Holy crap, the Meat Puppets are reuniting, sorta. And I mean, you can get cynical about yet another 80's indie institution reuniting, but bear in mind that for the past ten years few people have held out hope that Cris Kirkwood would even still be alive at this point, so the whole thing makes me kind of happy and hopeful. Also Curt's quotes in that article are kind of hilariously defensive (I imagine him saying stuff like "I honestly think these are good songs...I don't think this is going to be some sort of 'toss off' album" completely unprompted and to the interviewer's bewilderment). I guess people might cry foul that Bostrom isn't involved, but Herb from Primus sounds like a good enough replacement. The whole Meat Puppets 2.0 debacle is best forgotten about, and I never really heard Eyes Adrift or Volcano, but in retrospect I wish I'd been more positive in my review of Curt Kirkwood's Snow, he definitely still has some good songs in him, and I'm kinda looking forward to hearing the brothers harmonize again.

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