More than two decades ago, I wrote this about the Mekons, an English-born punk/alt-country band that staggered to life in 1977: “The Mekons are a boys-and-girls ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Born in art school at Leeds University in 1977, the Mekons long ago conceded that fame and fortune were outside their grasp, and it kind of shows. The band’s fan site, while kept current, is run by a ...

Their albums don’t sell particularly well (even by small-label standards) and they often play to less-than-packed houses, yet few bands can match the influence and longevity of the Mekons. Over the ...

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 ...

It is said that there are more sheep and deer on the remote Scottish island of Jura than there are people. Improbably enough though, there is a recording studio. "The Mekons' very early recordings ...

Bands reflect history as much as they help shape it. With a career that spans more than three decades, the Mekons have found themselves by choice and coincidence amid myriad social and cultural ...

The second set, on the other hand, was a disaster. “Play something you know!” went one humiliating shouted request as the night wore on and the group searched its extensive catalog for seldom-played ...

The world is doomed, but at least we've got the Mekons. For nearly 50 years, the British punk band has always done things its own way — out of stubbornness, survival or maybe a little bit of both.

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.