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 ...

Meat Puppets recently welcomed back drummer Derrick Bostrom, officially reuniting the band’s original lineup of frontman Curt Kirkwood, his brother Cris on bass, and Derrick. They released their first ...

Curt Kirkwood and Cris Kirkwood have been keeping Meat Puppets active for a while, and this year they reunited with original drummer Derrick Bostrom, which means the full original lineup is back for ...

Their next album, 1984’s Meat Puppets II, was completely different, with a strong country influence and more accomplished musicianship. One can argue if this or 1985’s album Up on the Sun is better, ...

It's been two years since drummer Derrick Bostrom joined Cris and Curt Kirkwood onstage for a short set of Meat Puppets classics for the first time since they went their separate ways in 1995. It was ...

Released way back in 1982, the Meat Puppets’ self-titled debut made the Phoenix, Arizona-based group out to be nothing more than a group of scrappy, sun-baked kids willing to crank their amps to 11 ...

The Meat Puppets may be nearly 30 years old, but they show no sign of slowing down. A major influence on such bands as Nirvana, Pavement, and Soundgarden, the Puppets continue to deliver their unique ...

We shouldn’t be having this conversation. Seriously. The idea that it’s 20 years later and Dinosaur Jr. has recorded a new album and the Kirkwood brothers have again revived the Meat Puppets—it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Back in 2003, when people still bought CDs in the waning days of the analog era, Meat Puppets singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood, ...

Meat Puppets’ drummer Derrick Bostrom is a fun person to play catch-up with. We did it after he returned to the band after several years in summer 2018, and recently, we had a chance to do it again.

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 ...