Meat Puppets Announce Live EP & US Tour Dates With Mudhoney

The Meat Puppets are one of those bands that you just have to experience live to really appreciate. With the May 6th release of Meat Puppets Live Manchester 2019, the Meat Puppets deliver an album that captures their current five-piece incarnation in full flight. In support of their most recent album, Dusty Notes, the Meat Puppets hit the road across the US and Europe in 2019, during the band’s run of shows, they met up with videographer Yousef Sheikh and his crew, who not only captured a multi-track audio recording of the band during its show in Manchester, UK but also created a multi-camera video production of the evening. The band posted some of it during their pandemic-imposed two-year hiatus from touring, and when Darron Hemann of DC-Jam Records offered to release a limited-edition six-song picture disc based on the material, they jumped at the opportunity.

The band worked with Yousef and Derek O’Brien of DOB Sound on half a dozen tracks, which highlight the amazing improvisational passages they crafted while on the road. With updated versions of such Meat Puppets classics as Up On The Sun, Plateau, Seal Whales and Lake of Fire, the old-timers relive their glory days of getting lost in sound. And loyalists will appreciate Nine Pins, a new track from Dusty Notes. For folks who haven’t seen the Meat Puppets in a while, this is a great reintroduction. For those who have been waiting to see them on their rescheduled May 2022 co-headlining tour with Mudhoney, it’s a great preview.