Meat Puppets

SST Records Legend and Music Scribe Joe Carducci on His New Book and Throwing Sonic Youth's Cassette Into the Demo Pile in 1985

By Brad Cohan Joe Carducci not only played a monumental role in helping run and co-own SST Records in its glorious 1980's heyday when Black Flag, Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and Meat Puppets were the reigning kings of the Amerindie underground, but he also famously penned the lyrics for the Minutemen's ... More >>

Q&A: Keith Morris Of OFF! On Greg Ginn, The Black Flag Days And SST Records

Keith Morris, a few years shy of 60, remains typically snotty as hell, with trademark grimy dreads hanging from a head splotched with bald spots. But he also happens to be one happy camper. The iconoclastic ex-Black Flag bawler—whose bratty freak-puke was on SST Records' initial release (the N ... More >>

Q&A: Sebadoh & Dinosaur Jr.'s Lou Barlow On '80s Hardcore, Signing With SST Records And How Evil J Mascis Used To Be

via Sub Pop RecordsSebadoh.​The staggering gamut of cred Lou Barlow boasts in the hardcore, post-punk, lo-fi and indie rock realms toes past the line of the ridiculous and the legendary. In the early '80s, Barlow obliterated his guitar in the cataclysmic Massachusetts hardcore band Deep Wound ... More >>

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

​The Meat Puppets' thirty-year journey can be divided into a trio of disparate trajectories: the mind-melting Deadhead-cum-hardcore desert-rock genius of their SST Records years (1982-89); the glossy, muscular grunge-lite of the successful major-label stint they enjoyed in the 90's (thanks in ... More >>

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Q&A: Helen Money's Alison Chesley On Her One-Woman Cello Band, Covering The Minutemen And Touring with Shellac

If any one-woman band can eclipse the delightfully volatile presence of Steve Albini and his stature in the annals of Amerindie rock and scrumptious food bloggery, it's the cerebral and dissonant classi-punk Helen Money, who's opening for Shellac at the Bell House tonight and tomorrow night. Helen M ... More >>

Q&A: dos' Kira On The Physicality Of Bass Playing, Her Definition Of "Punk," And Why Duos Should Stay Duos

​When the subject of women in punk and rock is broached, the usual suspects often come up: Kim Gordon, Kathleen Hanna, Patti Smith, Kim Deal and Debbie Harry. The injustice here is how punk-rock bassist Kira (born Kira Roessler) is rarely mentioned in the same breath—not that she cares m ... More >>

Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

Download: Soft Circle, "Treading Water"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Hisham Bharoocha has been the reigning Brooklyn blissout champ since his days pummeling tom-toms in Black Dice's dreamiest epoch. His solo project, Soft Circle, debuted in 2006 as a platform for fea ... More >>

Q&A: Japandroids' Brian King on Their Single Series, Disappointing PJ Harvey, and That Siren Festival Rumor

A pair of late bloomers, guitarist/vocalist Brian King and drummer/vocalist David Prowse had never been in a band before they graduated from the University of Victoria and started chaffing against responsible adulthood and career jobs. Which meant that when the Canadian duo formed Japandroids--pr ... More >>

PSYCHIC WEIRDO

Ariel Pink sees the future

A Nightlife (And Ice-Skating) Enthusiast's Guide To Thanksgiving Eve

NYC is a town of transplants, a fact that's never more obvious than during the holiday season. While thousands of New Yorkers take off work early and spend hours upon hours in traffic, at the airport, and stuck in train stations, we think those of you who are left in town should make the most of i ... More >>

Dark Meat+Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt (CMJ)

Tonight! Northside Festival, Fleetwood Mac, Meat Puppets

The first inaugural Northside Festival brings CMJ-style pandemonium to Williamsburg and Greenpoint, starting tonight. Ewok Village-natives Naybob and Raybob Shineywater of Brightblack Morning Light headline the opening gala at Studio B. The Music Hall of Williamsburg's sold out Hold Steady show a ... More >>

Meat Puppets+Retribution Gospel Choir

Fear

SST to BKLYN: Joe Carducci Speaks!

A rare chance to meet the pioneering punk producer.

Reprising a Classic Built to Spill Record, For Good and Ill

Perfect From Now On gets all spilt on some green

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

Interview: Beth Murphy of Times New Viking

"Perfect From Now On" Is the Best Built to Spill Album

CMJ Day Three: Making the Most of Shitty Options

CMJ Day 1.5: Thurston Moore Vs. the iPhone

New Day Rising

Another sloppy, improbable, warmly welcome resurgence for the Meat Puppets

Some of Us Really Like Icky Thump

'Voice' Cover Racist?

TV on the Radio guy thinks so

Where You Been

Alt-rock pioneers Dinosaur Jr. return to the freak scene as seniors

Breaking All the House Rules Until Your Head Cracks Open

The Naked and the Cred

Filler Bummer Hummers in the Hot White Summer With a Midlife Diplomat

CMJ Musicfest 2002

Music

Another Foster's Sunrise

Getting Their Hands Dirty

Michael Azerrad Chronicles Indie Rock His Way

Roto-Roots Rock Flushes Your Troubles Down the Drain

As Not Seen on TV!

Lifting Up the Sun