Back in 1985, SST bands Meat Puppets, Minutemen and Husker Du went on 'SST - The Tour' with Saccharine Trust and SWA. As a nod to that tour, the Meat Puppets, Mike Watt (of the Minutemen) and Grant Hart (of Husker Du) are on tour together this year...
Meat Puppets' playlist includes Brian Eno, Can, Gong, and more.
The new music wagon train rolls on via BrooklynVegan Blog Radio on SiriusXMU. This weeks' show features songs from New Pornographers, Alex Lahey, El Michaels Affair, Spiral Stairs, Hand Habits, Jay Som, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Vagabon, Julie Byrne and more...
Three legendary musicians from SST’s prime era are teaming up for a tour this spring. The Meat Puppets and the Minutemen’s Mike Watt (with his early 2000s era backing band The Jom and Terry Show) are co-headlining the tour, and select dates have support from Husker Du’s Grant Hart...
Boise, ID's Treefort Music Fest has announce more artists for their 2017 lineup. Among the just-announced additions...
The 2017 lineup includes Mac DeMarco, The Growlers, Bouncing Souls, Deafheaven, Lower Dens, Meat Puppets, and more.
A Tribe Called Quest's final album (and first since the '90s), You Blew It!, Sad13, and more.
Cris talks about Phoenix punk OGs Exterminators' first-ever LP (that he produced and plays bass on) and upcoming first live show since the '70s, plus Meat Puppets stuff, Nirvana, Grateful Dead, The Feederz, Destruction Unit (who are named after an Exterminators song), and MUCH more.
There's a cool event going down this December for NYC-based Zeppelin fans (which is certainly a broad group of people). The Zeppelin Bowl tribute goes down at Brooklyn Bowl on December 28 with a great lineup that includes Gene Ween, Scott Ian and John Medeski, with several more guests promised to be announced later...
Mike Watt's releasing a live album of his 1995 tour with Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Eddie Vedder, and William Goldsmith. In semi-related news, Exterminators, whose members went on to play in The Germs, The Gun Club, and more, reunited and Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood is in the new lineup.