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LINDSEY BEST

Soul Asylum & Meat Puppets touring together this summer, playing Brooklyn Bowl (dates)

by Bill Pearis

photo: Meat Puppets @ Wicker Park Fest 2013 (more by Lindsey Best)

Usually, the only place to see Soul Asylum and Meat Puppets together was probably on that one episode of MTV Alternative Nation from 1993 where both “Runaway Train” and “Backwater” were both played. But these two bands will be on the road together for the “Fly Over Tour” which hits NYC on June 20 at Brooklyn Bowl. Tickets for that show go on sale Friday (3/27) at 10 AM.

Though best known for ballad-y ’90s singles, Soul Asylum were pretty fierce in the ’80s, blending elements of Minneapolis’ two most successful punks (Husker Du and The Replacements) and their older catalog (Hang Time and earlier) is well worth checking out. (Those ’90s albums aren’t bad either.) The band are currently working on a new album. The Meat Puppets, meanwhile, have perhaps stayed little more creatively active, having released a split and toured with Cass McCombs most recently.

All tour dates are listed below….

Soul Asylum – 2015 Tour Dates
Apr 8 Bemidji, MN Sanford Center ^
Apr 9 Duluth, MN Grandma’s Sports Bar ^
Apr 10 Fargo, ND Fargo Theatre ^
Apr 12 Bismark, ND Belle Mehus Auditorium ^
Apr 16 Mankato, MI Mankato Events Center ^
Apr 17 Rochester, MN Whisky Bones Roadhouse ^
Apr 20 Lincoln, NE Knickerbockers ^
May 2 Memphis, TN Beale Street Festival
May 23 Arlington, TX Levitt Pavilion
Jun 5 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue *
Jun 7 Chicago, IL House Of Blues *
Jun 10 Indianapolis, IN Rathskeller Biergarten *
Jun 11 Kalamazoo, MI Bells Eccentric Café *
Jun 12 Cleveland, OH Hard Rock *
Jun 13 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls *
Jun 18 Washington, DC 9:30 Club *
Jun 20 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Bowl *
Jun 24 Hartford, CT The Webster *
Jun 25 San Francisco, CA The Independent *
^ w/ With John Mark Nelson, American Scarecrows and Carnage The Executioner
* w/ Meat Puppets