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The Meat Puppets were never your average punk band. They listened to Neil Young — in the 70s. "It's one of the reasons we weren't entirely accepted by the punk-rock scene," says Cris Kirkwood, who ...

It’s hard to look at painter Benjamin Brantley Purvis’ work without recalling the 1994 Meat Puppets hit “Backwater”–“In the backwater swirling/there is something that’ll never change.” In his exhibit ...

Along with head-banging brethren Hüsker Dü and the Minutemen, the Meat Puppets formed a hardcore Holy Trinity of underground 1980s punk rock. All three bands were signed to SST Records, the imprint ...

For the longest time, Meat Puppets bassist-vocalist Cris Kirkwood's biography might have been titled "Rock and Roll Cautionary Tale, Part 947." Strung out, gut-shot (literally, by a post office ...