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 ...

Really want to be Outside. Excited about The Meat Puppets are releasing new editions of their SST catalog on Megaforce Records. In a Car and Up on the Sun are out now. We also have a new live album, ...

The Meat Puppets may be nearly 30 years old, but they show no sign of slowing down. A major influence on such bands as Nirvana, Pavement, and Soundgarden, the Puppets continue to deliver their unique ...

The early 2000s were filled with supergroups, as veterans of the '80s and '90s tried to carry on after their iconic groups had ended, often linking together with some surprising allies. There was ...

‘Oh my god, I must be dreaming/ if this is a dream, then why am I screaming?’ – ‘Take Off Your Clothes’ from this album. Well, those lyrics are the only effective thing on the Meat Puppets Golden Lies ...

Back in 2003, when people still bought CDs in the waning days of the analog era, Meat Puppets singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood, Sublime drummer Bud Gaugh, and Ziggens bassist Jon Poutney recorded 13 new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Really want to be Outside. My current music playlist has a lot of Cecil Taylor and Bobby Russell. And a little bit of Chicago house. I used to stare and stare at this record when I was 19, afraid to ...

They were among the first punks to go Americana. Like the Blasters dipped in acid and sun-baked by the Arizona heat, the Meat Puppets play cosmic country and blues ranging from ambling psych-singed ...