Read more John Mellencamp stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1699/john-mellencamp.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:12:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45538/10-best-albums-of-2008.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDear Science tops Rolling Stone 's year-end best list with an album “that sounded the most like America in 2008." The top 10: TV on the Radio, Dear Science : "Infernal visions of war and economic desperation," but "amid the fear and loathing" is "defiance." Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs— The...http://www.newser.com/story/45538/10-best-albums-of-2008.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 21 Dec 2008 5:02:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39805/artists-complaints-about-pols-use-of-songs-off-key.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolitical campaigns routinely use popular music to help shape voters’ perceptions about their candidate. And while the practice may hit a sour ideological note with some artists, there’s not much they can—or should—do to turn off the music, since both copyright laws and free-speech doctrine support it, Christopher...http://www.newser.com/story/39805/artists-complaints-about-pols-use-of-songs-off-key.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Oct 2008 13:23:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/21257/madonna-joins-rock-hall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith a wink and a nod, Madonna became a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer last night, along with John Mellencamp and Leonard Cohen, Billboard reports. Madonna got top billing, with Justin Timberlake giving her an innuendo-laden induction speech, and Iggy and the Stooges performing punked-up covers of “Burning Up”...http://www.newser.com/story/21257/madonna-joins-rock-hall.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 11 Mar 2008 8:26:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/14021/rock-hall-of-fame-taps-madonna.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMadonna will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, the Associated Press reports. The shape-shifting pop star will formally enter the Hall at the annual ceremony on March 10 in New York, along with fellow inductees John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and the Dave...http://www.newser.com/story/14021/rock-hall-of-fame-taps-madonna.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Dec 2007 14:29:53 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/12599/its-good-to-be-the-king.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagStephen King nearly hijacked an interview with Time , bashing the media and peppering the interviewer with questions about the mag's Person of the Year. "I think it should be Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan," he says. He also said he's resigned to the fact that some movies based on his...http://www.newser.com/story/12599/its-good-to-be-the-king.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 26 Nov 2007 18:31:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/8977/mellencamp-song-enrages-jena-mayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJohn Mellencamp's song about the Jena 6 sparked the town's mayor to whip off a fax to the AP yesterday: “Jena has for months been mischaracterized in the media and portrayed as the epicenter of hatred,” he wrote. “The Mellencamp video is so inflammatory, so defamatory, that a line has...http://www.newser.com/story/8977/mellencamp-song-enrages-jena-mayor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 06 Oct 2007 17:39:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/1872/walter-reed-bars-baez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center were treated to tunes by John Mellencamp last week, but not Joan Baez—hospital officials refused to let the legendary folk singer and antiwar activist join him. A spokesman told Rolling Stone the request to include Baez came too late. Said Mellencamp: "We...http://www.newser.com/story/1872/walter-reed-bars-baez.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 May 2007 15:45:27 CDT