{"id":1019491,"date":"2026-08-23T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:27:15","slug":"meat-puppets-to-kick-off-phoenix-art-museum-fall-music-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1019491\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Puppets to kick off Phoenix Art Museum fall music series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than four decades after emerging from Phoenix\u2019s wonderfully unruly underground music scene, the Meat Puppets will play another hometown show this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The influential Arizona band will perform an unplugged set Friday, Sept. 25, at Phoenix Art Museum, opening the second season of the museum\u2019s monthly SOUNDCHECK concert series. The 7 p.m. performance showcases founding members Curt Kirkwood, Cris Kirkwood and Derrick Bostrom in the very city whose punk scene helped launch one of alternative rock\u2019s more unconventional careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t feel like an oldies act,\u201d Bostrom said of the reunited founding lineup in a Phoenix Art Museum press release announcing the show. \u201cIt feels like the culmination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than four decades after emerging from Phoenix\u2019s wonderfully unruly underground music scene, the Meat Puppets will play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1019492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,11878,344917,1589,49503,408014,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1019491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-live-music","tag-meat-puppets","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-art-museum","tag-sst-records","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117146239367915502","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}