YouTube Direktvideo link[Embedded Video]The venerable veterans, the Meat Puppets are back and have been on a tear. Paving the way for such acts like Nirvana, Pavement, and Dinosaur JR, the band has a sound all their own. It hasn’t always been easy, check out ABC News’ feature (Part 1, Part 2) for a fascinating look [...]
(photo by Matthew Rodgers) In a gripping two-part video series from Dan Harris and his web show "Amplified" for ABC News, the Lockwood brothers come clean with their past, their present and themselves. Drugs, crime, death, downward spirals, turmoil, the...
The publicist for the Meat Puppets sent a note out today announcing that the band had been picked to open three dates for the reunited Stone Temple Pilots, urging recipients to "Party like it's 1993!" I'm not sure that's such a good idea.It's great to have the band back in fighting shape after more than a decade in the wilderness, and I for one would like to keep it that way. But to casually in...
MP3: Meat Puppets - "Rotten Shame" from Sewn Together, out now on Megaforce. Remember back in 1994 when the Meat Puppets got famous for a minute? "Backwater" even reached #47 on Billboard's "Hot 100" chart. Crazy days. This new song...
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It felt a bit odd as I walked down 11th Street past the Repulsion show at DNA Lounge, where a sea of metalheads in black took a cigarette break. I looked at them, wide eyed with a sense of longing. I really need a good metal show in my life right now. [...]
November 8, 2007Double Door, Chicago, ILThe Meat PuppetsHa Ha TonkaBalloonaticHello, my name is Slug, and welcome to my first article for MonsterFresh.com. It is a humble article, but it had ambitions to be so much more. Originally, this article was going to be a big, garish piece of writing, throwing around big, garish quotations by the Kirkwood Brothers of The Meat Puppets, one of the best ps...
Last month, I gave a friend of mine an extra ticket to come with me to see The Stooges. This month it came back around to me in the form of a free Meat Puppets ticket. I love how things like this work in our lives. I got right up front against the stage. Was crushed and hit in the head and stepped on such as all the things we endure to be up front. But alas I forgot my camera. All these pics...
[photo credit] The Meat Puppets were simply one of the most unlikely but ultimately rewarding redemption stories of the entire year of 2007 in music. When we saw them perform at Knitting Factory in August of 2007, the band was tight, focused and performed a powerful set. The challenge for this band in 2008 [...]
One spring morning in 1973, when I was nine years old, I woke up and my mom was gone. This was one of those, she went out for a loaf of bread and never came back deals, but I didn’t know that then. What I did know, was that it wasn’t entirely out of the question for my parents to be apart. I think my dad played on that fact, and it pacified me at the time.During my first years my family moved
I am in a black hole of creativity tonight. I have posts that I need to write, research and publish. But I don't see it happening. Not right now. When I first came to MOG, I saw it as an outlet for my thoughts and tastes in music. Eventually it grew into something more. Instead of launching into a long-winded story about something else entirely, I would like to ask these questions. Why do we MO...
Finally...the Kirkwood brothers have gotten together to record some new music. 'Rise To Your Knees' reminds me of their glory days, circa 'Meat Puppets II'Its a really, REALLY good album...well worth picking up. Here is one of my favorite tracks off of the brand new one
now people cry and people moanlook for a dry place to call their hometry to find some place to rest their boneswhile the angels and the devils fight make them their own