Meat Puppets go live at the Marquee Theater on Sept. 16

September 6, 10:31 AMPhoenix Performing Arts ExaminerDouglas McDaniel

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The Meat Puppets, a Phoenix- and Tempe-based band, is on tour in support of a new album, "Sewn Together," is fresh off playing at Red Rocks in Denver with Ween, and will perform in Phoenix at the Marquee Theater at 8 p.m. Sept. 16.

Yes, that  wing of the state's legacy for heat-stroked grunge with hippy-billy leanings, the Meat Puppets, seems to be making an authoritative comeback now. The Meat Puppets have slowly been getting back on its feet for nearly a decade, but in a form that sounds more super-solid now with a new drummer and the Kirkwood brothers fully functioning.

As usual these days, the Puppets are best kept track of through their MySpace ink, but long-time fans might like to peruse the Meatpuppets.com link, maintained by former drummer Derrick Bostrom, for a lot of curious, even heady information on the band's history.

The Meat Puppets are most remembered for being one of the musical inspirations for the late Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, but more than that, for its ferocious, if dissassembling style of psycho-punk-a-delia as rendered in this video of one of their best-loved nuggets, "Lake of Fire."

-- Douglas McDaniel