Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.
The Meat Puppets of Austin, Texas
Austin, Texas based-band The Meat Puppets (How much do you old Mill types hate seeing that? But that's how they bill themselves!) have a new album, Sewn Together, coming out next month and will tour extensively in support of it, playing everywhere in the continental United States. Well, everywhere except Arizona.That's a bit of an exaggeration, of course, but the AUSTIN, TEXAS band (who may have some small connection to Arizona) recorded at The Saltmine in Phoe
Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets, the iconic alternative band who are arguably Arizona's greatest-ever musical export, release their 12th studio album, Sewn Together, today. How much do we think of the band? Well, let's just say we didn't name this blog after a Gin Blossoms or Jimmy Eat World album, now did we?
Sewn Together is the second disc since the reunion of founding members, brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood. While 2007's Rise To Your Knees was not without its moments, it was mostly great just
