Grammy Award winners Joe Walsh and Zac Brown are joining NBC’s The Voice season 28 as mega mentors. Walsh, a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, will be teaming up with judges Niall Horan and Reba McEntire as their teams head into the Knockout Round on Monday, October 27, 2025.
Zac Brown will be lending his expertise to members of Michael Bublé’s and Snoop Dogg’s teams. Season 28 marks Brown’s first time taking part as a mentor on NBC’s The Voice.
New episodes of season 28 air on Mondays at 8pm ET/PT.
NBC offered this description of season 28’s Knockout Round: “Alongside the coaches, Walsh and Brown bring their dynamic artistry and long-standing industry experience to guide the artists into their most powerful performances yet. Each coach enters the Knockouts with eight artists. With no saves or steals in this round, the competition is intense. Coaches alone choose the winner from their team to advance to the Playoffs, the last round before the Live Shows.
The stakes have never been higher as this season’s Knockouts feature the first-ever ‘Mic Drop’ button, given to each coach to use on an artist from their respective teams whose performance blows them away. Viewers at home will have the opportunity to vote for the ‘Mic Drop’ winner among the four.
The artist with the most votes is awarded a performance at ‘The Rose Parade Presented by Honda,’ live on Jan. 1, 2026.”
The Voice was created by John de Mol. Mark Burnett, Audrey Morrissey, Amanda Zucker, Kyra Thompson, Adam H. Sher, Barry Poznick, and de Mol executive produce.
This post was last modified on January 15, 2026 9:25 pm