Sonic Youth comes to the Wilbur Theatre Nov 21, 2009
It plays two shows at the Wilbur, the first with openers the Feelies and the second with the Meat Puppets. Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. Also Nov. 23. (Boston Globe)
iPod Shuffle: Thurston Moore Nov 20, 2009
We spoke with Moore this week ahead of Sonic Youth s shows at the Wilbur Theatre Sunday (which is sold out) and Monday (with Meat Puppets and Cold Cave opening). Tickets are $29. (Boston Globe)
Fall Leagues in full swing, rumor mills about to be Nov 4, 2009
Driving around Phoenix in my rental car, I ve had the excellent new REM live CD and recently released Meat Puppets CD, Sewn Together, cranked on the sub-standard stereo while I puff on a Padron (windows down; they frown on cigar smoking in rentals these days) ... If you ever liked the Meat Puppets (or even if you didn t or didn t know their music), I d suggest you give this CD a listen ... Dave wow The Meat Puppets. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Eminem part of Voodoo fest in New Orleans Oct 30, 2009
Closing acts Sunday include Lenny Kravitz, the Flaming Lips and Meat Puppets. "It's going to be a lot of fun," said Pepper Keenan, guitarist for the heavy metal band Down, which performs Saturday. (MSNBC -- Music)
Celebrity birthdays for Oct. 18-24 Oct 15, 2009
Bassist Cris Kirkwood of Meat Puppets is 49. Christian singer TobyMac (dc Talk) is 45. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Distracted Drivers Kill 6,000 Last Year Oct 1, 2009
The Repub Meat Puppets will scream socialism,marxism,and parade out some elderly people to throw under the bus then come out with a fake plan that does nothing. They will then get their cash payments from the lobbyists. (CBS News)
Valley Music Scene Sep 19, 2009
Meat Puppets - Sunday, Sept. 20l Hopmonk Tavern - Sebastopol; 829-7300. Reader Comments. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Can't miss shows Sep 16, 2009
Kirkwood has fully recovered from serious legal and substance-abuse problems that caused the first version of the Meat Puppets to implode in the mid-90s ... The Meat Puppets: (from left) Curt Kirkwood, Derrick Bostrom and Chris Kirkwood. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Cracker show will be mix of old, new songs Aug 21, 2009
"There are a lot of people in my peer group who are still out there and still doing stuff. The Meat Puppets are still out there. I used to play shows with them in a band I had before Camper Van Beethoven. And the Flaming Lips - we used to play with early on in the mid-1980s. There are still a lot of people from back then making music, which shows that our generation had a long-lasting cultural impact - certainly more than grunge, which still gets a lot of ink, but was really only a blip.". While... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Rockin' by the river Aug 16, 2009
Mr. Morris said that because Dead Confederate will be playing in Europe and then on the West Coast with the Meat Puppets, it felt proper to do a final Southeast show. "It's a good send-off," he said. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Kurt Cobain's Overlooked Legacy Aug 13, 2009
As a result the mainstream was introduced to The Vaselines and The Meat Puppets when they expected to hear the band rehash familiar material. Kurt Cobain was a fervent musical historian, the many lists he kept in his journals attest to that, and he took it upon himself to ensure his audience knew the material that inspired his own work. (Suite101.com)
An Athens affinity: Dead Confederate Aug 6, 2009
Between touring nearly year-round, writing for their next album and anticipating a West Coast tour this fall with veteran rockers Meat Puppets, it seems like the guys from Dead Confederate hardly have time to catch their breath ... In September, they'll embark on a nine-day run with the Meat Puppets and UME on the West Coast and then hit the road again in October for a short run with A Place to Bury Strangers - which includes the band's first ever stop in Canada. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Albums come alive when bands now hit the stage Jul 5, 2009
Others getting in on the action represent alt-rock (Liz Phair, the Lemonheads, the Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth), hip-hop (Public Enemy and Jay-Z), and country (Lucinda Williams). Prog-rockers and art-damaged combos also love to play brand-new concept albums straight through, as the Decemberists and Mastodon recently did. (Boston Globe)
Meat Puppets glad to be back together again Jul 4, 2009
When the Meat Puppets toured in 2007 and 2008 after the release of the band s CD, Rise To Your Knees, the band barely played any songs from that record ... The fact that on its current tour the Meat Puppets, who will perform July 10 at The Warehouse, plan to play quite a few songs from the band s new CD, Sewn Together, says a lot about where the band is today ... Rise To Your Knees was an album most fans probably never expected to see from the Meat Puppets at least in a configuration that... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Web video killed the live album May 23, 2009
Covering obscure Meat Puppets and Vaselines songs showed his deep respect for, and knowledge of, the rock canon. Then the music fades. (MSNBC -- Music)
Summer events listings May 17, 2009
June 10: Meat Puppets. June 15: Bob Schneider. (Boston Globe)
On new album, Meat Puppets put it all 'Together' May 11, 2009
Indie RockMeat Puppets Sewn TogetherMegaforce ESSENTIAL "Clone" Meat Puppets plays June 10 at the Paradise Rock Club. The number of ingredients found in a Meat Puppets record is impressive, but the way the band blends those pieces is what's truly astonishing ... At its best, Arizona's Meat Puppets makes you think there are no boundaries between punk, country, and pop. The appropriately named "Sewn Together" finds 50-year-old Curt Kirkwood and his 48-year-old brother Cris Kirkwood crafting... (Boston Globe)
Essentials: This weekend's live music picks Mar 13, 2009
Tonight @ Hemlock Tavern: This Seattle trio picks at the corpse of weird '80s hard-core bands like Deep Wound and early Meat Puppets, N.Y. noise, Olympia punk and nearly everything sonically cathartic and explosive since then. With releases on labels including Get Nice, Bodies of Water and the group's own Chicas De Hoy, there should be plenty of destroyed-sounding rockers to go around. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Story: No Age tightens sound Mar 9, 2009
"And sound too. Dean and I are both huge fans of SST and the sort of lineage of great California punk that wasn't always straightahead. I don't think punk really became straightahead until the popular term punk sort of turned mainstream sometime in the '90s, when bondage belts sort of became the standard for what punk was supposed to look like. I think there were a lot of amazing bands like the Minutemen, which I don't think anybody could deny were punk but were probably one of the most... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Sasha Frere-Jones: Neko Case is the horn section. Mar 9, 2009
It has the same feel as R.E.M. s Murmur, Meat Puppets Up on the Sun, or X s Under the Big Black Sun, perfectly formed rock albums from the eighties that emerged from the nest of punk rock, steeped in a love of older music and newer sounds, with self-indulgences held in check by a quick pulse. The wide-open spaces and narrow hopes of the characters in Middle Cyclone could come from any of the many stages of Case s life. (New Yorker)
