Meat Puppets Biography Out In June Prefixmag The fact is, though, that long before Cobain covered "Oh Me" or "Plateau" The Meat Puppets were a fundamental fixture on the '80s college rock scene (definitely the most fundamental band from Phoenix). Now, the Kirkwood brothers are getting their story ...
New Book, Too High To Die: Meet The Meat Puppets, Traces Legendary Rock Band's... Altsounds.com For the first time ever, the Meat Puppets' story will be told in book form, when the authorized band bio, Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets, is released on June 1, 2011. Journalist/book author/long-time Puppets fan Greg Prato wrote the book with ...
Great covers Schenectady Gazette (blog) “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me” by the Violent Femmes — A great alternative rock band does Boy George 17. “Lake of Fire” by Nirvana — Nirvana pays tribute to one of its favorite bands, The Meat Puppets, with this grim tune. 16.
REVIEW: 2012 Nelsonville Music Festival, Day 1 WOUB ... a group of shaggy high schoolers. With his shoulder-length locks and Joey Ramone-style hair shield, Vile greeted the audience before plowing into an original that sounded a little like J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. and a lot like early Meat Puppets.
At Mickey's Tavern, SST Party revives Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and more Isthmus Daily Page To get things started, the band seems to be focusing mostly on Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Hüsker Dü, though Burke says he'd like to work in some Black Flag and Gone in the future. As a guitarist for the Gomers, Burke's used to jumping among all manner ...
Q&A With SST's Joe Carducci, Who Reads From His Book Life Against Dementia ... PW-Philadelphia Weekly (blog) Do you feel a certain satisfaction from the success of ex-SST acts like Soundgarden, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, & Henry Rollins? I do think that the Rollins Band's performance at the Grammy's back in mid-nineties was a signal moment–he was up there ...
411 Music Ten Deep 5.16.12: Top 10 Live Studio Albums 411mania.com It was while touring with the Meat Puppets that Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain finally accepted. The band wanted to do something different from a typical MTV Unplugged episode for its performance. According to Dave Grohl, "We'd seen the other Unplugged ...
Vintage photos from SST Records house producer Spot Chicago Reader ...Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, and St. Vitus, and also worked with non-SST punk heavies like Minor Threat and the Big Boys. He also played music himself in the brilliant Nig-Heist, who set a new standard for tastelessness in the early 80s—the group's...
Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, Woods and More Perform at Austin ... jambands.com The musical happenings kicked off on Friday with a performance by San Francisco producer Al Lover at the intimate, two-tiered Beauty Ballroom, while Strangers Family Band set things in motion over on the larger Emo's East Stage.
Roger Goodell (And Nike) Will Not Tolerate The NFL's Epidemic Of Bruised ... Deadspin Back in January 2011, he got one of his meat puppets, Chris Mortensen, to frame the initiative precisely as he wanted it phrased: Owners, general managers and coaches have expressed frustration that players who desire to play at the fastest possible ...