SOUNDCHECK: Meat Puppets
Friday, September 25, 2026 · 7:00 PM MST · Phoenix Art Museum · Phoenix, AZ
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SOUNDCHECK is back. One Friday per month from 7–8 pm, Phoenix Art Museum transforms into a live-music venue, hosting raw, can’t-miss performances from the Southwest’s top acts. Season one brought you 76th Street, fearofmakingout, and The Phoenix Symphony. Season two goes bigger with Arizona Hall of Fame recipients, Meat Puppets. Formed in Phoenix in the early 1980s, the Meat Puppets turned punk's creative freedom loose on country, psychedelia, and Southwestern desert weirdness, making landmark albums like Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun before Kurt Cobain brought brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood onstage for Nirvana's MTV Unplugged and introduced them to a generation. More than 40 years in, the founding trio is back together, joined by keyboardist Ron Stabinsky and guitarist Elmo Kirkwood. As drummer Derrick Bostrom puts it, "This doesn't feel like an oldies act. It feels like the culmination." Tickets include all-day access to the Museum. The performance will be held outside in our Sculpture Garden, rain or shine.
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