Derrick Bostrom

The Meat Puppets: Rise To Your Knees

COFFEE WITH A KIRKWOODMEAT PUPPET CURT SITS DOWN AND SPEAKS OUT

Bouncer . . . or Agro-bouncer?

Watching the watchmen, getting Unwound, surfing with the aliens in Man . . . or Astroman?

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.

Elmo's World

That which we call Kirkwood

Puppets Show

Arizonans get a taste of the live Meat Puppets they hardly saw on a new '90s retrospective DVD

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