Mekons
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Jeff and Spencer Tweedy, Andrew Bird Lead Tom Waits Tribute Benefit Album
The Closing Time, spearheaded by Mekons frontman Jon Langford, to help raise awareness and funds for the Chicago Independent Venue League
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Mekons Fight off Darkness with Stout Hearts and Great Songs on 'Exquisite'
Recorded remotely during the pandemic, the eternally enduring post-punk crew's latest is a fine addition to their enormous catalog
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The Mekons to Release 'Exquisite,' Surprise New Album Recorded in Isolation
Group's latest, a Bandcamp exclusive, "recorded in splendid physical isolation on mobile phones, broken cassette recorders, clay tablets and other ancient technologies"
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Mojo Nixon, Jon Langford Debate Alt-Country, Sing Johnny Cash's 'Big River'
Waco Brothers leader joins Nixon, Robbie Fulks and others to explore the genre's origins on Sirius XM
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Waco Brothers Compile Political Anthems for New Album 'Resist'
Chicago-based country punks' latest bundles songs from across their 25-year discography
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Review: The Mekons Reboot Their Anglo-American Punk-Country-Dub on 'Deserted'
Recording near Joshua Tree, the scrappy UK punk vets find timely survival metaphors in the desert.
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Watch the Mekons' Trippy Joshua Tree Excursion in 'Lawrence of California' Video
Track will appear on British punk collective's forthcoming album, 'Deserted'
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Hear Robbie Fulks and Cowpunkers the Mekons' Wild 'Beaten and Broken'
Country provocateur teams up with U.K. punks for the collaborative album 'Jura'
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Mekons Challenge Discriminatory Indiana Law With Free Doc Screening
People can see 'Revenge of the Mekons' for free by tweeting #WeAreIndiana and #MekonsMovie
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Ancient & Modern 1911-2011
Click to listen to Mekons' 'Geeshie' Barely famous after 30 years of damning the marketplace, Mekons fear no genre. They all but invented country punk in the mid-Eighties, but dabbled in everything from indie-rock thunder to baffling electronic albums. Ancient & Modern, their first in four years, is meaty and grizzled folk rock. Sally Timms’ near-whisper […]
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