Music
You know you’re dealing with a maverick rock band when one of the group’s biggest fans tells you before a show, “I just love their new album. . . .
May 12, 1985
Entertainment & Arts
At the downstairs bar of the Variety Arts Center on Friday, a longtime fan of the Meat Puppets was overheard explaining the Arizona-based band’s appeal to an earnest newcomer.
Jan. 25, 1988
The Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood has revived his band with a new lineup and a hopeful outlook.
Nov. 26, 2000
“OUT MY WAY.” Meat Puppets. SST.
June 1, 1986
The standard take on the Meat Puppets these days is that the veteran group, having helped define alternative rock’s independent spirit and musical freedom, has been bypassed by time and trends--like a once-important little town left isolated by a distant interstate that has drawn all the traffic away.
June 2, 1994
The Meat Puppets were in Memphis last week, but not as a stop on a concert tour or for a Southern vacation.
April 16, 1993
Have you ever wondered what kind of music the children of the Grateful Dead’s legion of Dead-heads would get into?
June 22, 1987
The Meat Puppets is part of a new breed of quality rock bands that appeal to your gambling instincts.
Jan. 20, 1986
Archives
What would Johnny Rotten think?
June 7, 1985
The Pacific Northwest’s Screaming Trees have several things in common with Arizona’s Meat Puppets.
Nov. 6, 1992