Meat Puppets Show

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SOUNDCHECK Season 2 | Phoenix Art Museum

The Meat Puppets will play at the Phoenix Art Museum on Sept. 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM as part of the museum’s Soundcheck live music series.

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.

Ticket information