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.
When they buried Doug Sahm, they buried Texas music
Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band
Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.
Honeycomb
(Back Porch)
Honeycomb
(Back Porch)
Alamo better blues
Smells like profiling
Songs of Sahm (Bloodshot Records)
Hooray for the Moon (New West)
The Gift (Will), You can Count on Me (Artemis/E-Squared), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury)
From Snoop Dogg to Doug Sahm, Austin's Gourds revel in making magic out of every sound imaginable
Pig Latin (Triple X)and Big Sandy and the Fly-Rite Boys
Night Tide
(Hightone Records)
Skip Spence made one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a new tribute album is giving him life again.
A new four-disc compilation attempts to give the West Coast East Side sound its proper place in rock 'n' roll history
A new four-disc compilation attempts to give the West Coast East Side sound its proper place in rock 'n' roll history
A new four-disc compilation attempts to give the West Coast East Side sound its proper place in rock 'n' roll history
Welcome to the "Nothing Not New," a yearlong project in which New Times editorial operations manager Jay Bennett, a 40-year-old music fan and musician, will listen only to music released in 2010. Why? Because in the words of his editor, Martin Cizmar, he suffers from "aesthetic atrophy," a ... More >>




