John Mellencamp

Springsteen made an unannounced appearance near the end of Mellencamp's concert at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark Near the end of John Mellencamp‘s set Sunday night at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, surprise guest Bruce Springsteen came out to join him on “Pink Houses.” Springsteen didn’t have a guitar, but he sang the entirety of the second verse to roars from the crowd. They locked voices for the final “vacation down in the Gulf of Mexico” verse.…

Willie Nelson is hitting the road this summer on his annual Outlaw Music Festival Tour, and Bob Dylan is joining for all 26 shows. They’ll be accompanied on the first leg by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and John Mellencamp on the second. Billy Strings, Brittney Spencer, Celisse, and Southern Avenue will also be playing with them at various stops along the way. It kicks off June 21 in Alpharetta, Georgia. “This year’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour promises to be the biggest and best yet with this lineup of…

"I am not being callous, and I know it will be painful to see. But, sad to say, I think it’s the only way to shock America out of its stupor," singer says John Mellencamp, a longtime advocate for gun control, issued a statement Friday condemning gun violence and encouraging America to confront the “carnage” in order to end it. “Excuse me for stating the obvious truth.  I do so out of love for this country and the pain of learning, once again, that children have been killed by gun violence,”…