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The Mekons Come Full Stone Circle

In the beginning, at the dawn of Mekon time back in 1977, they played it like punk, all primal scream and screed. In the 1980s, they first offered it as the jitterings of an avant-garde collective - an "angry bedroom band," as guitarist/vocalist Jon Langford says. Next, when key band members moved to the U.S., they drenched it in Country & Western. In the 1990s, the U.K. dance scene threatened to make electric guitars as obsolete as hurdy-gurdys. But The Mekons still clung to it, only this time in the guise of total art projects, including a soft-porn album (Me,...  read more

Mekons

Few artists exemplify indie integrity like the Mekons. Less a “band” than a collective of like-minded friends—a mobile musical kibbutzim spread across two continents—the British punk rockers have kept alive the post-punk dream...  read more