Friday’s Leftovers: Return of the Meat Puppets

After 11 years the Kirkwood brothers have once again reunited, and they’ve released a new Meat Puppets album entitled Rise to Your Knees. Scott Mervis of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette does a fine job profiling the Meat Puppets rise and fall: The piece includes a wide-ranging interview with Curt Kirkwood. Kirkwood discusses opening for Phish and Blues Traveler as the Meat Puppets prepare to play moe.down in Turin, NY next weekend. But what else is goin’ on? Let’s take a look…

Will Sunday’s show in London be the last Rolling Stones concert ever?
Eddie Vedder will perform at the world premiere of the Body of War documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11
Thievery Corporation, Spoon and Modest Mouse are headlining the inaugural outing of the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco Bay
Broken Social Scene has been added to the lineup of Sunday’s Revenge of the Book Eaters concert at the Beacon Theater
Jenny Lewis and Neko Case are two redheads taking the alt-rock scene by storm
Dickie Betts and Great Southern impressed during a recent gig in Buffalo
Cold War Kids are playing a tour that will hit all of the major cities in November and December
In a sure sign of things to come, Comcast has started sabotaging their user’s bit torrent connections
Slash lists his five favorite guitar solos
Lefsetz feels the same way about The Eagles’ new album as I do
Wilco’s Nels Cline discusses the adult chicken pox that took him out of action for a while
The songlist for the Rock Band video game is growing larger and larger
Paul McCartney is releasing a 3 DVD set filled with concert footage and music videos from his solo career on November 13th
Morrissey refused a $75 million offer to reunite The Smiths