"The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll." -- Lester Bangs Years before the term "collective" became a convenient and gradually more irritating shorthand for bands ...

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 ...

In 2005, Robbie Fulks released “Countrier Than Thou,” a song with a rockabilly twang and Bukowski ramble that skewered the hypocrisy of those who lambast mainstream country but come from anywhere but ...

Compared to the relatively slick output of their fellow Class of ’77 British punks, the Mekons might not have seemed like real contenders. When the Clash released their anthem “White Riot,” the Mekons ...

Members of the British punk band The Mekons have been making music together for about 30 years now. Originally inspired by The Sex Pistols, the group has wandered far from its roots. The Mekons' new ...

Normally I’d recommend a rock ’n’ roll documentary to the band’s fans, but since the cult of the Mekons is infinitesimally small, if fanatically devoted, I have no problem recommending “Revenge of the ...

“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 ...

Mekons have handed last year’s terrific HORROR over to Pere Ubu‘s Tony Maimone, who also played in Mekons in the early ’90s, for a full album remix titled HORRORble (Mekons Vs. Tony Maimone In Dub ...

Punk and folk music don’t seem like the most intuitive coupling, but for the long-running band the Mekons, the combination makes sense musically and politically. Director Joe Angio’s loving tribute, ...

Four decades into a career as unusual as any in rock 'n' roll, the Chicago-via-Leeds musical institution known as The Mekons continues to find new inspiration in old sounds. The left-leaning, ...