Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meat Puppets onstage at the Knitting Factory, New York City, January 24, 1992. From left: Cris Kirkwood, on bass guitar, Derrick ...

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 ...

“Let’s see . . . there was our late ’90s rap album that got lost in a downloading power outage. Then there was our boy band album. That one we had to scrap for legal reasons and move to the Cayman ...

They were among the first punks to go Americana. Like the Blasters dipped in acid and sun-baked by the Arizona heat, the Meat Puppets play cosmic country and blues ranging from ambling psych-singed ...

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 ...