That's Dishonest:  A Repository of Interviews with and Articles about Meat Puppets
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  • 2019
    • The Meat Puppets Unveil Their ‘Dusty Notes’ (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Dusty Notes – album review (2019)
    • Some Reunions Are Worth the Fuss. Take Meat Puppets. (2019)
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood: “Lead is just like playing air guitar on the real guitar for me” (2019)
    • Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood on New Album, George Jones, Nirvana ‘Unplugged’ (2019)
    • A CONVERSATION WITH MEAT PUPPETS (2019)
    • Review: Meat Puppets Remain Easygoing Psychedelic Country-Punk Gods on ‘Dusty Notes’ (2019)
    • Dusty Notes (2019)
    • IT’S HARD NOT TO FEEL LIKE AN ANACHRONISM THESE DAYS (2019)
    • Meat Puppets – Dusty Notes (2019)
    • MEAT PUPPETS Drummer Derrick Bostom Discusses the New Album ‘Dusty Notes’, Nirvana, John Frusciante, and Their Unmistakable Musical Legacy (2019)
    • Dusty notes, de Meat Puppets (2019)
    • But Then I Saw Meat Puppets (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Creating Art, Then and Now (2019)
    • an interview w/ Meat Puppets on original lineup reunion, new album & more (2019)
    • Meat Puppets to perform May 17 at 3S Artspace (2019)
    • THE TOUR (2019)
    • Live Report: Meat Puppets - Rebellion, Manchester (2019)
    • Meat Puppets: Our 1986 Interview (2019)
    • Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in NY Is 25: The Meat Puppets & Bobcat Goldthwait Take Us Back (2019)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets says they've recaptured the chaos as reunion tour comes home (2019)
  • 2018
    • Catching Up With Derrick Bostrom: The Meat Puppets' Original Drummer Dishes on His Return (2018)
    • Meat Puppets Reunite With Original Drummer (2018)
    • In A Car by Jeff Schroeck (2018)
    • Meat Puppets Come Galloping Out Of The Stable With 'Warranty' (2018)
  • 2017
    • MEAT PUPPETS MAKE NOSTALGIC RETURN TO THE ECHO FOR SOLD OUT LA GIG (2017)
    • REVIEW: The Meat Puppets' sold-out show Monday was a mighty, messy joy (2017)
    • My Meat Puppets Misconception at The Echo (2017)
    • Meat Puppets’ Cris Kirkwood Was Shot in the Back and Imprisoned: Life's Magical (2017)
    • Concert review: Meat Puppets show why they’re alt-rockers for the ages (2017)
    • Meat Puppets Together for First Time in more than 20 Years (2017)
  • 2016
    • Meat Puppet Cris Kirkwood talks pre-Germs Phoenix cult band Exterminators’ 1st-ever LP (interview + song premiere) (2016)
    • The drugs that fueled the Meat Puppets’ first five LPs (2016)
    • Meat Puppets Bassist On What He Would Like For Christmas (2016)
  • 2015
    • Interview: Elmo Kirkwood Talks Meat Puppets, STP 1994 Tour & New Dance Project Supr3yes (2015)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets’ Shandon Sahm Talks Upcoming Tour With Soul Asylum (2015)
    • Gene Simmons ‘Hugely Influenced’ Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, According To Meat Puppets Drummer (2015)
    • Meat Puppets Drummer Was Told He ‘Most Likely Won’t See Scott Weiland, But The Other Guys Hang Out’ When Touring With STP (2015)
    • EASY ANSWERS: CRIS KIRKWOOD OF THE MEAT PUPPETS TALKS GRATEFUL DEAD (2015)
  • 2014
    • 2 Minutes with Meat Puppets (2014)
    • The AU Interview: Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (Arizona) (2014)
    • Meat Puppets Bassist Cris Kirkwood Takes Us Through the Evolution of ‘Lake of Fire’ (2014)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood Talks Nirvana MTV Unplugged & Band With Krist Novoselic (2014)
    • Meat Puppets Making Most of a Second Chance (2014)
    • Fresh Meat With No Strings Attached: Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2014)
    • Cris Kirkwood Remembers Comforting Frances Bean Cobain At Nirvana MTV Unplugged, Talks Art (2014)
    • Nirvana's 'MTV Unplugged' 20 Years Later: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood Looks Back (2014)
    • The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood Talks About His Love for Disney and Old Musicals (2014)
