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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 ...

An extremely tasty slice of fanboydom, Joe Angio’s music documentary “Revenge of the Mekons” presents the amoeba-like wonder of the title band (the Mekons, that is, not revenge) as a creative anomaly ...

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 ...

Acclaimed Mekons documentary Revenge of the Mekons premiered a year ago at NYC Doc fest and is now getting a proper release. It’ll screen in NYC at Film Forum from Oct. 29 – Nov. 4 with daily ...

Long-running punk crossover act the Mekons have been around for close to 40 years, so it's about time that they had their story chronicled with a documentary film. Thankfully, we now have Revenge of ...

We're better off crafting our own things in isolation. The best times when the band has really been? When we thought nobody was that interested in us, so I think that's when the really creative ...

Joe Angio's 2013 documentary, “Revenge of the Mekons,” chronicles the stylistic evolution of one of Britain's longest-running first-wave punk bands over its decades in popular culture. The Mekons ...

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 ...

Joe Angio's documentary chronicles the decades-long career of the critically-acclaimed, genre-shifting band. By THR Staff Revenge of the Mekons Still - H 2013 Founded in Leeds, England in 1977 by a ...