Mekons

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Mekons' Jon Langford will share the stage and go “song-for-song“ on their fall dates.

The Sadies also have Toronto New Years shows with Mekons‘ Jon Langford & Sally Tims.

The free San Francisco festival returns to Golden Gate Park on Sep 30 - Oct 2 with Elvis Costello, Drive-By Truckers, Cymande, Arooj Aftab, Waxahatchee, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Crockett, and more.

The L.A. show will be Pavement's first show in 12 years.

Washington DC native Jim Saah (who took the photo on the cover of Fugazi's Repeater) is publishing a book of never before seen photos from the DC punk/hardcore scene and beyond. Here's a sneak peak...

Touch and Go and Quarterstick's rosters include Slint, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jesus Lizard, Mekons, Naked Raygun, TV on the Radio, Brainiac, Calexico, Big Black and tons more.

"Locked down in various locations stretching from the West Coast of California to the East End of London, mekons sang and played into their cellphones, e-mailing, uploading and Whatsapping their wailings, beatings, scratchings and strummings across the globe through the billions of interconnected nodes of our networked panopticon."

For Bandcamp's Juneteenth fundraiser (which benefits the NAACP), there are new exclusive/special releases by Sonic Youth, Tunde Adebimpe, Spirit Adrift, The Front Bottoms, Fantastic Negrito, Deerhoof, Jason Isbell, clipping., and more...

John Zorn, Beth Orton, Bill Frisell, Mekons, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Laurie Anderson, Panda Bear, and more musicians have signed a petition from Music Workers Alliance that aims to help artists who are all struggling during the coronavirus pandemic and calls for ”basic fairness in the digital marketplace”...

Plus: more tributes to Gill from Blur's Graham Coxon, Greg Dulli, The Futureheads, REM's MIke Mills, Colin Meloy, Noveller's Sarah Lipstate, Geoff Rickly and more.