Sally Timms wipes at her blouse, utterly nonplussed. Interrupting Jon Langford’s story about visiting a cemetery in North Wales, she is neither upset nor grossed out, but as calm and collected as when ...

DAVIES: The Mekons are a British band. But to make "Deserted," their first new album in eight years, the group went to a California studio just outside Joshua Tree National Park. The band says the ...

The Mekons, a long-running Chicago cowpunk institution (with origins in the U.K.), have made a career out of dignified obscurity. Together since the early days of the Carter administration, they have ...

West Yorkshire and Chicago's favorite folk-punks went to a Scottish island to record some traditional fare. This is one of them. It is said that there are more sheep and deer on the remote Scottish ...

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 ...

British punk collective the Mekons embrace the unreal nature of Joshua Tree in the video for their new song, “Lawrence of California.” The track will appear on the group’s forthcoming album, Deserted, ...

Critic Ken Tucker reviews new music by the British punk band The Mekons and the American country-rock band The Mavericks. Both groups have recorded new songs that were inspired by recent news events.

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 ...

The Mekons are first-generation British punk rockers who've moved through an array of genres over the decades. Their most recent album was recorded in a studio just outside Joshua Tree National Park.

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 ...

The Mekons are first-generation British punk rockers who've moved through an array of genres over the decades. Their most recent album was... The Mekons Celebrate Restlessness And Exploration On ...