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The Meat Puppets often get overshadowed, ironically, by their influence on Kurt Cobain. The fact is, though, that long before ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/meat-puppets-biography-upcoming/65413/

Books are good! Slicing Up Eyeballs : The story of the Meat Puppets will be told through new interviews with Peter Buck, J Mascis, Ian MacKaye, Flea, Henry Rollins, Lee Ranaldo, Mike Watt and more in Greg Prato’s new authorized, 407-page oral history of the legendary indie-rockers, “Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets,” due out June 1. According to a news release, Prato, a journalist and longtime fan, wrote the book with the band’s full cooperation. The book covers “the writing/recording of such classic albums as Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun , the group ...

fIREHOSE "lowFLOWs" The Columbia Anthology ('91-'93) Columbia/Legacy Recordings [2012] (2CD Set)  Fire Note Says: Re-visiting an important moment in time when we still called it college rock! Album Review: Minutemen Mike Watt and George Hurley recorded the fIREHOSE album, Ragin', Full On [1986] a year after the tragic death of their singer/guitarist and life-long friend, D. Boon, at the urging from Ohioan Ed Crawford (known as Ed fROMOHIO) to go on. The group recorded three albums for SST Records quickly and cheaply as a way of promoting their gigs - where they found that the indie punk community ...

For the first time ever, the Meat Puppets' story will be told in book form, when the authorized band bio, Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets, is released on June 1. Continue reading →

For the first time ever, the Meat Puppets' story will be told in book form, when the authorized band bio, *Too High to Die: Meet the Meat Puppets*, is released on June 1, 2011. Journalist/book author/long-time Puppets fan Greg Prato wrote the book with full cooperation from the band. In ...

It's hard to gauge how influential an album truly is. The Meat Puppets' 1984 LP, Meat Puppets II, is often cited by musicians as a seminal work, released during the halcyon days of SST. It's a ragged masterwork of country and rockabilly-infused punk, which, at the time of its release, was still y...

1988: Dinosaur Jr. - Bug by Winston O'Boogie">Dr. Winston O'Boogie on 04-18-2012 Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü. It’s safe to say that SST Records had the strongest lineup of the late 80s. These bands pushed the volume and intensity of guitar-rock to earsplitting heights, but none of them could quite pull of the face-melting, fuzz-drenched guitar freak-outs of SST label mates Dinosaur Jr.’s own J Mascis. After rising to the pinnacle of slacker apathy early in life, Mascis rounded up his high school buddies Lou Barlow and Murph to form Dinosaur Jr ...

I don’t know what the bat that pissed in guitarist Andrew Elstner’s eye was thinking, because Torche might just be one of the best things to happen to sludge-pop since the Meat Puppets. By now, you’ve probably snagged “Kicking” — the balls-out, horns-up first single. Now, the Floridians have shared another track from their upcoming Harmonicraft (due April 24). “Reverse Inverted” has the same crunchy goodness you’ve come to expect from Torche, along with some downright hummable solos to add just enough pop to cut through the muck. There’s also a nice, Sabbath-y groove that sprawls ...

5th Annual Austin Psych Fest / APRIL 27-29 2012 / Emo's East & Beauty Ballroom The full 2012 lineup: Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Black Angels, The Black Lips, Meat Puppets, Olivia Tremor Control, Thee Oh Sees, Dead Meadow, Bombino, The Telescopes, Wooden Shjips, Pink Mountaintops, Woods, Golden Dawn, Psychic Ills, Disappears, Peaking Lights, Entrance Band, Night Beats, Spindrift, Sun Araw, Pure X, Dead Confederate, Amen Dunes, Quilt, Prince Rama, Ringo Deathstarr, Sleep Over, Lotus Plaza, Moon Duo, Mind Spiders, The UFO Club, Headdress, Asteroid #4, Acid Baby Jesus, Blue Angel Lounge, Singapore Sling, Allah-Las, Federale, Quest for Fire, Feathers, High Wolf, Cosmonauts ...

WHAT : New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival WHEN : April 27 - May 6 WHERE : New Orleans, LA WHO : Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, the Beach Boys, Bon Iver, Foo Fighters, Cee Lo Green, My Morning Jacket, Al Green, Florence + the Machine, Feist, Janelle Monae, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Iron & Wine, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Glen Hansard, many more WHAT : CMKY Festival 2012 WHEN : April 24-29 WHERE : Boulder, CO  WHO : Laurie Anderson, Zammuto, Peaking Lights, Sun Araw, MEN, Biosphere, David Last, Ivy, Jacaszek, Lustmord, Pole, more WHAT : Austin Psych Fest WHEN : April 27-29 WHERE : Austin, TX WHO : The Black Angels, Woods ...

(Detailed playlist , with listening links.) 1. drunk dude in back of cop car - "Bohemian Rhapsody" 2. China Blue - "Eiffel Tower recordings" (archive.org) 3. Glenn Jones - "Of Its Own Kind" - The Wanting (Thrill Jockey) 4. Amps For Christ - "Roto Koto In C Major" - split 12-inch with Woods (Shrimper) 5. Hornorkesteret - "Baal" - Fjaer Og Jern (Panot) 6. Lambchop - "Mr. Met" - Mr. M (Merge) 7. Grateful Dead - "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" - Reckoning (Arista) 8. Insect Factory + Public Speaking - "(live set)" [with Delia Derbyshire, Grupo Experimental Electroacoustico, The Harlemans, Flip the Switch! excerpts] 9. Weird Paul Petrosky - "Geraldo Made Me ...

The full line up for the 2012 Austin Psych Fest is here! This year the party goes down at the brand new Emo's East and Beauty Ballroom located at 2015 East Riverside. The two venues are within close walking distance of each other and the organizers will have a courtyard set up to connect the venues with lounges, vintage clothing stores and food vendors along the path. Here is the line up! FRIDAY The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Psychic Ills, Peaking Lights, Disappears, Night Beats, Sun Araw, Ringo Deathstarr, Feeding People, Allah Las, Acid Baby Jesus, Moon Duo, Lotus ...

powered by Fotopedia These are the tunes that have been schlocking my werld.  Dig! "Into Giants" - Patrick Wilson - Never heard of this guy until now but he creates a piece of chamber pop here that rivals few.  I'm kind of reminded about what first drew me to Shearwater's early stuff and there's a bit of Earlimart here.  So, very pleasing to the ears.  It's a teaser for an upcoming album which I'm definitely going to be looking out for. "All The Rowboats" - Spektor">Regina Spektor .  I've always been somewhat standoffish on the cutesy pie ...

NYC psychedelic punk rock band Alice Donut will be the subject of a documentary coming this April. The film, Freaks in Love: A Quarter Century in Underground Rock with Alice Donut , will be released on April 17th, 2012 via Alternative Tentacles Records . The documentary features interviews with Jello Biafra , Greg Werckman, Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets , producer Martin Bisi, and more. The DVD will come with a two-disc collection of remixed and remastered songs, chosen by the band's fans.