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Meat Puppets — Sewn Together

By Ian Gormely (CHARTattack) May 21, 2009 10:44 am

Despite a revolving door of band members, Curt Kirkwood has retained the Meat Puppets moniker for the entirety of his career. No matter the musical turn — sunburnt indie freak, hit-making alterna-rocker or O.G. indie godfather — Meat Puppets were his band. They find a through line between the southern rock experimentalism of 1984's Meat Puppets...

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Curt Kirkwood — Snow

By David McPherson (CHARTattack) March 28, 2006 12:52 pm

Once upon a time, there was an underground alt.rock band called Meat Puppets. The psychedelic group went on sabbatical in 2001 after a couple of decades of cranking out the rawk. Now, their poetic pilot and fearless frontman has decided to fly solo. The results are as earth-shattering and genre-bending as the influential band he left behind. On...

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Meat Puppets — "Rotten Shame"

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By CHARTattack Staff September 14, 2009 12:42 pm

Meat Puppets' video for Sewn Together's "Rotten Shame" collects live and behind-the-scenes footage of Curt and Cris Kirkwood and Ted Marcus. The clip was directed by David Markey (Sonic Youth, Mudhoney).

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Free Download: Meat Puppets

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By CHARTattack Staff May 13, 2009 1:53 pm

Here's a free download of "Rotten Shame" from the Meat Puppets' 12th studio album, Sewn Together, which hit stores on May 12. Original members Curt and Cris Kirkwood, along with drummer Ted Marcus, recorded the follow-up to 2007's Rise To Your Knees at The Saltmine Studios in their hometown of Phoenix, Ariz.

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Pumping: Meat Puppets - Sewn Together

Submitted by The Stereo on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 3:33pm

By The Stereo (CHARTattack) May 7, 2009 3:33 pm

A rhetorical question, if you will: If the Meat Puppets drop a new album, will anyone care enough to listen to it?

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Pumping: Meat Puppets — Rise To Your Knees

Submitted by The Stereo on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 2:18pm

By The Stereo (CHARTattack) December 5, 2008 2:18 pm

Y'know how rock critics love to cite bands you've never actually heard and claim they're responsible for whole scenes? Meat Puppets are one of them. Thing is, much like all those other bands who're "influences," there's a reason why nobody's heard them. It's because they're not actually that good. Basically, we like the Meat Puppets...

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Curt Kirkwood Rambles On, And Along, Alone And With The Meat Puppets

By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) July 14, 2006 5:00 pm

Curt Kirkwood is a man of many words and, for the first time ever, he sang some of them on an album released under his own name last fall. After founding the groundbreaking Meat Puppets with his bassist brother Cris and drummer Derrick Bostrom in 1980 and releasing 10 albums over the next 20 years, the singer/songwriter/guitarist teamed up with...

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Former Meat Puppet Remains In Jail After Post Office Freak-Out

By CHARTattack Staff January 2, 2004 4:30 pm

A week after former Meat Puppets bassist Cris Kirkwood was involved in a violent Boxing Day freak-out, the troubled musician has been ordered to stay in police custody by an Arizona judge. Kirkwood got himself in hot water on December 26 when he reportedly assaulted a post office security guard in Phoenix after a parking dispute with another...