Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood have completed work on their first Meat Puppets album together since 1995's "No Joke!," Billboard.com has learned. "Rise to Your Knees" will be released June 26 via Kansas City, Mo.-based indie label Anodyne Records, and will be supported by the Puppets' most extensive tour in years.Before he could resume playing music with his brother, Cris Kirkwood had to overc...
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 [...]
Original weirdos of the indie underground, The Meat Puppets, are set to release a new studio album. Sewn Together is scheduled for a May 12th release.The cow punkers have been around since the early '80s but really rose to prominence when they appeared alongside Nirvana on the now famous MTV Unplugged show (Nirvana played a handful of the Puppets' tracks).Meat Puppets' websiteMeat Puppets'
(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...
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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