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It's been two years since drummer Derrick Bostrom joined Cris and Curt Kirkwood onstage for a short set of Meat Puppets classics for the first time since they went their separate ways in 1995.
Curt Kirkwood turns an uninterested, deadened ear to the fashionable gossip of the music business. The Meat Puppets have gone on for three decades, including the typical rock band drug-interruptus ...
It’s the second full-length release from the veteran band, formed by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood in a Phoenix suburb in 1980, since bassist Cris was released from prison after serving 18 ...
A fascinating case in point was the Black Cat's Monday night headliner, Eyes Adrift, a band with a very successful pedigree -- guitarist Curt Kirkwood (ex-Meat Puppets), drummer Bud Gaugh (ex ...
Nothing if not purposeful, Meat Puppets leader Curt Kirkwood didn’t have a very difficult time deciding to work with Anodyne, a small Kansas City-based independent label, for the release of the ...
Meat Puppets recently welcomed back drummer Derrick Bostrom, officially reuniting the band’s original lineup of frontman Curt Kirkwood, his brother Cris on bass, and Derrick. They released their ...
The least surprising thing about Curt Kirkwood's new venture is that it's based in Austin. There's more to it than the fact that his new bandmates were based here. And it's not, as drummer and new ...
Let us agree that reviewing Golden Lies, the first Meat Puppets album in five years -- and the first to present Curt Kirkwood without brother Cris and Derrick Bostrom -- is a fool's errand for a ...
Cris Kirkwood [Meat Puppets bassist]: I remember getting up one morning – we all lived together, and Cinda may have been pregnant…or maybe [Curt’s children] were real teeny-weeny – and he ...
The original lineup of the Meat Puppets – vocalist-guitarist Curt Kirkwood, bassist-vocalist Chris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom – have recorded a new album, Dusty Notes, and set tour ...