Vintage alt rockers Meat Puppets are prepping the upcoming release of their latest studio album, Lollipop, their 13th in a long and very influential career. (FYI: Kurt Cobain was one of their biggest fans.) Recently, the Phoenix-born trio dropped the album’s first single, “Damn Thing” (via SlicingUpEyeballs). With the droning melancholic vocals of brothers and founding members Cris & Curt Kirkwood standing at the forefront of a simple, guitar-based melody, the track is unmistakably Meat Puppets. No wonder they’ve been around for years.
Lollipop is scheduled for release on April 12th via Megaforce Records. Peep the mp3 and tracklist below.
In other Meat Puppets-related news, the band is scheduled to make an appearance South By Southwest Festival, where they’ll play alongside Roky Erickson. After that, they’ll make their way to Europe for their first tour in almost 20 years. All confirmed dates can be found listed below.
Lollipop Tracklist:
01. Incomplete
02. Orange
03. Shave It
04. Baby Don’t
05. Hour of the Idiot
06. Lantern
07. Town
08. Damn Thing
09. Amazing
10. Way That It Are
11. Vile
12. The Spider and The Spaceship
Meat Puppets 2011 Tour Dates:
03/19 – Austin, TX @ South By Southwest Festival #
05/13-14 – Somerset, UK @ All Tomorrow’s Parties
05/16 – Dusseldorf, DE @ Zakk
05/17 – Berlin, DE @ Magnet Club
05/18 – Antwerpen, BE @ Trix Club
05/19 – Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg
05/21 – Brescia, IT @ Latte & Live
05/22 – Livorno, IT @ The Cage Theater
05/24 – Vienna, AT @ Szene Vien
05/25 – Munich, DE @ Substanz
05/27 – Hamburg, DE @ Knust
05/28 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
05/30 – London, UK @ The Garage
05/31 – Dublin, IE @ The Button Factory
# = w/ Roky Erickson
