Meat Puppets
Sewn Together

It was early on in my personal punk experience that the Meat Puppets became part of that formative musical cream. Their name, slightly risqué and unfo...

So it was truly rewarding to discover Sewn Together, to find that Meat Puppets (Curt and Cris Kirkwood still at the helm, now augmented by full-time d...

Arizona’s Meat Puppets spent the 1980s playing countrified hardcore in a borderland peyote heat haze. Boosted briefly in 1993 when Nirvana’s unplugged...

After more then two decades and multiple reunions, one of the key bands of the "alternative" era is still plugging away. Returning for their 12th stud...

Many cite the reunion of all The Pixies, including Frank Black/Black Francis (QRO album review) and The Breeders’ Kim Deal (QRO live review), at Coach...

Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun were not fascinating punk albums because they were country. They were fascinating punk albums because they trampled ...

Though the band was sadly omitted from Our Band Could Be Your Life, Michael Azerrad’s fantastic account of US indie music in the 1980s, the Meat Puppe...

Imagine there was a parallel universe where the Eagles sounded really cool. Instead of going to the dark side of Wal-Mart branded corporate soft rock,...

Despite a revolving door of band members, Curt Kirkwood has retained the Meat Puppets moniker for the entirety of his career. No matter the musical tu...

Meat Puppets are like The Vaselines. They have been a relatively quiet but still an important presence in the alternative music scene, favored by thos...