Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on guitar and vocals in 1980, and the band eventually named themselves after one of Curt’s songs, “Meat Puppets.” Coming out of the Arizona desert ...

Today we revisit the Meat Puppets’ 1984 album, a sun-baked, country-fried, acid-addled cowpunk album that could have come from nowhere else but the Arizona desert. On July 8, 1976, a Grumman ...

Meat Puppets Love Liars: Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets told us about his Liars experience. Derrick Bostrom: The Liars were no one you’ve ever heard of; just three older guys from another ...

The post Meat Puppets Announce Reissues of SST Records Catalog and New Live Album appeared first on Consequence. Meat Puppets have teamed up with Megaforce Records for remastered reissues of the ...

Look around you. The Meat Puppets made all of this. The reason that Daytrotter exists at all can be traced back to November 10, 1995, high school days and the Phoenix, Arizona band, playing here ...

Sewn Together also features the enigmatic and engaging lyrics that are characteristic of every Meat Puppets album. “This is the story of the history of night/from the beginning it has never seen the ...

Meat Puppets’ drummer Derrick Bostrom is down ... “Whatever annoyances and hardships come from going out on tour, playing together night after night, listening to the music evolve, more ...

Not so with the Meat Puppets. After years of shifting lineups, the original band is back together and on the road, appearing in Houston at the Heights Theater on May 12, in a co-headlining show ...

It was while doing solo shows on that album that Kirkwood and his son started playing together. "Then Elmo said, 'Hey, Cris is better,'" he recalls. "So I said, ‘Hey, let’s do Meat Puppets.’ ...

Meat Puppets have been through many changes since they tumbled out of Arizona in 1980. Lineups have mutated, and yet the psychedelic alt-rockers have always managed to persevere, even after ...

Before Kurt Cobain uttered their name during the 1993 taping of MTV Unplugged, most people had never heard of the Meat Puppets. Even fewer people would have recognized brothers Curt and Cris ...