    • Elmo Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets Has Pop Ambitions (2014)
    • The Most Influential Arizona Punk Records: #5 - Meat Puppets, Untitled Seven-Inch EP (2014)
    • Graded on a Curve: Meat Puppets, Lollipop (2014)
  • 2013
    • Meat Puppets Announce New Album Rat Farm SEt for April 2013 Release (2013)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Announce UK Tour In June 2013 With Mudhoney (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Expand with Rat Farm (2013)
    • Too High To Die: Meet The Meat Puppets by Greg Prato (2013)
    • The Meat Puppets are Still Rockin' (2013)
    • More Meaty Music from the Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Let Instinct Pull the Strings (2013)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets (2013)
    • 20 Questions: Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Interview: Meat Puppets - The Flesh of It (2013)
    • Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets : Interview (2013)
    • Exclusive Interview: Meat Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood on His Relationship with His Brother, Nirvana, and Touring 30 Years Later (2013)
    • Meat Puppets I: “A Lawn Mower in the Process of Unclogging Itself” (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Now 31 Years Since First Album (2013)
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood: I'm probably not cut out for a regular job (2013)
    • Esquire Live Sessions: The Meat Puppets on Their Nirvana Unplugged Performance (2013)
    • Long-Haul Grunge Gods (2013)
    • The Mystery of Meat (2013)
    • Phoenix Artist Derrick Bostrom Opens Photography Exhibit at Green New American Vegetarian (2013)
    • The Meat Puppets on Unplugged In New York: The Extended Interviews The full Q&As with the Brothers Kirkwood and producer Alex Coletti. (2013)
    • Interview with Curt and Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets: Influences, Live, Playing with Nirvana, 20th Anniversary of In Utero (2013)
    • Meat Puppets Interview: Louder Than War Talk To Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • Talk: Curt Kirkwood, Meat Puppets | Interview (2013)
    • Meat Puppets [Interview] (2013)
    • My People Call It Weed: Meat Puppets Get Happily Twisted (2013)
    • 2 Minutes with Meat Puppets (2013)
    • Meat Puppets – At The Rat Farm With Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • Meat Puppets: Just a Band (2013)
  • 2012
    • Peer Inside the Colorful World of the Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood at Carly's Bistro (2012)
    • Finding Out What Makes the Meat Puppets Tick with a New Oral History (2012)
    • Curled Up with a Good Book (2012)
    • Los Históricos Meat Puppets Avanzarán en Diciembre Nuevos Temas de su Próximo Disco en su Primera Gira Española (2012)
    • Meat Puppets Announce Release of 14th Studio LP (2012)
    • Curt Kirkwood nos habla de Meat Puppets (2012)
    • La Semilla del "Grunge" (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Las Raices y el Punk que Marcaron a Kurt Cobain (2012)
    • Mas Raros que un Perro Verde (2012)
    • Meat Puppets (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Valencia, 18/12/2012 (2012)
    • Meat Puppets, Influx Emocional (2012)
    • Valley’s Elmo Kirkwood and His Dad, Meat Puppet’s Curt Kirkwood, to Team Up For Father’s Day Show (2012)
    • Too High to Die: an Interview With Curt Kirkwood (2012)
  • 2011
    • Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood on Making New Album 'Lollipop' and Their Summer Plans Plus: Band 'completely inebriated' while recording 'Meat Puppets II' (2011)
    • Meat Puppets with Roky Erickson (2011)
    • One Tough Question: Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood (2011)
    • Shandon Sahm Meets Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Relive Gonzo Past, Open Up about Cris Kirkwood's Addiction (2011)
    • eMusic Q&A: The Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Meat Puppets: "We Built 'Lollipop' Like a Lego Toy" (2011)
    • Tonight: The Meat Puppets on the River (2011)
    • Curt Kirkwood's Tinker Toy Still Life with the Meat Puppets (2011)
    • Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets on the Band's Legacy and His Vivid Lyrical Imagery (2011)
    • Fans Hope for a Well-Done Meat Puppets Performance (2011)
    • Headed Back to the Slaughterhouse (2011)
    • The Meat Puppets Kill Chelsea's (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Survivor's Tale (2011)
    • The Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood (2011)
    • Q&A: Meat Puppets' Curt Kirkwood On Arizona Punk, SST Records, His Brother Cris Being Clean, and Not making it into "Our Band Could Be Your Life" (2011)
    • Meat Puppets Interviewed by Most Beautiful Losers (2011)
    • [LP Review] Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets (1982) (2011)
  • 2010
    • Interview: Cris Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets (2010)
    • TS5Q: Derrick Bostrom (2010)
    • Meat Puppets 1982-88: Acid Rock Baked by Desert Grunge (2010)
    • MEAT PUPPETS 1982-88: Acid rock baked by desert grunge (2010)
  • 2009
    • Q&A with the Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Sewing it Together (2009)
    • Reunited Meat Puppets Evolved, But Still Intense (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Interview (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets' Name is Cool, and That's the Entire Story Behind It (2009)
    • Meat Puppets on Display (2009)
    • Lost in the Zone [Meat Puppets] (2009)
    • Interview with Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets are still half-assin' it After All These Years (2009)
    • Meat Puppets Still "Sewn Together" After Nearly Three Decades (2009)
    • Rock City: Tourist Stop Helped Get Meat Puppets Frontman's Artistic Juices Flowing (2009)
    • Curt Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets Speaks (2009)
    • Q&A with Shandon Sahm of Meat Puppets (2009)
    • Meat Puppets: "We Got to Do What We Wanted to Do" (2009)
    • The Meat Puppets (2009)
    • From the Chip Midnight Archive: Meat Puppets 1994 Audio Interview (2009)
    • A Testament to the Strength of the Human Gullet (2009)
    • Meat Puppets: Out Of The Weeds (2009)
    • No robots, no Celine Dion for Meat Puppets (2009)
  • 2008
    • Very Human (2008)
  • 2007
    • Meat Puppets Get a Major-Label Education (2007)
    • Meat Puppets Return to Their Trippy Psych-Rock Roots (2007)
    • Meat Puppets: On Your Feet (2007)
    • Lake of Fire: Meat Puppets Rise to Their Knees (2007)
    • Meat Puppets Reviewed (2007)
    • Reunited in Rock (2007)
    • New Day Rising (2007)
    • Reunited Kirkwood Brothers Help Meat Puppets Rise to the Occasion (2007)
    • Meat Puppets (2007)
    • Meat Puppets: O Brother, Where Art Thou (2007)
    • Who's Got My Extra: Curt Kirkwood (2007)
    • Stereogum Q&A: Meat Puppets (2007)
    • Back on the Sun (2007)
    • Interview: Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets (2007)
    • A Lean Night for the Meat Puppets (2007)
  • 2006
    • Meat Puppets Spring 1984 (2006)
  • 2005
    • Curt Kirkwood, "Snow" (2005)
  • 2002
    • Derrick Bostrom - 2002 (2002)
  • 2001
    • Puppet Show (2001)
  • 2000
    • Meat Puppets: Back From the Lake of Fire, the "New" Meat Puppets Feel the Love (2000)
    • Golden Lies (2000)
    • Meat Puppets Desert Desperados (2000)
  • 1999
    • What is This? (1999)
    • Fresh Meat for Rotting Puppets (1999)
    • Meat Puppets’ Cris Kirkwood Jailed On Drug Charges (1999)
  • 1998
    • Shooting Star (1998)
  • 1995
    • Meat Puppets: Swimming in a Lake of Fire (1995)
    • Meat Puppets: The Morning After (There's No Business Like Show Business) (1995)
    • The Meat Puppets (1995)
  • 1994
    • Rockers for Pot '94 (1994)
    • Meat Puppets' Drummer Derrick Bostrom Interview from 1994 (1994)
    • A Vignette from the Early Years by Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets (1994)
  • 1992
    • Meat Puppets: Cris Kirkwood Interview (1992)
  • 1991
    • Music Meat Puppets (1991)
  • 1989
    • Meat Puppets Interviewed (1989): Disney Avant-Metal Rock (1989)
  • 1987
    • Meat Puppets--Mirage (1987)
  • 1984
    • The Meat Puppets (1984)
    • Meat Puppets: The Ultimate Fusion Band (1984)
  • 1983
    • Meat Puppets (1983)
  • 1982
    • I Met the Meat Puppets and Lived to Tell About It (1982)
