ... More >>

Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo Part of a new Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Exhibit

Annie ZaleskiJeff Tweedy at the Pageant, 2008​Over the weekend, A to Z was in Cleveland and headed to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. To her delight, there was a new exhibit on display called Kick Out the Jams, which focused exclusively on music from the Midwest. Our fair region was w ... More >>

Show Review Photos Setlist: The Thrill Isn't Gone for John Mellencamp at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Saturday, November 6

Katie Moulton​Taking up an acoustic guitar for "Save Some Time to Dream," John Mellencamp stood alone onstage and told a story about his father, who regularly asks him if he's "having any fun." The roots-rock veteran did look like he was having fun last night at the Fox Theatre, punching all h ... More >>

John Mellencamp

Movie screens at 6:45 p.m. music starts at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, November 6. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.

Concert Review: Band of Heathens and Deer Tick Scare Up Bluesy Rock at Off Broadway, Sunday, October 31

Kate McDanielDeer Tick @ Off Broadway​At first blush, a Band of Heathens and Deer Tick double bill at Off Broadway seemed a strange pairing. First blushes, however, are no match for good guitars, good songs and a damn good Halloween party.

Review Photos Setlist: Kings of Leon Remains Poop-Free in St. Louis, Saturday, September 25

Todd OwyoungKings of Leon's Caleb Followill at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. More photos here.​Let's just get this out of the way now: pigeon shit, pigeon shit, pigeon shit. No rock concert has been stigmatized by bird feces as much as last evening's Kings Of Leon performance at Verizon W ... More >>

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of August 16-22

* = coming to town, = local ​Vintage Vinyl 1. COHEED & CAMBRIA---Year Of The Black Rainbow* 2. THE FORCE---Everybody Wins 3. KEM---Intimacy* 4. BLACK CROWES---Croweology* 5. SLEIGH BELLS---Treats 6. ESPARANZA SPALDING---Chamber Music Society 7. JOHN MELLENCAMP---No Better Than This 8. METRI ... More >>

New Release Highlights for August 17: Toadies, Kem, John Mellencamp, an Illinois expatriot and more.

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Iron Maiden's Final Frontier​*Iron Maiden, The The Final Frontier Iron Maiden guitarist Dave Murray says the new album features "straight-ahead, uptempo rock ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of August 9

Canadian near-supergroup Wolf Parade play The Pageant on November 20. ​ Billiken Club *Anais Mitchell, September 9 *Callers, October 25 *Field Music, October 2 *Light Pollution, October 4 *Sarah Jaffe, September 2 *Times New Viking, October 14 Cicero's *Dirt Daubers, September 9 Family Are ... More >>

John Mellencamp Playing at the Fabulous Fox

Todd OwyoungJohn Mellencamp at Farm Aid, October 4, 2009​On Saturday, November 6, John Cougar Mellencamp (affectionately known as "the Coug" around these parts) will be performing at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. The "opener" for the night is a screening of the documentary It's About You, which is ... More >>

The Top Ten St. Louis Concerts of 2009

We reviewed a lot of shows this year -- nearly 100, judging by the number of posts in the "Show Reviews" archive. Deciding which 2009 concerts comprised the creme de la creme wasn't easy, to say the least. However, the following stood out from the pack. What did we miss? What were your favorites thi ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Farm Aid

12:30 p.m. Sunday, October 4. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

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

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 cove ... More >>

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 t ... More >>

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 F ... More >>

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 Sa ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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/ Insti ... More >>

Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp

5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2. GCS Ballpark, 2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois.

Second Spin: W.A.S.P., W.A.S.P.

Bryan Adams Acoustic at the Sheldon, Monday, August 4

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

Ryan Bingham

Mescalito

John Mellencamp

7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 15. Scottrade Center, South 14th Street and Clark Avenue.

St. Louis Concert Calendar: September 18, 2007

To Market!

John Mellencamp

Freedom's Road (Universal Republic)

The Elms

9:30 p.m., Friday, December 29. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Chew Tube

The Whole Truth

Dullsville

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

Swinging State

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

Best Evidence that Hoosiers Exist on the North Side

Broadway Bistro

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

Jack Ingram

Saturday, November 1; Off Broadway

Boyd Tinsley

True Reflections (RCA/Bama Rags)

Lisa Germano

Lullaby for Liquid Pig (Ineffable/imusic)

War on War Songs

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

John Mellencamp with the Wallflowers

Monday, Aug. 20; Riverport Amphitheatre

Sun Dance

Sound advice on the summer's hottest concerts