For the encore, they covered Bob Dylan’s “I Threw it All Away,” and then The Mekons’ Jon Langford & Sally Timms — who had played Queens club TV Eye earlier in the day — came out to cover Ramones’ “I ...

Sally Timms is a chameleon: the way she sings depends on the musical environment behind her. On Cowboy Sally’s Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos (1999), recorded with Chicago alt-country pals, her ...

Sally Timms is known for her estimable vocal contributions to the Mekons, a 20-year-old punk-turned-reggae-turned-country-turned-avant-garde-rock group that continues to record. With her second ...

Larry Sultan’s much praised photo series “The Valley” captures actors in between takes at X-rated-film shoots. The centerpiece of the collection is a stark portrait of porn star Sharon Wild: wearing ...

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British chanteuse Sally Timms used to treat country music as a joke—literally. In the early ’80s, before she joined UK art-punk collective the Mekons, she sang with a band of women called the ...

The Mekons are not like any other band. Almost an art collective as much as a regular rock band, the British outfit was born out of the same late-'70s Leeds punk rock scene that birthed such legends ...

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Sally Timms' voice is almost too pretty for punk, a shimmering contrast to the rough edges of rock 'n' roll. But that quality has often worked to her advantage: She has long been the Mekons' secret ...

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