  • Audio-Video Articles and Interviews
    • 2019 >
      • MEAT PUPPETS Derrick Bostrom talks new material (2019)
      • The Making of "Dusty Notes" (2019)
      • Kyle Meredith with... Meat Puppets (2019)
      • Pianist Ron Stabinsky Interview with Rusty Hassan WPFW (2019)
      • Meat Puppets Dusty Notes CD unpackaging (2019)
      • Radio Phoenix Broadcast of It’s Not Our Fault: Derrick Bostrom Part One (2019)
      • 100 Meat Puppets "Mirage"w/ Derrick Bostrom (2019)
    • 2018 >
      • 013: Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (1991) (2018)
    • 2017 >
      • RSR077 – DERRICK BOSTROM – THE MEAT PUPPETS & NIRVANA (2017)
      • Meat Puppets albums worst to best (2017)
      • Meat Puppets - Induction Video Az.Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame (2017)
      • Acoustic Storm on KSLX Radio Promo for the Meat Puppets (2017)
    • 2016 >
      • Episode 12: Meat Puppets and Peter Kuper By Westerino Show (2016)
      • Interview Sneak Peak with Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2016)
    • 2015 >
      • Cris Kirkwood Interview (2015)
      • Dad Rock: Cris Kirkwood on life in Meat Puppets (2015)
    • 2014 >
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 1 (2014)
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 2 (2014)
      • Meat Puppets - Cherry Rock 2014 - Part 3 (2014)
      • The Meat Puppets Q & A @ Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne (27th May 2014) (2014)
      • Meat Puppets Documentary -- Rough Pass (2014)
    • 2013 >
      • Curt Kirkwood Interview w/ Larry Flick (2013)
      • Meat Puppets Concert Review/Album Showing (2013)
      • Meat Puppets - Interview (Bing Lounge) (2013)
      • WTF with Marc Maron, Episode 428 - Curt Kirkwood (2013)
    • 2012 >
      • The Andy Derer Show Ep #51 with Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets (2012)
    • 2011 >
      • Q&A with the Meat Puppets (2011)
      • Meat Puppets Interview Live in the Bing Lounge (2011)
      • Interview with Cris from Meat Puppets (2011)
      • The Meat Puppets interview w/ Across The Board radio show.wmv (2011)
    • 2010 >
      • Meat Puppets - What's In My Bag? (2010)
      • Meat Puppets: Bumbershoot 2010 Interview (2010)
    • 2009 >
      • Serene Dominic Show Episode 11 with Meat Puppets Curt Kirkwood (2009)
      • Amplified from ABC News Now : Meat Puppets (2009)
      • Amplified from ABC News Now : Meat Puppets, Part 2 (2009)
      • MEAT PUPPETS Interview and Soundcheck "Legendary Status.. Should Inspire Massive Guilt" (2009)
      • Meat Puppets Interview (2009)
    • 2008 >
      • Tempe Music Festival TV - Meat Puppets (2008)
    • 2007 >
      • How the Meat Puppets got their Name (2007)
    • 2005 >
      • Curt Kirkwood Interview (2005)
    • 1995 >
      • Meat Puppets Interview (1995)
      • Meat Puppets on Howard Stern, 9/11/95 (1995)
    • 1994 >
      • Meat Puppets - Conan 1994 (1994)
      • Cris Kirtwood Interview of The Meat Puppets May 26th, 1994 (1994)
      • Meat puppets interview 1994 (1994)
    • 1988 >
      • Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Interview Segment (1988)
      • 1988 Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) Full Interview (1988)
    • 1984 >
      • Meat Puppets, 1984, Music View w/ Todd Miller (1984)
The Meat Puppets Unveil Their ‘Dusty Notes’
Released by: Megaforce
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Genre: alt-rock, alt-country
Links: 
The Meat Puppets Official Website
Line-up:
Curt Kirkwood – lead vocals, guitar
Cris Kirkwood – bass guitar, backing vocals
Derrick Bostrom – drums
Troy Meiss – guitar
Elmo Kirkwood – guitar
Ron Stabinsky – keyboards
Tracklist:
1. Warranty
2. Nine Pins
3. On
4. Unfrozen Memory
5. Dusty Notes
6. The Great Awakening
7. Sea of Heartbreak
8. Nightcap
9. Vampyr’s Winged Fantasy
10. Outflow
