When Meat Puppets released their second album in 1984, few would have predicted just how transformative it would be.

Bassist Cris Kirkwood and drummer Derrick Bostrom met in high school in Phoenix and started their first punk band, Atomic Bomb Club, in the late ’70s. Cris Kirkwood’s older brother Curt joined on ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the Meat Puppets’ 1984 album, a sun-baked, ...

What do you do when the music industry sucks you in, helps you garner a hit single, chews you up and then spits you out? What do you do when after five years on hiatus, you bring your band back on the ...