For the encore, they covered Bob Dylan’s “I Threw it All Away,” and then The Mekons’ Jon Langford & Sally Timms — who had played Queens club TV Eye earlier in the day — came out to cover Ramones’ “I ...

After the Mekons released their first album in eight years in 2019, the long-running cowpunk outfit make a quick return with their surprise new LP Exquisite, which the band wrote and recorded while in ...

“Horror,” the Mekons’ 25th album, opens with “The Western Design,” whose reggae rhythm winks at the song’s subject: how Britain conquered Jamaica and made it “a slave-operated imperial profit ...

In Richard Lester’s 1965 Help!, two proper English matrons, dressed in balmacaans, gloves, and old-lady hats, wave to their neighbors, John, Paul, George, and Ringo, who, in the movie’s fantastical ...

Joe Angio's documentary chronicles the decades-long career of the critically-acclaimed, genre-shifting band. By THR Staff Revenge of the Mekons Still - H 2013 Founded in Leeds, England in 1977 by a ...

Seven months into 2025, the big headline is that America is a hot fuckin’ mess. Thank the maker for this better news: The Mekons are coming to town! With nearly five decades of punk deconstruction and ...

It’s safe to say there is no band quite like the Mekons. Formed in Leeds, England, in 1977 in the art-school scene that birthed their friends Gang of Four, the Mekons had no idea what they were doing, ...

For every snarling youth who spits, "Punk is dead" in 2007, there's some wise 50-year-old, who was there when it all went down. And he understands something: Rebellion never dies; it just changes.

“What’s the secret to your success?” asks a radio DJ interviewing not exactly world-famous rock ’n’ roll band the Mekons. It’s an innocent question meant to acknowledge the band’s longevity, currently ...