Curt Kirkwood

Hometown Heroes and Rookie Rockers at Tempe Music Festival

Q&A: Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets

COFFEE WITH A KIRKWOODMEAT PUPPET CURT SITS DOWN AND SPEAKS OUT

Recordings

Blasphemous Rumors

Let's just get right to it

Lone Star Trek

Revolver goes to SXSW for music and free major-label beer

Shooting Star

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.

Letters

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.

Growing Pains

After 13 years, SXSW remains Austin's greatest/worst display of self-love

Letters

Fromthe Week of May 13, 1999

Letters

Fromthe Week of May 13, 1999

Master of Puppets

Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

Top 10 sellers at Eastside Records, 217 West University Drive in Tempe

Chart-busters for the week

Austin's The Meat Puppets Have New Album, Tour

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 continenta ... More >>

Back on the Sun

Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood's road to the Meat Puppets reunion

Elmo's World

That which we call Kirkwood

And the Band Plays On

Curt Kirkwood finds harmony in new project

Tangential Rage

Ex-Meat Puppet Curt Kirkwood, now with Eyes Adrift, rambles on for the sake of rambling

Apt Pupils

Indie supergroup Eyes Adrift offers a dream fusion of Meat Puppets, Nirvana and Sublime

Lift to Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Experience (Bella Union)

Critical Mass 2000

Our panel of writers offer up their takes on the top discs of Y2K

Pleased to Meat Me

Meat Puppets Golden Lies (Breaking Records/Atlantic)

From Mohawks To Mullets

Images from 25 years of Phoenix music

Puppet Rulers

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

BASSIC INSTINCTFROM THE MINUTEMEN TO FIREHOSE AND NOW SOLO, MIKE WATT IS ALWAYS ON TRACK

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

THE BEST OF NINETEEN NINETY TUNE

Reissue of the Meat Puppets' '80s catalogue reclaims the band's crucial role in the Amerindie revolution

New Meat Puppets Album Hits Today, Band Performs at Zia Records Saturday

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 ... More >>

The Meat Puppets

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 ... More >>

Meat Puppets

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 ... More >>

Roots Rockers Flathead Have Played with Everyone

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 ... More >>

South by Southwest Was Embarrassing for Arizona -- But Who Cares?

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 ... More >>

Meat Puppets at SXSW, Great White, Baseball Project, Lady Gaga and More in This Week's Print Edition

​This week's main music feature is a column I wrote in Austin, Texas after a week of South By Southwest craziness. It was a rough week for Arizona -- the most attention anything related to our state got was a panel hosted by boycotters -- but Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood managed to put ever ... More >>

Meat Puppets @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

​This week's main music feature is a column I wrote in Austin, Texas after a week of South By Southwest craziness. It was a rough week for Arizona -- the most attention anything related to our state got was a panel hosted by boycotters -- but Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood managed to put ever ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2011: What to Do and Where to Go on the Last Night of the Year

​This week's main music feature is a column I wrote in Austin, Texas after a week of South By Southwest craziness. It was a rough week for Arizona -- the most attention anything related to our state got was a panel hosted by boycotters -- but Meat Puppets frontman Curt Kirkwood managed to put ever ... More >>

A Sublime History: Looking Back on What Happened to One of the Best Ska Punk Bands of the 90s

​Despite what it does for your record sales, it sucks when a rockstar dies before his time. Hard times came about in 1996 after the passing of Sublime's vocalist and guitarist Bradley Nowell.Even good ol' Lou Dog was bummin'. Frankly, I can't blame him. If I had been more than six years old at the ... More >>