Brooklyn Vegan — Tickets for the Jim Gaffigan show at MSG go on fan presale today at 10AM (password: JIM). Tickets for the Ride show at Irving Plaza go on presale today at 10AM (password: SPEAKERS). Their T5 and MHOW shows are... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mekons will be touring this summer, including two NYC stops: Bowery Ballroom on July 21 and Red Hook's Jalopy Theatre on July 23. Tickets for the Bowery show go on sale Friday (5/8) at noon with an AmEx presale... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Bookworm interviewed author Rachel Kushner. Rolling Stone went behind the scenes of the Revenge of the Mekons documentary. Kickstarter interviewed Emily Books founders Emily Gould and Ruth Curry. Author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho interviewed himself at The... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — 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 showtimes at... more info

Stereogum — “The Mekons are the most revolutionary group in the history of rock ’n’ roll.” — Lester Bangs Years before the term “collective” became a convenient and gradually more irritating shorthand for bands seeking a novel descriptor, there was... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — I don’t want to talk about the Mekons. There are plenty of hardcore devotees out there who will be more than eager to tell you everything: how the Mekons are possibly the most prolific college radio act ever, how they started as snotty-nosed art st... more info

Stereogum — On their upcoming Plowing Into The Field Of Love, Danish punks Iceage show what happens when they pour all the sneering dull-blade brutality of their previous post-punk/hardcore incarnation into jangly Mekons roots-punk. The results so far have been ... more info

Stereogum — I’ve heard people compare Iceage’s new Plowing The Fields Of Love to the Mekons’ 1985 classic Fear And Whiskey, but when I listen to it, the album I’m reminded of most is the Libertines’ self-titled second record. That resemblance is most a... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mekons frontman Jon Langford will release his new solo album, Here Be Monsters, on April 1 via Bloodshot. Says Langford, "The subtext of the album is maybe the things our civilization thinks of as fixed and immovable might actually... more info

melophobe — Like Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen needs redemption and hope with his rage and bitterness, even when his despairing characters have every right to their raw anger. So, beware the synth-dominated, sappy clunkers here. That still leaves an EP’s... more info