Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets Expand the Family Affair With Rat Farm

Though the band now resides in Austin, Texas, The Meat Puppets and the brothers Kirkwood (Curt and Cris) will be forever tied to the Valley of the Sun from whence they sprung. That connection has gotten stronger to with the addition of Curt's son Elmo--a Tempe resident--now an official member of t ... More >>

Before He Was Neil Hamburger, Gregg Turkington Was Part of the '80s AZ Punk Scene

M. Ward Discusses "A Wasteland Companion," and His Arizona Ties to The Meat Puppets and Howe Gelb

See also: fIREHOSE's Ed Crawford: "It Was Our Job. We F**kin' Showed Up Every Day." M. Ward has slowly and sturdily built himself up as a songwriter and producer over the past decade, with a string of hushed folk, country, blues, and pop inflected records that don't cry out for attention, but quiet ... More >>

Literal Band Names: Radiohead, Black Keys, Meat Puppets, and More

There are some weird band names out there, so we let our imaginations go wild to envision what some of these names would literally look like. We chose Radiohead as our jumping off point because love them or hate them, the band is playing at Jobing.com arena tonight, and it's sure to be one of the ... More >>

North Dakota, Meat Puppets, Gin Blossoms, Minibosses, Jerry Riopelle, and More This Weekend

See also: Phoenix New Times New Year's Eve Guide Ring in the New Year With These Local Shows (Minibosses, Meat Puppets, Futurekind, Gin Blossoms, Sugar Thieves We owe a lot to The Meat Puppets around here (you know, our name and all), so we're always happy when the Kirkwood boys are back in town. ... More >>

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Ring in the New Year With These Five Local Shows

Meat Puppets​A year full of excellent local shows has come and gone, and like years past, we're sad to see them go. We look forward to a fruitful future of local music in 2012. To ring in the New Year, a gracious amount of local bands have decided to play shows around the Valley, including so ... More >>

More Oral History of Phoenix Skate Punk

​Over the past couple weeks I interviewed key members of the early '80s Phoenix skate punk. The results, printed in this week's issue, coincide with this weekend's JFA 30th Anniversary show at Hollywood Alley. Everyone I spoke to was funny, insightful, and has a genuine lifers; people doing it ... More >>

Incoming: Bush, Meat Puppets, Brian Setzer, Puscifer, Starfucker

​English rockers Bush, who have always had better luck in the US than in their own home country, are looking to further their success as they sweep through Phoenix in December.If you've been eagerly awaiting to hear grunge hits like "Glycerine" and yearning to enviously stare at Gavin Rossdale whi ... More >>

Luz de Vida Benefit Compilation Unites National Indie Acts and Tucson Bands

​Luz de Vida, a compilation featuring Neko Case, Spoon, Jimmy Eat World, Calexico, Giant Sand, Lenguas Largas, Robyn Hitchcock, Brian Lopez, The Meat Puppets, and many, many more, is set to see release in two formats, a 37-track digital album, and a limited-edition 12-song vinyl release, on Octobe ... More >>

Meat Puppets @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Meat Puppets Debut "Orange" Video (Spoiler Alert: It's Freaky)

​The Meat Puppets released a new album, Lollipop, back in April, and  Pitchfork TV has debuted a video for their song "Orange," a particularly driving psych-rock with Cris Kirkwood's heavy bass leading the charge, from the record. The stop-motion animated video is damn twisted, too. Chock fu ... More >>

April 29 In Blogs: Arpaio, Follow Friday, Meat Puppets, Kolsch, and Tonto National Forest

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Meat Puppets Release New Record Today, Hit Clubhouse on National Tour

​The last time we caught up with the Meat Puppets it was mostly to talk about the 'Arizona scene' after a rough week at Austin's South by Southwest music conference.Regrettably, I didn't even mention the band's new record Lollipop in that piece. But, yes, the Puppets put out a brand new record thi ... More >>

Meat Puppets, "Up On The Sun"

​Song: Meat Puppets, "Up On The Sun" Context: Have you ever heard the song this blog takes its name from? If not, here you go -- it's mentioned in this week's music feature so this seems as good a time as any to remind everyone why Up On The Sun is called Up On The Sun. Meat Puppets - U ... 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 >>

Flathead, Chester Bennington, George Jones and More in This Week's Issue

​In this week's print edition New Times writer Chris Hansen Orf -- himself a member of a veteran Tempe Americana act -- catches up with hard-nosed roots rockers Flathead. The band talks about how they've been able to fit on bills with everyone from Meat Puppets to Ralph Stanley, X and Th ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 1/20 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. How did Kimber Lanning of Stinkweeks talk an association of record store geeks out of boycotting Arizona because ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 4/22 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a box in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What was the scene like at Coachella? Why does Glenn Danzig need to watch his back when he comes to Mesa Saturday ... More >>

Concert Review: Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate at Marquee Theatre

​At first blush, The Meat Puppets and Dead Confederate, who joined forces for a show at a half-full Marquee Theatre last night, don't seem to have much in common. Originating two decades and 2,000 miles apart the two twangy alt-rock bands acts do have some small musical similarities, but even m ... More >>

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Meat Puppets Play Red Rocks On Tour That Brings Them To Tempe Sept. 16

​Everyone's favorite ex-Arizona band (sorry fun. and Lymbyc Systym) will be playing Denver's Red Rocks Ampitheatre, a venue so beloved Pollstar retired it as a contender for best small outdoor concert venue and instead named the award after it, on their way to Tempe for a show at The Marquee on Se ... More >>

Other People's Blogs: New Meat Puppets, No Cameras At Lil' Wayne's Trial, No Doubt Cameo on "Gossip Girl"

Electric Mustache: Cinematic TitanicWaved Rumor: Meat Puppets 'Sewn Together' out todayNME: Cameras will be banned during Lil' Wayne drugs trialIdolator: Afroman Is Here To Remind Us That Drug Abuse Can Really Screw Up Your CopyrightsRolling Stone: No Doubt Cameo on '80s-Themed Episode of "Gossip Gi ... More >>

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 >>

May 12 In Blogs: Maximo Park, Meat Puppets, Squash Blossoms, Westgate and More

In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Up on the Sun: New Release Tuesday: Maxïmo Park New Meat Puppets album hits stores today, band to per ... More >>

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 >>

Arizona's SxSW Contingent

Arizona Premiere Living's List of Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians Kinda Blows

We recently ran across this list of the "Top Ten All-Time Arizona Musicians" from Arizona Premiere Living. Some of the choices are obvious: Meat Puppets, Jimmy Eat World, Jordin Sparks, Gin Blossoms, Alice Cooper, and Linda Ronstadt almost always make the "top" lists of Arizona musicians.

Kirkwood Dellinger EP Release at Yucca Tap Room

Q&A: Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets

Tempe Music Festival Wrap-up

Hometown Heroes and Rookie Rockers at Tempe Music Festival

Tempe Music Festival celebrates local bands while welcoming hometown heroes Gin Blossoms and The Meat Puppets

You can't swing a Gin Blossom without hitting a concert this weekend

The Meat Puppets: Rise To Your Knees

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

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

Master of Puppets

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

From Mohawks To Mullets

Images from 25 years of Phoenix music

Lake of Fire

Puppet Rulers

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

Letters

Letters

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.

Blasphemous Rumors

Let's just get right to it

Recordings

DO LOOK BACK

THE YEAR IN MUSIC: IT JUST DIDN'T GET MUCH BETTER (OR WORSE) THAN THIS