What started as a group of friends exploring punk rock on the back of 70s psychedelia, soon became one of the most significant bands of American underground music. Drummer Derrick Bostrom explains, “We began to make such a hellacious racket that we knew we were on to something.” Formed in 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona, the Meat Puppets are band known for influencing the likes of Nirvana and Soundgarden, among others from the alternative rock and grunge movement of the 90s. Achieving the height of their success on the back of their guest performance at Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, the band’s Too High to Die album, released in 1994, became their most successful release to date. Having broken up twice, in 1996 and 2002, the band reunited in 2006 and has been making music together ever since.  When the band was inducted into the Arizona Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2017, the original line-up was brought back together for the first time in over twenty years. Performing a set of classics, it was clear that the band still had its original chemistry. “It was so intense that even I couldn’t deny it! I remembered why we did this. It was magical,” explains Bostrom, with Cris adding, “It was the psychedelic fuckin’ time machine… Mind-blowing.”
It was this moment that has led to the creation of Dusty Notes, the first album to feature the original line-up since 1995’s No Joke! A unique and inspired album that is difficult to fit into any one genre, Dusty Notes takes the band into new directions while harnessing the energy that made them such a fantastic band to listen to in the first place. Curt explains that the album is made up of “simple yet engaging songs,” adding that “I can ignore my vocal and listen to the other four guys play, they’re all so good.” Discussing the return to form, Derrick said, “The band has been a really, really deep font of creativity. Love it or hate it, hit or miss, Curt is just prodigious. They are still living the rock lifestyle; they’re not doing it by half measures. They stayed on the road. These guys are uncompromising. I consider the Meat Puppets to be a national treasure.”
This uncompromising attitude can be heard, and genuinely felt in the honesty of the song writing. Opening with ‘Warranty’, it has a sound that harkens to CSNY’s ‘Teach Your Children Well’ and yet echoes the Meat Puppets classic sound. It lets you know that you’re in for something a bit different. That was always their strength, and this track cleverly illustrates that this a return to form for the band.
Woven through the album are alt-country riffs and rhythms backed by psychedelic and alternative rock sensibilities. While it shouldn’t work, it creates a style and texture in the music that provides a strong sense of the creative flair and dynamism that was poured into every track on Dusty Notes. Second track on the album, ‘Nine Pins’ opens with a quirky organ and banjo going around and around as this song spins its magic with all the charm of classic Americana updated with alt-rock riffs and choral vocals.
These songs are followed by the wistful ‘On’, ‘Unfrozen Memory’ with its subtle folk textures, upbeat and bouncy title track ‘Dusty Notes’, psychedelic ‘The Great Awakening’, Dylanesque ‘Sea of Hearbreak’, and the positively vibrant ‘Nightcap’  before breaking down into ‘Vampyr’s Winged Fantasy’. This dark and broody track is a stark contrast to the rest of the album, with its heavy alt-rock psychedelic riffs screeching out like an echo of classic Meat Puppets. After the languid melodies of the previous tracks, it comes as a bit of a shock to the system, before it drops back down into a mellow vibe with ‘Outflow’.
Dusty Notes truly stands out against the backdrop of the current state of the rock industry. It has all the elements to inspire a new generation of musicians to look beyond what is expected of them and experiment with new sounds and new ideas. Given the history of the band, I would expect nothing less. If you are looking for a unique experience that broadens your musical horizons, then Dusty Notes is the album for you.
Ratings: 9/10
Written by: Erik De’Viking
My Global Mind – Reviewer / Music Journalist
Erik De’Viking is a London based freelance music journalist. His musical interests include blues, rock, and metal in all its forms, and he is constantly on the lookout for new bands and genres to discover and later preach about to the masses.
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