Bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom met in high school in Phoenix and started their first punk band, Atomic Bomb Club, in the late ’70s. Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on ...

Three legendary musicians from SST’s prime era are teaming up for a tour this spring. The Meat Puppets and the Minutemen’s Mike Watt (with his early 2000s era backing band The Jom and Terry Show) are ...

The Meat Puppets were never your average punk band. They listened to Neil Young — in the 70s. "It's one of the reasons we weren't entirely accepted by the punk-rock scene," says Cris Kirkwood, who ...

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The Meat Puppets classic SST catalog, which spans from 1981 through 1993, has been remastered from its original format and will be reissued by Megaforce Records on 180-gram vinyl and CD, with bonus ...

In August 2017, all the original members of the Arizona rock and roll band the Meat Puppets got together for the first time in 22 years to perform. Today, XPN premieres a new song, "Warranty," from ...

Despite bassist Cris Kirkwood‘s publicized drug abuse and eventual incarceration, he and his brother Curt have successfully rebounded, and they’ve turned what could have been a lame reunion into a ...

For the longest time, Meat Puppets bassist-vocalist Cris Kirkwood's biography might have been titled "Rock and Roll Cautionary Tale, Part 947." Strung out, gut-shot (literally, by a post office ...

Alt-country maverick Earle's new album, "Townes," pays tribute to the late Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. This show opens the Atlanta Botanical Garden's annual summer concert series. 8 p.m.