Meat Puppets

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend

Madonna Saturday, October 20 and Sunday, October 21, at American Airlines Center, $48.50-$358.50 Get your outfits ready, Madonna is upon us. When she kicked off her world tour back in May, thus began her gigantic seven-month, 89-date trek through Europe before hitting North America, and she'll event ... More >>

The Meat Puppets - Dan's Silverleaf - 4/28/12

The Meat Puppets Dan's Silverleaf Saturday, April 28 The Meat Puppets were perhaps older than most at Dan's on Saturday night, but boy, did they own it; the hair of the Kirkwood brothers still cascaded, just like it was 1984, except with a little more gray at the temple. Three songs into a 90-minu ... More >>

Meat Puppets at Dan's Silverleaf

Saturday, April 28, at Dan's Silverleaf

13 Shows To See This Weekend: The Beach Boys, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Olivia Tremor Control & More

Beach BoysThursday, April 26, at Verizon TheatreIt's the first time the Beach Boys will feature Brian Wilson on tour in decades. Their voices aren't as pure as they were on their near-perfect album Pet Sounds, but even at half strength the performance should be good.Steve EarleThursday, April 2 ... More >>

The Beach Boys, Marilyn Manson and This Week's Show Announcements

The Beach Boys, back in the day​For decades, The Beach Boys have been a diluted version of their former selves, touring with the likes of John Stamos on bongos. Since Brian Wilson was fired in 1982, the band never really topped the greatness of 1988's "Kokomo." Rumors of bad blood circulated aroun ... More >>

Pete Anderson: "We [Dwight Yoakam and I] Were Americana Before There Was Americana"

If known only for his guitar playing and production work with Dwight Yoakam, singer/songwriter Pete Anderson would still be a legend in both the country and alt-country genres. There is much more to Pete Anderson than the stellar licks on such Yoakam hits as "Guitar, Cadillacs" and "Streets of B ... More >>

Roky Erickson, Fort Worth Music Festival, Rocktoberfest and More Weekend Shows...

Roky Erickson​It's difficult to pick the top show this weekend. There's just a lot going on. All over the place, too. For instance, if you take the elevator up to the thirteenth floor, you'll probably run into troubled genius, Roky Erickson, who is headlining at The Kessler Theater tonight. Howeve ... More >>

Giveaway: Win Two Pairs of VIP Passes To This Weekend's Fort Worth Music Festival

​As you no doubt recall, the Fort Worth Music Festival (nee Jazz by the Boulevard) kicks off tonight in Cowtown with something of a new vendetta at play. The festival, while still pandering somewhat to its jazz roots, will this year expand to include more a rock and indie rock bent, courtesy of Me ... More >>

Fort Worth Music Festival

Friday, September 30, and Saturday, October 1, at Rogers Will Memorial Center in Fort Worth

My Morning Jacket and Guns N' Roses Top a Good, Solid List of Show Announcements

My Morning Jacket​On the heels of an incredible performance at Austin City Limits Music Festival last weekend, My Morning Jacket have announced that they'll be taking their show on the road. And, thankfully, since they skipped North Texas on the first leg of their Circuital album tour, they'll be ... More >>

Meat Puppets, Dawes and Lucero To Play Freshly Rebranded Fort Worth Music Festival

​Our pal Preston Jones of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram broke the news yesterday: After eight years of operation under the Jazz by the Boulevard banner, the annual jazz-centric, Fort Worth-based fall music festival now has a new name. The festival, which will still carry a heavy jazz bent, will now ... More >>

Authority Zero's Jason DeVore: "It's About Staying Alive and Just Surviving."

