

![]() Trevor Hall 09/10/10 With:Cas Haley |
![]() Hayes Carll 09/11/10 With:Bonnie Whitmore |
![]() You, Me, and Everyone We Know 09/13/10 With:Queens Club Take Cover History On Repeat |
![]() Hot Hot Heat 09/14/10 With:22-20s Hey Rosetta! |
- Zzzzzzzzzz 09/18/10 With:Cleo's Apartment Dresden Style The Jerkels |
![]() Jen Gloeckner 09/19/10 With:Angie Mattson |
![]() Dax Riggs 09/21/10 With:Tyborn Jig Sad Fuck's |
![]() Tony Furtado 09/25/10 |
![]() Scout Niblett 09/26/10 With:Land of Blood and Sunshine Pennyhawk Statocyst |
![]() Tim Kasher (of Cursive/The Good Life) 09/27/10 With:Cashes Rivers Parlours |
![]() Emmitt-Nershi Band 09/29/10 With:Mr. Baber's Neighbors |
![]() Retribution Gospel Choir 09/30/10 With:Why Make Clocks Wolves In The Attic |
![]() Stanton Moore Trio plus Anders Osborne 09/30/10 With:Anders Osborne |
![]() The Strange Boys 10/01/10 With:Gentleman Jesse and His Men Natural Child The Jitz |
![]() Jason Reeves 10/06/10 With:Joe Brooks |
![]() Iwrestledabearonce 10/07/10 With:Sky Eats Airplane The Chariot Chelsea Grin Vanna |
![]() Backyard Tire Fire 10/08/10 With:Monday Mourners |
![]() Agnostic Front 10/09/10 With:Mother of Mercy New Lows Crusader Knuckled Down |
![]() The Black Dahlia Murder 10/13/10 With:Goatwhore Arkaik |
![]() Tyler Hilton 10/20/10 With:Josiah Leming |
![]() Joan of Arc 10/28/10 With:Love Songs For Lonely Monsters Noremac McCarthy |
![]() Electric Six 11/02/10 With:The Constellations The Jitz Kinky Kyro spinning records |
![]() The Ghost Inside 11/07/10 With:First Blood A Loss For Words Deez Nuts Hundredth |
Out of all of the bands that made SST Records a towering force in the American underground during the mid-'80s, the Meat Puppets lasted the longest, surviving where other bands fell apart. The Meat Puppets never had the dedicated following of Hüsker Dü or the Minutemen — two fellow SST bands who played the same circuit as the Puppets — but they were able to carve out a long career where other hardcore bands could not, because they always drew from conventional hard rock as well as punk. Not only did they play hard, loud, and fast, but they also had elements of the blues-rock of ZZ Top, the ambling folk-rock of the Grateful Dead, and Neil Young's country-rock and hard rock. As they grew older, the band matured musically, developing an accomplished instrumental technique and moving closer to the traditional hard rock that was always underneath their punk. But they never quite abandoned their punk roots, even when they briefly broke into the mainstream in the early '90s.