Classic SST artists Meat Puppets and the Minutemen’s Mike Watt (with his band The Jom & Terry Show) are going on a co-headlining tour this year, and select dates have support from another classic SST ...

“Many a mind has pondered … trying to find the code/Prying at the lock to break into wonderland,” Curt Kirkwood murmurs on “The Great Awakening,” a hazy fantasy from Meat Puppets’ latest album, Dusty ...

Bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom met in high school in Phoenix and started their first punk band, Atomic Bomb Club, in the late ’70s. Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on ...

After more than three decades of being lauded for their on-again, off-again noisy proto-grunge, the Meat Puppets, led by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, still sound a bit down, as though they’ve just ...