Authority Zero​Arizona's Authority Zero has been making music for going on 20 years -- but not without some roadblocks. Various battles with record companies and management types have resulted in lineup changes that would have permanently crippled most bands. Somehow, though, singer Jason DeVore h ... More >>

Blink-182 & My Chemical Romance, Girl Talk & The Cool Kids, and Many Other Announcements

Blink 182 are back, and they're looking for corporate sponsorhips​This week's most notable show announcements come our way via huge corporate sponsorships -- one from Honda Civic, and the other from 7-Eleven. The former, which features the newly reunited pop-punk forefathers Blink-182 and their mi ... More >>

Giveaway: Five Pairs of Tickets To See Dead Confederate, Ume and Futurebirds Play The Loft on Sunday Night

In this week's paper, Darryl Smyers talks Athens' Dead Confederate, explaining why Sunday night's show at The Loft is a must-see in his book:Known for their hybrid mix of alt-country and post-grunge, Athens' Dead Confederate created quite a critical buzz with the release of Wrecking Ball, the band ... More >>

Dead Confederate, Ume, Futurebirds

Sunday, August 29, at The Loft

Gig Alert, Bonus MP3 and a Giveaway: What Laura Says Hits The Prophet Bar Tonight.

What Laura Says​There's just something about Arizona that brings out the weirdness. Whether it's John McCain's bizarre choice for a VP candidate or legendary sun-drenched oddballs like the Meat Puppets, the desert air just seems to produce some strange results.Add What Laura Says to the long list ... More >>

Paints, Rearranged

30 Years In, Meat Puppets Are Still Going

What It Was Like: Port O' Brien, Those Darlins, Phosphorescent, Deer Tick, Hacienda

Noah W. BaileyPort O' Brien channels Neil Young at Buffalo Billiards.After the three-and-a-half hour drive from Dallas I decided to start the evening off right at Hut's Hamburgers before finally checking out some music. Here's what I saw. Now it's time for breakfast tacos at Nueva Onda and more band ... More >>

Echoes and Reverberations: The Bad Sleep Good or Not At All.

They were loud, rude, bratty and obnoxious. They smoked pot, drank lots of beer, did drugs and slept in their clothes. If you were a guy who hung out at Theatre Gallery during the late '80s, chances are pretty good that one (or more) of them fucked your girlfriend. And they got away with it all be ... More >>

It's Not Americana; It's Dress-Up

Don't be fooled by the faded denim and snap-button cowboy shirts

Echoes and Reverberations: Dead Kennedys “Rock Against Politics”

Last Night: Butthole Surfers At The Granada Theater

The Brothers Unconnected (of Sun City Girls)

Thursday, July 3, at Granada Theater

Music for the Eyes

A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

Meat Puppets

Friday, November 16, at the House of Blues Cambridge Room

What You Will Be Listening to This Weekend With Your Ears

Listen Up: Midlake, R.E.M. Tribute

Meat, Repeat

After a decade off, the Meat Puppets return

Backtrackin'

Things you may have missed the first time

The Lemonheads

The Lemonheads (Vagrant)

Evangelicals

So Gone (Misra)

Curt Kirkwood

Snow (Little Dog)

Brite Idea

Plus: Cover Up; Sack of Kittens; Net Gains

Kodak Moment

Thanks to sticks and Strokes, Longwave's Steve Schlitz doesn't have to move back to Rochester just yet

Strong Foundation

Bar of Soap founders celebrate 20th year in Dallas music scene

A Marked Man

Pimpadelic, Tommy Boy Records split

Hijinks at Trees

Long-overdue debuts

Master of Puppets

Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul, and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

Kids Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

South by so what

Putting the jest in music fest

Pavement

Terror Twilight (Matador Records)

Electric funeral

Black Sabbath has reunited, but has it cost its members their souls?

Too high. Period.

Curt Kirkwood, now living in Austin, is still a Meat Puppet. His brother Cris is a missing-in-action junkie

Night & Day

July 9 - 15, 1998

Out Here

College rock

UFOFU brings 'alternative' to ETSU and wins the talent show

Fifteen nailsin the coffin

Or: Rock and roll isn't dead, it just doesn't smell bad

Licensed to steal

Negativland makes its case in a new book and album