If you were given the task of making a time capsule mix of hits from the '90s buzz bin, Meat Puppets' "Backwater" could very well be your lead-off track. If you were going for some serious continuity, ...

On the newly released DVD Meat Puppets Alive in the Nineties, there’s a particularly alive moment from the early ’80s that Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore fondly remembers. “I had heard they were ...

One of the last vestiges of the 1980s SST era, the Meat Puppets forged an independent punk-based sound that included elements of alternative country and psychedelic rock. Led by brothers Curt and Cris ...

After recording wild and influential, twangy acid-punk albums in the early '80s, then winding up on Nirvana's "MTV Unplugged," then landing the unlikely radio hit "Backwater" in 1994, the Meat Puppets ...