The Meat Puppets were perhaps older than most at Dan’s on Saturday night, but boy, did they own it; the hair of the Kirkwood brothers still cascaded, just like it was 1984, except with a little more ...

The Meat Puppets are returning to Pizza Luce, less than a year after they joined Retribution Gospel Choir for a stage-diving extravaganza at the same venue. That show in July featured the longtime ...

One of the last vestiges of the 1980s SST era, the Meat Puppets forged an independent punk-based sound that included elements of alternative country and psychedelic rock. Led by brothers Curt and Cris ...

After recording wild and influential, twangy acid-punk albums in the early '80s, then winding up on Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged," then landing the unlikely radio hit "Backwater" in 1994, the Meat Puppets ...

When Meat Puppets released their second album in 1984, few would have predicted just how transformative it would be. A tumultuous partnership with the band’s record label, SST, and an even more ...

On the newly released DVD Meat Puppets Alive in the Nineties, there’s a particularly alive moment from the early ’80s that Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore fondly remembers. “I had heard they were ...

The Meat Puppets are back on the road, with all of the original members along for the ride. Curt Kirkwood (guitar, vocals), Cris Kirkwood (bass, vocals), and Derrick Bostrom (drums) are joined by Elmo ...