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 ...

Throughout the 25 years since their first single, the Mekons have upheld a punky ethos, regularly changing musical and other guises. That strategy has generally served the Chicago-via-Leeds band well, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...