The Meat Puppets latest tour brings the iconic ’90s alt. band to Rochester for the first time. Lead singer Curt Kirkwood has been here before, though under different circumstances. As a child, ...

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 ...

Meat Puppets drummer Derrick Bostrom is down on the music industry. He said he stopped paying attention to current music when the Spice Girls debuted. He’s frustrated that successful “musicians” these ...

There would seem to be no connection between the city of Tucson and influential grunge rock act Nirvana. But Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, was heavily influenced by the Meat Puppets, a Phoenix band ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meat Puppets onstage at the Knitting Factory, New York City, January 24, 1992. From left: Cris Kirkwood, on bass guitar, Derrick ...

It’s hard to look at painter Benjamin Brantley Purvis’ work without recalling the 1994 Meat Puppets hit “Backwater”–“In the backwater swirling/there is something that’ll never change.” In his exhibit ...

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 ...

Meat Puppets’ drummer Derrick Bostrom is down on the music business. He said he stopped paying attention to current music when the Spice Girls debuted. He’s frustrated that successful “musicians” ...