Meat Puppets News and Photos

Album Review: Meat Puppets – Rat Farm

Tue, April 16 2013 4:29am - Source: Consequence of Sound

Despite a 30-plus year career and 14 studio albums, many have relegated the Meat Puppets to a footnote attached to the Grunge entry in the music encyclopedia, something amounting to "those guys that played with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged."

Album review: Meat Puppets, Rat Farm (Megaforce)

Thu, April 11 2013 6:31pm - Source: The Independent - Music

It's dizzying psychedelic country in finest Meat Puppets tradition, full of slightly off-centre harmonies in Grateful Dead manner, and plenty of Kirkwood's swirling, trippy guitar.

Meat Puppets: April 4, 2013 Mercury Lounge – FLAC/MP3/Streaming

Mon, April 08 2013 2:16am - Source: NYC Taper

I last saw the Meat Puppets at Mercury Lounge four years ago, when I made this recording.

The Meat Puppets

Sat, April 06 2013 12:21pm - Source: Music-News.com

This album is everything a rock n roll album should be.

Meat Puppets played the first of two sold-out shows at Mercury Lounge with The World Takes (pics, setlist)

Thu, April 04 2013 5:46pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

Legender cowpunkers Meat Puppets will release their new album, Rat Farm, this month (4/16) and are currently on tour in support of it.

Daily Downloads (Meat Puppets, Hem, A Bloodshot Records Sampler,and more)

Thu, April 04 2013 12:43pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet.

Daily Downloads (The Meat Puppets, The Mountain Goats, and more)

Sat, March 16 2013 12:18pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet.

Listen to New Meat Puppets Song "Down"

Fri, March 15 2013 10:20pm - Source: ArtistDirect

Want to listen to some new Meat Puppets music?

Meat Puppets announce June tour with Mudhoney

Tue, February 26 2013 2:16am - Source: Music-News.com

For over 30 years, legendary desert punks the Meat Puppets have carved a unique niche for themselves with an unmistakable blend of cosmic country and punk rock filtered through countless acid trips, dog-eared comic books and their eclectic record collections.

Mudhoney and Meat Puppets to tour UK together

Mon, February 25 2013 4:26pm - Source: The Line Of Best Fit

Alt-rock legends, Mudhoney and Meat Puppets are set to embark on a joint UK tour.

The Meat Puppets to Release "Rat Farm" on April 16

Tue, February 12 2013 8:31pm - Source: ArtistDirect

The Meat Puppets will release their 14th studio effort, Rat Farm , on April 16 via Megaforce.

Meat Puppets plan new album, announce 2013 tour (two nights at Mercury Lounge included)

Fri, February 01 2013 5:50pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

Meat Puppets plot quick U.S. jaunt ahead of new album

Fri, October 05 2012 5:31pm - Source: Soundspike

Arizona rock outfit Meat Puppets will headline a handful of U.S. shows this fall before heading across the pond for a winter trek through Spain.

Exclusive Book Excerpt: 'Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets'

Fri, June 01 2012 3:44pm - Source: Rolling Stone

The Meat Puppets' story is one of many ups (guesting on Nirvana's Unplugged ) and downs (bassist Cris Kirkwood's drug addiction derailing the band).

Yo La Tengo, Meat Puppets Subjects of New Books

Thu, May 31 2012 5:21pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

This summer, the stories of two iconic indie rock bands, Yo La Tengo and Meat Puppets , will be chronicled in new books.

Meat Puppets Biography Upcoming

Fri, May 18 2012 12:21am - Source: Prefix Magazine

The Meat Puppets often get overshadowed, ironically, by their influence on Kurt Cobain.

Book Notes - Stephen Beachy "boneyard"

Wed, November 23 2011 4:33pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Meat Puppets - Backwater

Mon, October 10 2011 3:59am - Source: blogging away in LA

Living in Los Angeles, it's part of everyday life.

Quickies: James Vincent McMorrow, Silver Swans, The Meat Puppets, Bird, Silent Rider

Thu, September 29 2011 9:19pm - Source: Cover Me

Live Review: Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Mastodon at The Gorge Ampitheatre (7/30)

Tue, August 02 2011 6:34pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

When metal/grunge icons Soundgarden announced they would be ending their North American summer tour at The Gorge Ampitheatre in central Washington, you knew it was going to be a spectacular show.

Meat Puppets annnounce more U.S. tour dates

Fri, July 22 2011 5:05pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

They've spent the past couple of months on the road , so why stop now?

Corporate magazines still suck.

Wed, July 20 2011 2:53am - Source: Citizen Dick

If you'd just like the Vaselines' song that is the principle focus of this post, you can snag that at Cover Me. I've got some opinions about this Spin Nirvana cover record.

[LP Review] Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (1982)

Tue, June 28 2011 7:52pm - Source: MP3 Hugger

More and more it seems that what's old is new again.

Meat Puppets + Bad Weather California + Black Box Revelation – Doug Fir (Portland, OR; Jun 22, 201

Sat, June 25 2011 10:21pm - Source: Melophobe

The cover versions of three Meat Puppets songs are better known than their original recordings, and I suspect many of the younger patrons here tonight are here for a little Nirvana-by-proxy.

In Photos: Meat Puppets @ The Garage, London

Thu, June 16 2011 8:32am - Source: Drowned In Sound

'The Rat' is still the only Walkmen song I really like. 16 Jun 09:09 Is there any way that Dis could have a 120 minutes styled latest video's round up?

Meat Puppets - Lollipop

Tue, May 03 2011 7:46am - Source: Drowned In Sound

It is also about confounding expectations and challenging convention, and for the greatest punk bands this applies as much to confronting and offending the values of their own audience as it does to railing against some abstract, paranoid notion of 'the man'.

Album: Meat Puppets, Lollipop (Megaforce)

Fri, April 29 2011 12:19am - Source: The Independent - Music

Lollipop is the best Meat Puppets album since the halcyon days of Up on the Sun and Mirage, full of scudding lysergic country-rock grooves bound in twisting skeins of dervish lead guitar.

Meat Puppets: "Orange" (Video)

Wed, April 27 2011 5:26pm - Source: Prefix Magazine

This video for Meat Puppets' "Orange" is a stop-motion nightmare, the kind of thing that probably should come with a warning for little kids.

What Goes On: Meat Puppets Offer Sweets

Thu, April 14 2011 10:35am - Source: WNEW

Meat Puppets have dropped a new album, Lollipop , with a new tour schedule on their calendars.

Download: Meat Puppets - Damn Thing

Wed, March 16 2011 12:45pm - Source: ClashMusic.com

Meat Puppets have made new track 'Damn Thing' available as a free download.

Check Out: Meat Puppets – “Damn Thing”

Fri, March 04 2011 8:07pm - Source: Consequence of Sound

Vintage alt rockers, the Meat Puppets , are prepping the upcoming release of their latest studio album, Lollipop , their 13th in a long and very influential career.

Sticky goodness from Meat Puppets

Wed, March 02 2011 2:29pm - Source: The Music Mix

It doesn't take long after listening to the Meat Puppets' thirteenth studio album overall, Lollipop , to realize that they have boiled the essence of what the group is all about right down to its core.